Milpitas, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Milpitas Municipal Code § V-100-11.02 authorizes the City Manager or a designee to paint curbs with color codes, and spells out exactly what each color means for drivers under Chapter 100 of the traffic code. A red curb means no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as the California Vehicle Code itself permits, though a bus may still stop in a red zone that is marked or signed as a bus zone. A yellow curb bars stopping, standing or parking between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays and holidays, for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or materials, and even that use is time-boxed: passenger loading cannot run past three minutes and material loading cannot run past 20 minutes.

A green curb caps standing or parking at 20 minutes at a stretch during that same 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. window on non-Sunday, non-holiday days. A blue curb is reserved exclusively for vehicles displaying a disabled person's placard or plate. Subsection 11.02-2 makes the marking itself enforceable: once the City Manager or designee has placed a legible curb marking, no one may stop, stand or park a vehicle next to it in violation of what that color means, and Milpitas Police officers cite drivers under that subsection directly.

Because the meanings are fixed by ordinance rather than left to each sign's wording, a driver who recognizes the curb color in the City of Milpitas already knows the applicable time limit and purpose restriction before reading any accompanying sign.