El Cajon, CA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

070(A) makes it unlawful to park any commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle weight over ten thousand pounds, or any commercial trailer or semitrailer whether or not attached to a motorized vehicle, on any street, alley, public way or public place in El Cajon. The only exceptions are a vehicle registered to an El Cajon address whose owner holds a valid city permit, a vehicle actively loading or unloading property, a vehicle parked in aid of a service being performed on the property in that block, or a vehicle disabled to the point it cannot avoid stopping.

Permits are issued under subsection D free of charge through city facilities or online, but only to El Cajon residents whose vehicle is registered to an El Cajon address. Each permit covers a maximum of twenty-four consecutive hours, a holder can obtain no more than three permits in any seventy-two-hour period, and no more than fifty-two permits in a calendar year, roughly one week's worth of permitted parking days. , whether the parking is continuous or broken into intervals and whether or not the vehicle stays in the same spot. 060 also caps ordinary vehicle storage on any street at seventy-two hours before it counts as unlawfully stored.