Lower Paxton, PA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 203-516 of the Lower Paxton Township Code is a flat prohibition rather than a permit scheme. It covers commercial equipment, including trucks in excess of one ton capacity, tandems, tractor-trailers, tractors, and other vehicles bearing commercial advertisement, along with construction or cargo-moving vehicles or equipment. None of them can, under any conditions, be stored outside an enclosed building or garage or be parked overnight on any lot in a district where residential uses are permitted. The section then goes further: the parking of commercial vehicles is not permitted on Township streets or in front, side, or rear yards of a lot. A driveway in the front yard is therefore covered, and so is a side or rear yard.

The one exception is temporary. The rule does not apply to commercial vehicles parked temporarily in residential areas for the purpose of loading, unloading, or rendering service to any residential property, which covers a delivery truck, a moving van or a contractor's service call.

Chapter 196 adds a street rule that reaches beyond residential districts. Section 196-25A prohibits the parking of truck tractors, truck tractors with trailers and trailers on or along all public streets in any zoning district.

Home businesses carry parallel limits. A no-impact home based business under § 203-519 cannot show any outside appearance of a business use, including parking, signs or lights, and cannot require delivery by tractor trailer trucks. Outdoor storage under § 203-505 is limited to what is accessory to a principal use, must be screened and cannot sit in a front yard.