Greenwood County, SC Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Greenwood County Code Sec. 6-3-145, "Parking or storage of unlicensed vehicles, construction equipment, trucks and trailers," governs commercial and oversized vehicle parking in unincorporated Greenwood County's residential zoning districts. Subsection (2) flatly bars parking or storing tractor-trailer rigs or cabs in any residential district, carving out only vehicles with a loading capacity of one-half ton or less. The same section separately limits residentially occupied lots under ten acres to one unlicensed automobile, truck, or trailer of any type, and bars storing construction equipment outside completely enclosed buildings on those lots under subsection (1).

Property owners with a rig, cab, or unlicensed commercial vehicle already parked on a residential lot when the ordinance took effect were given six months to remove it or bring it into conformity under subsection (4); that grace period has long since expired, so any tractor-trailer rig or cab now parked in a residential district is a current violation, not a legacy use. The rule applies countywide in unincorporated areas regardless of lot size, and it sits inside the Chapter 3 zoning article that Greenwood County's Building and Planning Department administers alongside the zoning administrator.

Because the ordinance targets the vehicle type itself rather than a specific use, a homeowner cannot cure a violation by screening the rig from the street; the cab or trailer has to leave the residential district entirely, typically for a commercial or industrial zoned property or an approved storage yard. The half-ton exception is aimed at pickup-style delivery trucks, not semi tractors or box trailers.