Camarillo, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Where it applies
- Front yard setback, residential zones
- Required surface
- Improved area approved under Title 19
- Driveway material (ROW crossing)
- Portland cement concrete
- Min. driveway spacing (adjoining lots)
- 1 foot
- First-offense fine cap
- $100
Summary
Camarillo bans parking or storing vehicles in a residential front yard setback unless the surface is an improved area approved under the city's zoning title. Bare dirt, gravel or lawn parking pads in front yards don't qualify.
The parking or storage of vehicles in front yard setback areas in residential zones, on other than improved surfaces approved pursuant to the provisions of Title 19 of this code, is prohibited.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 27 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
210 prohibits parking or storing vehicles in front yard setback areas of residential zones on anything other than an improved surface approved under Title 19 of the code, the city's zoning title. That means a resident cannot simply park on the lawn, a dirt strip, or an unapproved gravel patch in the setback; the surface has to be one the zoning code recognizes and the city has approved, typically a paved or otherwise engineered driveway extension. 435 separately bars building or maintaining a driveway where a fence, building, natural grade, or other obstacle would prevent a vehicle from being stored entirely off the public right-of-way once it enters.
445, with at least one foot required between driveways serving different adjoining lots absent a shared driveway. Read together, these sections mean a legal residential parking surface in Camarillo has to be both zoning-approved in the front setback and, where it crosses the right-of-way, built to the city's concrete driveway standard.
Violations & Fines
Parking or storing a vehicle on an unapproved front-yard surface violates Section 11.20.210 and is enforced under Title 11 as a Title 1.12 general penalty violation: up to one hundred dollars for a first offense, up to two hundred dollars for a repeat violation of the same section within a year, and up to five hundred dollars for each further repeat within that year. Related driveway construction violations under Chapter 13.04 are separately enforceable as misdemeanors under Section 13.04.670.
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