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

The same section separately regulates portable storage: trailers with wheels used purely for storage are barred everywhere except the B-5, M-1, M-2 and M-3 districts, though the building official can permit a temporary storage trailer elsewhere in a nonresidential zone for up to 60 days, extendable in 30-day increments. Rigid, non-wheeled portable storage containers get their own no-fee permit track. On a lot with a detached single-family home, a container is allowed for up to 30 days within any six-month period, capped at 260 square feet, and it must sit on a driveway or other paved surface rather than the rear yard, though the building official can extend that window if the home suffered storm or casualty damage.

Multi-family residential lots get a much shorter 72-hour window per six months and a 130-square-foot cap per unit, keeping containers out of required setbacks and parking spaces. Nonresidential lots may keep a container up to 60 days per six months, capped at 400 square feet, again clear of required parking, landscaping and buffers. Every container, residential or not, is limited to 8½ feet in height, and none of these limits apply to a container that's part of an active construction site under its own building permit. Growth Management's building official issues and tracks all of these permits alongside the underlying commercial-vehicle and trailer parking restrictions.