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

City Code § 11-6-23(d) targets oversized commercial trucks specifically in residential zoning districts, layering a stricter rule on top of the general one-hour street limit that applies to heavy vehicles citywide under subsection (b). Any commercial truck or commercial vehicle over 23 feet long or eight feet wide is capped at four consecutive hours of parking once it sits inside a residential zoning district, whether that parking happens on the street, in an alley, or on a driveway subject to the residential-district trigger. Subsection (e) carves out four exceptions: trucks parked on nonresidential properties, trucks stored inside a fully enclosed garage or similar permanent structure, vehicles related to construction activity actually in progress on a site under construction, and public or private utility or emergency first-responder vehicles once the city administrator approves the parking.

Ordinance No. 3722 first added commercial-vehicle parking limits in 2005, and the current four-hour residential cap was refined through Ordinance No. 4388 in 2019, which restructured the whole of section 11-6-23 into its present lettered subsections. The rule sits alongside the separate one-hour limit in subsection (b) for trucks, motorhomes, dump trucks, tractors, trailers, boats, and heavy machinery parked anywhere in the city, so a commercial truck in a residential district can actually be subject to whichever limit applies first depending on its use and location.