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

9(3)(B) bars motor vehicles over one ton capacity bearing a commercial license, and commercially licensed trailers, from being parked or stored on residential or agricultural properties, carving out only trucks and tractors directly tied to an agricultural operation and vehicles that are actively loading, unloading, or being serviced. 9(3)(D) layers on a second, stricter rule for the parking facilities themselves: off-street parking accessory to a residential use may only hold passenger automobiles and, at most, one truck per dwelling unit that does not exceed 12,000 pounds gross weight.

The code states flatly that under no circumstances may a residential parking facility be used to store commercial vehicles, or to park vehicles belonging to employees, owners, tenants, or customers of a nearby business or manufacturing operation. Together the two subsections stop a homeowner from converting a driveway or yard into overflow storage for a work truck fleet or a neighboring business's customer parking, while still allowing farm equipment tied to an active agricultural use and short-term loading or service stops. 9's broader off-street parking standards, which also set minimum nine-by-eighteen-foot space dimensions and require ADA-compliant handicapped spaces.