Bonner County, ID Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

The rule is standard 1 under Table 4-3, Minimum Off Street Parking Requirements, in section 12-432 of the Bonner County Revised Code. It covers vehicles, to include automobiles, recreational vehicles, boats or campers, that are to be parked or stored for a period exceeding 48 hours. Those vehicles must be located on the same lot as the use they are intended to serve, and they must be outside of the required front yard. Table 4-3 attaches standard (1) to the single-family and multi-family residential rows, so the rule reaches ordinary homes and apartment sites.

The table sets the space counts that go with it. Single-family residential needs 2 spaces per dwelling unit on the same lot as the dwelling unit. Multi-family residential needs 1 space per dwelling unit for a studio, 1.5 for a 1 bedroom and 2 for 2 or more bedrooms, within 300 feet of the principal use. Mobile home parks need 1 space per homesite within 200 feet of the homesite.

Section 12-431 supplies the geometry. Required parking spaces are exclusive of drives and access lanes, each space needs adequate ingress and egress, and a space is no less than two hundred (200) square feet in area. When a lot is laid out with driveways and aisles, 250 square feet per parking space is used to determine the gross area. The required front yard itself comes from the street setback figures in the dimensional tables, which print 25 feet as the minimum street setback in each of the five rural zones in section 12-411.

The Planning Director administers these standards, and under section 12-130 A cannot issue a permit unless the intended uses of buildings and land conform in all respects with Title 12.