Davis, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

050(b) sets the parking rules that apply specifically to single-family and duplex lots. Only one driveway per street frontage may run from the public street to the property, unless the frontage is eighty feet or wider or the driveway is a circular drive. Where a lot has at least a ten-foot side yard for access, parking is allowed in the required rear yard, but the combined coverage of that rear yard by accessory structures and paved parking area cannot exceed thirty percent. In the front or side yard, impervious surfacing, meaning asphalt, concrete or similar hard paving, is capped at forty percent of the yard area or eighteen feet of total width, whichever is greater; if concrete runners are used, the strip between them counts toward that total.

A parking space itself must meet minimum dimensions, for example two side-by-side spaces on a shared driveway need at least eighteen feet of width, based on a nine-foot minimum stall width. 060(e), uncovered parking spaces for single-family and duplex homes located in the front yard cannot be used for, or blocked by, storage of materials, equipment, or inoperable vehicles. 060(a).