La Habra, CA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Weight threshold, street
- 10,000 lbs GVWR or more, § 10.20.110
- Weight threshold, property
- Over 6,000 lbs unladen, § 10.20.120
- Delivery exception
- Time reasonably needed for pickups/deliveries
- Construction exception
- Permitted repair, remodel or construction work
- Non-residential limit
- 2-hour max outside residential districts
- Enforcing agency
- La Habra Police Department
- Adopted
- Ord. 1032 (1978); Ord. 1211 (1983)
Summary
In the City of La Habra, commercial trucks, tractors and trailers rated 10,000 pounds or more cannot park on residential streets except while actively making deliveries or hauling materials to a permitted job site. Municipal Code § 10.20.110 governs the streets themselves, while § 10.20.120 separately bars any commercial vehicle over 6,000 pounds unladen from residential parcels reached only by residential streets.
§ 10.20.110. Commercial vehicle parking—Residential streets. A. No person shall park or leave standing any commercial vehicle, motor truck, semitrailer, tractor or trailer having a manufacturer's gross weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more on any street, or portion thereof, located in a residential district within the city except for such time as is reasonably necessary to make pickups or deliveries of goods, wares or merchandise from or to any building or structure located on the street or for such time as is reasonably necessary for the purpose of delivering materials to be used in the actual or bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of any building or structure upon which a building permit has been previously obtained from the city. ... ... § 10.20.120. Commercial vehicle parking—Residential property. A. No commercial vehicle (as described in Section 260 of the Vehicle Code) in excess of six thousand pounds unladen shall be parked on residential property where ingress and egress would require traversing residential or restricted streets.
Full Breakdown
La Habra Municipal Code § 10.20.110 targets any commercial vehicle, motor truck, semitrailer, tractor or trailer with a manufacturer's gross weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more. Subsection A bars parking or standing such a vehicle on any street in a residential district, carving out only two exceptions: the time reasonably needed to make pickups or deliveries at a building on that street, and the time reasonably needed to deliver materials for a bona fide repair, alteration, remodel or construction job that already holds a city building permit.
Subsection B applies the same weight threshold citywide outside residential districts but allows parking for up to two hours while continuously loading, unloading or servicing a property, plus whatever additional time the work itself requires. Subsection C makes clear the section never authorizes parking or passage that some other law already forbids. Section 10.20.120 works the residential side from the property angle: no commercial vehicle as described in California Vehicle Code Section 260, weighing more than 6,000 pounds unladen, may be parked on residential property if reaching it means driving a residential or restricted street.
The exception in subsection B lets an oversized vehicle make a direct pickup or delivery run, or park during actual construction or remodeling work on that residential parcel. Both sections date to the city's 1978 traffic code (Ord. 1032), with § 10.20.120 added by Ord. 1211 in 1983. La Habra Police Department officers post the signage and enforce the sections.
Violations & Fines
Parking a commercial vehicle rated 10,000 pounds or more on a residential street, or parking one over 6,000 pounds unladen on residential property reached by a residential street, without a qualifying delivery, pickup or active building permit, violates §§ 10.20.110 and 10.20.120. La Habra Police Department officers enforce the sections and may cite the registered owner; violations fall under the city's general penalty scheme in Chapter 1.08, which sets a misdemeanor fine of up to $500 and up to six months in jail unless the city has classified the offense as an infraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
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