El Paso, TX Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

100 of the El Paso City Code, "Parking prohibited for certain vehicles," sets a bright-line size cap for anything parked on city rights-of-way. Subsection A bans parking "for any period of time" any vehicle or trailer exceeding nine feet in height, twenty-six feet in length, or seven feet eight inches in width on a public street, alley, sidewalk, median, or the area between the curb line and the adjacent property line. The only carve-out is a loading exception: such a vehicle may stop for up to two hours, consecutive or not, in any eight-hour period, strictly for loading or unloading goods or merchandise.

Subsection B removes even that loading exception inside a defined downtown perimeter, bounded by Cotton Street to the west, Paisano Street to the south, Texas Avenue to the north, and Piedras Street to the east, where oversized vehicles and trailers cannot stop at all. 88. 44, have it towed and stored at the owner's expense. The current thresholds trace to Ordinance No. 16890 (2008), amending versions back to Ordinance No. 12390 (1995), so the nine-foot/twenty-six-foot/seven-foot-eight-inch limits have applied citywide for roughly three decades.