Springfield, OH Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Springfield Codified Ordinances § 351.14(a), enacted by Ordinance 68-52 on April 1, 1968, prohibits parking a defined list of heavy and commercial vehicles on any street within the city's residential zoning districts: a school bus, a house vehicle over one ton, a commercial tractor, an agricultural tractor, a truck over one ton, a bus, a trailer, a semitrailer, a pole trailer, a boat or boat trailer, or a moving van. The ban applies to the street itself rather than the driveway, and the code carves out exactly two exceptions: an emergency necessitating repairs, or the actual loading or unloading of materials or merchandise, and even that loading exception is capped at one hour of parking time.

Because the restriction runs by zoning district rather than by street name, whether a given block qualifies depends on the residential zoning classification set under the Zoning Code (Part Eleven), and the Community Development Department's zoning maps control which streets are covered. The Springfield Police Division enforces the section on patrol, most often against moving trucks or landscaping trailers left parked overnight in a residential neighborhood beyond the one-hour loading allowance.