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

2(A) sets two separate rules for the AR agricultural/residential district and every residential zoning district. First, utility trailers and recreational vehicles must be parked behind the front building line unless they are inside a fully enclosed garage or other building; on a corner lot fronting two streets, only one of the two frontages counts as the 'front building line' for this rule, per § 30-100-7, and the zoning administrator resolves unusual lot configurations while protecting sight distance under § 30-100-8. Vehicles inside a multi-family development are exempt from the behind-the-line placement rule.

Second, and separately, no truck or commercial vehicle 'with, or designed to have, more than two (2) rear wheels' may be parked except while loading or unloading on the premises. In practice that reaches most single-rear-axle box trucks, dump trucks and tractor units, not pickup trucks, which the section expressly exempts, along with vehicles essential to an agricultural use on the property. Construction machinery gets a narrower carve-out: it may not be parked overnight unless it is incidental to improving the premises where it sits, so equipment staged for a job elsewhere in the county cannot be stored there overnight.

The section also bars using any recreational vehicle for living or business purposes, or connecting it to utility service, except for maintenance. Enforcement runs through the zoning administrator under § 30-21, the same complaint-driven process used for other zoning violations, with the misdemeanor penalty of § 30-22 attaching if a notice of violation is not corrected.