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

030(D) singles out commercial vehicles for extra restriction once they are on residential property. The rule targets vehicles that are strictly commercial in nature, naming tow trucks, ambulances, mini-buses, and large delivery or service trucks as examples, and applies to any vehicle with a gross load capacity above one and one-half tons regardless of its specific type. A qualifying vehicle cannot be parked in view from the street on a residential lot: it must be placed behind the designated front setback line, the same line that governs how far a house or garage must sit back from the property's front edge.

The rule carves out one operational exception, allowing a covered vehicle to stop in view briefly for the immediate loading or unloading of goods or people, so a delivery truck making a drop-off is not in violation the moment it is visible from the sidewalk. The provision sits alongside two related parking standards in the same section: a general ban on selling, repairing, or storing vehicles, trailers, boats, or equipment in any required off-street parking area, and a separate ban on overnight occupancy of recreational vehicles outside an approved RV park.

Because the commercial-vehicle limit is a zoning standard rather than a vehicle code, it is enforced through the city's Community Development Department and its code enforcement process rather than by a parking ticket from the police department.