Alameda, CA Parking Rules: Commercial Vehicle Restrictions (2026)

The City of Alameda regulates commercial trucks more tightly than the California Vehicle Code default. Under AMC 8-7.9 (Heavy Commercial Vehicles), no person may park a heavy commercial vehicle for more than three hours on a street in a residential district, or in any other area in a residential district, with two narrow exceptions: (a) while loading or unloading property when additional time beyond three hours is necessary to complete the work, or (b) when the vehicle is parked in connection with and in aid of a service being performed on a property in the same block, and additional time is reasonably necessary to complete that service. Notwithstanding those allowances, the ordinance flatly prohibits parking heavy commercial vehicles along the frontage of all City Parks, effective once appropriate signage is installed. Records of these prohibitions are kept in the City Engineer's office. Separately, large vehicles over the size/weight thresholds in AMC 8-7.10 cannot park on any city street between 2:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. These city rules supplement California Vehicle Code Section 22507, which authorizes local commercial-vehicle parking restrictions.