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

40, Stopping, Standing and Parking, bars parking, standing or leaving unattended any commercial vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of ten thousand pounds or more on a public street within a residential district, with a single carve-out for the time the vehicle is actively loading or unloading. The section defines 'commercial vehicle' by adopting California Vehicle Code Section 260's definition: a vehicle of a type required to be registered and used or maintained for transporting persons for hire, compensation or profit, or designed, used or maintained primarily for transporting property.

Because the threshold is set at the manufacturer's rating rather than the vehicle's actual loaded weight, a large pickup-based work truck or a box truck can trip the ten-thousand-pound line even when driven empty, and the ban applies to standing the vehicle unattended, not just multi-day storage. The rule traces back to Ordinance 15 in 1962 and was amended by Ordinance 655 in 2000, showing the city has kept the weight-based residential truck ban on the books through two generations of the traffic code. 030, which separately bars operating a commercial vehicle across a private driveway or sidewalk approach without the owner's consent where signs prohibit it.