Redding, CA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

070(A) prohibits parking a commercial vehicle or trailer with an unladen weight of ten thousand pounds or more, or a length over twenty-five feet, in a residential district or on a city right-of-way, street, alley, roadway, or highway adjacent to one. Subsection C defines 'residential district' broadly to include any area zoned residential and any unclassified-zoned area that Redding's General Plan still classifies as residential, and it borrows the California Vehicle Code's definitions of commercial vehicle, truck tractor, trailer, and bus. The rule expressly reaches dump trucks, boom trucks, tow trucks, roll-back carriers, and buses, including school buses and farm labor vehicles, along with roofing asphalt kettles.

Subsection B carves out two exceptions: a commercial vehicle or trailer temporarily parked while actively loading or unloading, or while performing a service on a property in that block, and a single tow truck or roll-back carrier that is on-call under a valid state or local tow agreement or a 24-hour tow service contract, limited to Class A and Class B vehicles under the police department's current tow agreement. Vehicles owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor actively working on utility construction, installation, or repair are excluded from the commercial-vehicle definition entirely.

The current version reflects amendments made by Ordinance 2256 in 1999 and Ordinance 2213 in 1998, building on the original restriction adopted by Ordinance 1873 in 1989.