Coconut Creek, FL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 19-37 of the Coconut Creek Code of Ordinances makes it unlawful to park listed vehicles in residentially zoned areas of the city except as the section allows. It defines two commercial classes. A commercial vehicle is any vehicle with permanent or nonpermanent outside lettering identifying a business or other nonpersonal use, exclusive of the front license plate, or one defined by Florida Statutes as a truck, trailer, hearse, limousine, taxi or van. A heavy commercial vehicle is anything over 10,000 pounds gross vehicle weight ratio or 8 feet wide, 8 feet high or 22 feet long, plus tools-on-wheels such as tractor cranes, power shovels, wreckers, semi-trailers, flat bed trucks, cube, box and step vans, dump trucks, and trade vehicles with visible supplies or equipment such as plumbing, irrigation and bucket trucks. Racks more than twelve inches above the permanent roofline count as equipment.

The restriction covers RS-1, RS-3, RS-4, RC-5, RC-8, RM-10, the single-family, zero lot line and multi-family portions of PUDs, and MH-1. Heavy commercial vehicles are not permitted in any residential district unless otherwise noted, and not on multifamily sites at all. The exemptions are narrow. A commercial or heavy commercial vehicle actively engaged in lawful repair, moving or construction work for the property owner is exempt from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Sundays and national holidays, and construction and moving vehicles on a permitted operation can stay overnight if not operating between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. (6:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m. Sundays and holidays).

In RS-3, RS-4, RC-5, RC-8 and matching PUD and MH-1 areas, a commercial vehicle can park in a garage, a carport, or the side yard five feet behind the front building setback, at least one foot from side property lines and opaquely screened on three sides by a wall, fence or hedge at least five feet high. A signed commercial vehicle can instead sit on a paved driveway under an opaque, well-maintained car cover, entirely within the driveway. In A-1 and RS-1, vehicles are allowed wherever required setbacks are met, and heavy commercial vehicles need an occupational license naming their location and number. A commercial vehicle used for a home business needs an approved home occupational license.

Every vehicle in any city zoning district must carry a current license and registration and be in mechanical working order. Enforcement follows Chapter 2 of the Code, with fines from the schedule in § 1-8.