Franklin, TN Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 15-617(1) sets a 15-day continuous limit on parking any motor vehicle 'licensed and/or primarily used for commercial purposes' in a residential zoning district, whether that parking happens on a public street or on a residential lot smaller than five acres, and it holds a property owner responsible for allowing such parking on land under their control, not just for parking it themselves. Subsection (2) offers the one way around the 15-day cap: a commercial vehicle can be parked indefinitely if it sits in the lot's rear yard, as the Franklin Zoning Ordinance defines that term, and is effectively screened from any adjoining roadway or property by a wall, enclosure, fence, greenery, or shrubbery.

Subsection (3) is unconditional: no school bus may be parked in a residential zone at any time, with no rear-yard-and-screening option available. A separate subsection of the same section restricts trailers in residential front yards and streets, addressed in its own dedicated ordinance page. Subsection (5) exempts emergency service vehicles and any vehicle actively performing a service on the property, including moving vans and construction vehicles, from the section entirely. Because § 15-617 sits in Title 15, Chapter 6, a violation of the 15-day commercial-vehicle limit is enforced the same way as any other Chapter 6 parking offense, through the illegal-parking citation procedure at § 15-703 and the owner-responsibility presumption at § 15-616.