Alachua County, FL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

5 of the Alachua County Unified Land Development Code governs where trucks, recreational vehicles, and trailers sit on residential lots in the A, A-RB, RE, RE-1, R-1aa, R-1a, R-1b, R-1c, RM, and RM-1 zoning districts. Semi-trucks, semi-trailers, box trucks, panel trucks, and buses (except those on a legal institutional site) cannot be parked outside an enclosed structure anywhere in these districts, personal or commercial. Ordinary trucks and trailers may sit outdoors only inside a structure meeting the district's dimensional and setback standards, and none of these vehicles may sit within a lot's required setback except as a driveway normally allows.

RVs get more latitude: they may park in a side or rear yard at least two feet from the lot line, or in the front yard only if there's no side- or rear-yard access, in which case the RV must sit perpendicular to the front property line and cannot overhang a sidewalk, trail, bike path, or street. A parked RV cannot store unrelated goods, discharge waste onto the ground or right-of-way, or sit on a vacant or unimproved lot. 5. Unserviceable (inoperable) vehicles fall instead under Chapter 74, Article III's separate junk-vehicle rules.