Chicopee, MA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 260-28 of the Chicopee Code, Parking of commercial vehicles, regulates heavy and long vehicles in two places. Subsection A covers streets. No driver can park or stand a motor vehicle or motor vehicle attachment with a gross vehicle weight of 26,001 pounds or more, or one exceeding 24 feet in length, for more than one hour on any day, or at any time on Sunday, on any part of a street, way, highway, road or parkway under the control of the City of Chicopee where parking or standing is not otherwise prohibited. The one-hour limit does not apply during actual service or delivery or in the case of an emergency.

Subsection B covers private property. In any residential zone in the City of Chicopee, a vehicle meeting the same 26,001 pound or 24 foot test cannot be parked or stood on private property for more than three calendar days during any calendar month. Both subsections exclude recreational vehicles, which fall under the separate eight-hour street rule in § 260-22B, and both exempt motor vehicles, regardless of size, owned or operated by the City of Chicopee, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts or the United States of America.

Two related provisions add to the picture. Section 260-79, Schedule XX, lists streets from which commercial vehicles are excluded in accordance with § 260-49A, including the entire length of Abby Memorial Drive, Armory Drive and Baltic Avenue. In the zoning chapter, § 275-30 bars using a truck, truck body, truck-towed trailer, tractor-towed trailer or other hauling equipment for storage of materials, and bars parking or storing it in any district for more than two weeks unless the place is a truck terminal or a lot for equipment rented to the general public. The City Council can authorize a special permit for storage by nonprofit organizations or charitable institutions.