Homestead, FL Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Homestead bans long-term residential parking of heavy commercial vehicles under City Code § 30-433(f). Any commercial vehicle or heavy equipment with a carrying capacity over one ton, defined broadly to include semi-tractors and trailers, dump trucks, concrete trucks, flatbed trucks, step vans, panel trucks, tow trucks, buses over 11-passenger capacity and utility trucks, cannot sit on any A-1, A-2, R-1, R-2, R-TH, R-CH, R-3 or R-MH zoned lot for more than one hour, except while actively loading or unloading. Pickup trucks used for farm purposes are exempted from the 'farm equipment' category.

If an owner wants to keep a qualifying commercial vehicle longer than an hour, the only option is rear-yard parking, and even then the rear yard must be fenced or hedged well enough to reasonably block the vehicle from view of adjoining neighbors. Only one such commercial vehicle is allowed per lot, no major repair or overhaul work on the vehicle may be performed on the property, and a single lot cannot store both a commercial vehicle and a boat, or a commercial vehicle and an RV, at the same time.

The restriction runs alongside Homestead's separate boat- and RV-storage rules in the same section, which apply their own screening and setback standards to those vehicle types.