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

060 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code sets a flat one-hour limit on stopping, standing, or parking a commercial vehicle, commercial trailer, or publicly or privately owned bus on any street or alley in the city, with the only exception being time spent necessarily loading or unloading property. The rule tightens further on residential streets: subsection B bars these same vehicles from stopping, standing, or parking at all on any street fronting property zoned R-1, R-2, R-3, or R-4, again except while necessarily loading or unloading.

Subsection C defines a commercial vehicle by cross-reference to California Vehicle Code Section 260(a) as any vehicle of a type required to be registered under that section, or one maintained for hire, compensation, or profit, or designed and used primarily for transporting property, sweeping in delivery trucks, box trucks, and similar vehicles regardless of local registration. The ordinance was adopted by Ordinance 1672 in 1999 and amended by Ordinance 2114 in 2016. 22. Because the residential-zone ban has no time floor, a delivery truck idling in front of an R-1 house for even a few minutes outside an active loading operation is already in violation, unlike the one-hour grace period that applies on commercial and other non-residentially-zoned streets.