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

Melbourne's Division 2, "Large Trucks and Heavy Equipment," bars commercial trucks from residential neighborhoods outright rather than regulating them by size or duration. Section 56-63 makes it unlawful for any agent, owner, occupant, lessee, or tenant to park, store, or deposit a bus, road tractor, semitrailer, truck tractor, or "any other truck or special mobile equipment or other heavy equipment of whatever type, size or nature" on public or private property within the EU, R-1AAA, R-1AA, R-1A, R-1B, R-2, R-3, R-4, R-P, or the residential-occupied portion of a PUD zoning district. The definitions in Section 56-62 sweep in buses over 15 passengers, semitrailers, truck tractors, road tractors, and "special mobile equipment" such as ditch-diggers, asphalt spreaders, and cranes.

Section 56-64 carves out seven exceptions: the commercial and industrial zoning districts (C-P, C-1, C-1A, C-2, C-3, M-1, M-2, I-1, R-A, R-2T, and the commercial portion of a PUD); active construction sites with a valid building permit; vehicles performing authorized work on the premises; any vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less; vehicles fully enclosed in a garage or carport; travel trailers parked under Appendix D, Chapter 9; and a disabled vehicle parked in an emergency, which must still be towed out of the residential district within 24 hours.

Section 56-65 makes a violation a noncriminal parking infraction under Fla. Stat. § 316.1967 when the truck sits on a street, sidewalk, easement, or public right-of-way, and it sends every private-property violation to the city's code enforcement board for disposition rather than treating it as a simple parking ticket.