Montgomery County, VA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 10-41(14) treats home-business vehicles and larger commercial equipment differently. A homeowner running an approved home occupation or home business may keep exactly one commercial vehicle on site, but it cannot be a tractor trailer or anything over one and a half tons gross vehicle weight, and it must sit somewhere other than the required front or side yard. Separately, any bus, truck or other vehicle heavier than one and a half tons cannot be stored outdoors or parked overnight in a residential district at all unless the parcel is two acres or larger.

Front-yard parking generally is limited to paved or gravel driveway area. Cargo trailers, boats, campers, travel trailers, motorized dwellings and horse vans over six feet in average height face their own placement rule: they cannot sit in a required front or side yard and must stay at least three feet from any building, and none of this equipment may be lived in or slept in while parked on the lot. The contrast is sharper in the county's Community and General Business districts, where Section 10-41's parking-use standard caps ordinary business parking to personal and customer vehicles plus commercial vehicles under five tons GVW associated with the business; anything heavier, or any semitrailer, needs a special use permit from the Board of Supervisors.