Glendale, AZ Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

City Code § 24-65(g) states flatly that no person shall leave, place or park any abandoned vehicle or inoperable vehicle upon any public street, alleyway, parking lot or other city property. On private property, § 24-65(d) prohibits the unsheltered storage of an abandoned or inoperable vehicle, including one being repaired or restored, if it is visible to a person standing at ground level beyond the lot's boundaries, unless that storage or repair is customary and incidental to the property's principal use and complies with the Zoning Ordinance.

Subsection (e) allows an abandoned or inoperable vehicle to be kept in a carport if it wears a properly maintained cover made exclusively for covering vehicles, not bed linen, paper, cardboard, plastic sheeting or tarps, which § 24-65(c) expressly disqualifies as covers. Section 24-68(h), governing residential lots specifically, layers on additional detail: an inoperable vehicle may only be parked or stored in an enclosed structure, garage, or on a dustproof surface in a side or rear yard screened by a solid six-foot wall, fence, gate or landscaping, and storage of an inoperable vehicle in a front yard is flatly prohibited. That subsection does not apply where storing, repairing or restoring inoperable vehicles is customary and incidental to a property's principal use.