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

Section 26-1 defines a commercial vehicle broadly: any bus, step van, truck, trailer, utility trailer, truck tractor, tow truck or wrecker, agricultural, construction or industrial equipment, any vehicle used to carry people, goods or things for profit, and any vehicle displaying commercial lettering. A pickup with an altered cargo box, or with the box removed, counts, and so does any vehicle carrying tools, building materials or merchandise, or outfitted with emergency flashing or rotating lights visible from the street or from abutting residential property. Section 26-2(c)(1) bars every such vehicle from any zone other than commercial or industrial and declares the parking of one in an unauthorized district a public nuisance.

Section 26-2(c)(2) carves out a short list for R-1, R-1A-D, R-2, R-3, R-3A, R-3U, T-1, PRC, the residential portions of a PUD, and TOC-CC, TOC-G and TOC-C parcels that are 100 per cent residential. On a plot improved with a permitted structure, the allowed vehicles are standard sedans and coupes designed primarily for noncommercial use, station wagons, minivans, sport utility vehicles and vans designed primarily for noncommercial use, and pickup trucks. A limousine is allowed with two conditions: only one per residence, owned by the property owner, the resident or his or her employer, and room must still remain on the property for two additional vehicles.

Three physical limits then apply to everything on the list: no more than two axles, no more than 23 feet in length, and no more than 9.2 feet in height. No permitted vehicle can be parked on a public right-of-way, lawn or yard. It goes on a driveway or an area constructed and permitted by the building department. Section 26-2(d) exempts emergency and public utility vehicles, commercial vehicles serving a person or structure while the service is actually being performed, and any commercial vehicle in a wholly enclosed garage with no part visible or protruding.

Under Section 26-2(e), liability reaches the titled owner, the landowner on the latest Broward County ad valorem tax record, and any tenant in possession and control of the rental property.