Kenosha County, WI Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)
Key Facts
- Semi-truck cab limit
- 4 days max per 30-day period
- Weight threshold
- 12,000+ lb trucks banned outright
- Construction equipment
- Backhoes, bulldozers, bobcats barred
- Exception
- One truck under 12,000 lbs allowed
- Utility exception
- Emergency utility truck needs DPD approval
- Territory
- Towns with county zoning only
Summary
Kenosha County bars semi-trailers, tow trucks, garbage trucks, and any dump, flatbed, box, panel, or step truck rated 12,000 pounds or more from residential-district parcels. A parked semi-truck cab is capped at four days in any 30-day stretch, and backhoes, bulldozers, and similar construction rigs are barred outright.
(r) Vehicle Parking and/or Storage in a Residential District. 1. Semi-truck cabs shall not be parked and/or stored on a parcel in any residential district for more than a total of 4 days in a 30-day period. A day is counted if the semi-truck cab is parked and/or stored for any length of time within in a normal 24-hour day. 2. The following vehicles shall not be parked and/or stored on a parcel in any residential district: a. Semi-trailers, tow trucks, garbage trucks, septic waste trucks and aerial lift trucks. b. Dump trucks, flatbed trucks, box trucks, panel trucks, high cube vans, and step vans with licenses rated for a gross weight equal to or greater than 12,000 lbs. c. Specialized construction type equipment and vehicles such as, but not limited to backhoes, bulldozers, bobcats, skid loaders, and chippers.
Full Breakdown
030(r) governs residential-district parking in the towns that have adopted Kenosha County's zoning ordinance; it does not reach the City of Kenosha, the City of Lake Geneva, or an incorporated village. Paragraph 1 limits a parked semi-truck cab to a total of four days within any 30-day period, counting any day the cab sits on the parcel for any length of time as a full day. Paragraph 2 bars three classes of vehicle from a residential parcel outright: semi-trailers, tow trucks, garbage trucks, septic waste trucks, and aerial lift trucks (subsection a); dump trucks, flatbed trucks, box trucks, panel trucks, high cube vans, and step vans licensed at 12,000 pounds gross weight or more (subsection b); and specialized construction equipment such as backhoes, bulldozers, bobcats, skid loaders, and chippers (subsection c).
Paragraph 3 carves out two exceptions: one dump, flatbed, box, panel, or step vehicle rated under 12,000 pounds may stay, and a local electric utility's emergency response truck may park with Department of Planning and Development approval. 030(t) confines semi-trailer storage to permitted transshipment depots and trucking facilities and caps any semi-trailer's stay at 30 days within a 365-day period.
Violations & Fines
A residential-district vehicle-storage violation is enforced the same way as any other Chapter 12 zoning breach: Section 12.53.010 sets a forfeiture of not less than $10 nor more than $500 per offense plus prosecution costs, with jail time up to 30 days in default of payment. Because each day a banned truck sits on the lot is a separate offense, the county can compound the forfeiture daily until the vehicle is removed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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