West Covina, CA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 22-184 targets any commercial vehicle with a manufacturer's gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more. That vehicle cannot stop, stand, park or be left standing on any city street in a residential district, no signage is required to trigger the ban there. In nonresidential districts the same trucks are barred only where signs specifically prohibit parking, or where posted restrictions are in place and the parking violates them; unsigned nonresidential streets are unaffected. The section carves out three exceptions: vehicles owned by a public utility or a licensed contractor while necessarily in use for utility construction, installation or repair; commercial vehicles actually making pickups or deliveries of goods, wares or merchandise to or from a building on the restricted street; and vehicles delivering materials for the bona fide repair, alteration, remodeling or construction of a building for which a building permit was already issued.

The city's traffic authority is authorized to install and maintain the signs needed to give notice of the nonresidential-district restrictions. The rule dates to Code 1960 Section 3188 and was last amended by Ordinance No. 1572 in January 1983, following earlier amendments in 1975 and 1982 that set the current weight threshold and exceptions.