Rochester Hills, MI Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 138-10.308.A of the Zoning Ordinance bars any person from parking or storing the vehicles listed in paragraph A.2.a, which includes step vans, cube vans, buses, dump trucks, stake trucks, flatbed trucks, wreckers, semi trucks and trailers, tank trucks, and commercial and construction equipment and trailers, on public property in any zoning district: streets, rights-of-way, bike paths, greenbelts and the planting strips between them. The same category of heavy vehicle is separately barred from residential districts entirely under paragraph A.2.a, with a narrow exception in paragraph A.4 for a vehicle actively performing a service on the adjacent property for the time reasonably necessary to complete the job.

Lighter commercial vehicles fall outside that ban: paragraph A.2.b permits pickup trucks, passenger and cargo-style vans seating up to 15, sport utility vehicles, passenger cars and similar vehicles in a residential district, and paragraph A.2.c limits a household to one such vehicle stored outside an enclosed building when it is used for transportation by the occupants. Paragraph A.2.d caps allowed roof racks and attachments so equipment cannot extend the vehicle more than nine feet high or beyond the manufacturer's length or width specification, except that a front plow and rear spreader are allowed even if they extend the vehicle's length.

In nonresidential districts, paragraph A.3 permits the same heavy vehicles and equipment only where the parking or storage relates to a permitted principal or accessory use of the property.