Fremont, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

180(e) governs what can park on a residential driveway and where on the lot that parking may occur. Subsection (e)(1)(A) allows motor vehicles up to 25 feet long on the driveway, with a narrow disability exception in (e)(1)(B) for a vehicle that is a physically disabled resident's primary transportation, subject to police department review and a displayed DMV placard. Subsection (e)(3), the location-restriction clause, is what actually forecloses unpaved front-yard parking: no vehicle or equipment may be parked or stored in any part of a front yard, or the street side yard of a corner lot, that is not the driveway, and none may overhang into that non-driveway yard area either.

Because the driveway is defined as the paved area serving the lot, this provision effectively bars parking on lawn, dirt, gravel or any other unpaved yard surface, even temporarily, outside the loading/unloading and trip-preparation exceptions in (e)(2). Vehicles parked on the driveway must also sit with their side substantially parallel to the driveway's edge, and an 'extended driveway' (the strip between the existing driveway and the side property line) can only carry parking if it is permanently surfaced and landscaped as a buffer, per the definition in subsection (a)(2)(C).

030(c) separately requires most parking and driveway areas to be paved with asphaltic or Portland cement concrete, reinforcing that dirt or gravel parking areas do not qualify as a lawful driveway under this chapter.