Parking Rules in Carson, CA (2026)

Carson Municipal Code §§ 3255.1, 3255.2

"Oversized vehicle" means any vehicle or combination of attached vehicles that exceeds twenty (20) feet in length, eighty (80) inches in width, or eighty-five (85) inches in height (exclusive of lights, mirrors, antennas, or other legal projections), including, but not limited to, motor homes, recreational vehicles, trailers, boats, truck tractors, decommissioned mail trucks, and fifth-wheel t...

Carson Municipal Code § 9162.3(A)

Driveways, sidewalks, and paving shall not cover more than thirty-five (35) percent of a required front yard setback for residential property with a single-car driveway, fifty (50) percent for a two-car driveway, and forty (40) percent for a driveway where the garage does not face a public street. For the purposes of this Section, paving for parking shall include that portion of the required fr...

Carson Municipal Code § 3254.2

The parking of any commercial vehicle with a gross weight of over six thousand (6,000) pounds, length of over twenty-five (25) feet, or width of over ninety-six (96) inches (total outside width of vehicle or load or combined) is prohibited at all times on any street in the City of Carson except: (a) At locations and for the time period authorized by City Council and posted by the Public Works D...

Carson Municipal Code § 3220

The traffic enforcement agency shall remove to a safe place every vehicle which has been parked or left standing upon a public street or alley for seventy-two (72) or more consecutive hours without being moved under its own motive power more than one (1) block. (b) Vehicles displaying a current and valid resident or accessibility oversized vehicle parking permit are exempt from this limitati...

Carson Municipal Code § 3251.11(d)

If a parking stall or space is posted in accordance with subsection (c) of this Section, a person shall not park or leave standing a vehicle in the stall or space unless the vehicle is connected for electric charging purposes. A person shall not obstruct, block, or otherwise bar access to parking stalls or spaces so posted except for the purpose of charging and parking a vehicle that is connect...

Carson Municipal Code §§ 4501, 4513

...the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof, on private or public property not including highways ... is hereby declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. ... It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to abandon, park, store or leave ... any vehicle, or part ...

Carson Municipal Code § 63130

Permit Fee $50.00. No person shall paint, stencil or otherwise mark upon any curb, street, roadway, highway, or sidewalk any housing number or address without first obtaining an annual permit to do so. ... No person shall ... mark a street or house number on a curb ... without first obtaining the written consent of the person owning or occupying the premises adjacent thereto. Any numerals paint...

Carson Municipal Code § 3252.1(a)

Commercial loading zones may be established to permit loading or unloading of persons or goods for the time necessary to do so, but in no event for more than twenty (20) minutes and only between 6:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. each day. Such spaces shall be signed or identified with yellow curb paint. (b) A passenger loading zone shall permit stopping only for loading or unloading of persons for the...

Carson Municipal Code § 32502.2

Proceedings for establishment of a preferential parking zone may be initiated by petition containing the signatures of at least sixty (60) percent of the residents of all units of occupancy fronting curbs proposed to be included in the zone. The petition shall include a description of the proposed zone boundaries, the proposed restriction, and the days and hours the restriction is proposed to b...