Fayetteville, NC Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

5, Parking Standards for Residential Development, governs where and how a single-family, attached, or two-to-four-family dwelling may park in its own front or corner side yard. Subsection (a) confines parking to a defined 'vehicular use area' covering passenger vehicles, trucks up to 13,000 pounds GVWR, vans, and golf carts. Subsection (b) caps how much of that yard can become parking: within the first 40 feet from the street right-of-way, the vehicular use area is limited to the greater of 33 percent of the front or corner side yard, or 750 square feet, and never more than half the minimum required yard.

Subsection (d), Surfacing, is the driveway-material rule: it points back to the general asphalt-concrete-brick-stone standard in Sec. c but carves out an exception unique to houses, allowing gravel or crushed stone within that first 40 feet. Loose material must run at least two inches deep throughout, and the area needs a visibly discernible, defined edge, landscape timbers, metal edging, or low shrubs and decorative grasses, so the gravel doesn't spread across the yard. Where topography, existing trees, or existing structures make even that standard impractical, the City Manager may approve an alternative surface.

Heavy trucks, commercial vehicles, or anything over 13,000 pounds GVWR still cannot park in the front or corner side yard at all, per subsection (c), and any inoperable vehicle or equipment must be stored inside an enclosed structure under subsection (e).