Fresno, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 10-605(h) is one of the specific conditions the Fresno City Council has already declared a public nuisance under Article 6's abatement ordinance, alongside junk vehicles, overgrown weeds and blighted buildings. It bars parking or storing any vehicle upon an unpaved surface unless a law expressly authorizes it, which reaches a car left on bare dirt in a front yard, side yard, or unimproved parking strip just as much as a commercial truck stored on gravel. The subsection builds in a set of presumptions rather than requiring the City to prove who put the vehicle there: the property owner and any person or entity occupying the property are presumed to have authorized the parking, and the vehicle's registered owner is presumed to have parked it there personally.

Because all three presumptions can stack, Section 10-605(h) closes off the owner's usual defense that a tenant or visitor parked the car without permission, the property owner, occupant and registered owner of the vehicle may all be held responsible for a violation of this subsection. Enforcement follows the standard Article 6 path set out in Sections 10-606 through 10-610: a notice of violation or notice and order from the Director, summary abatement, or an administrative citation, with the same right of appeal available to junk-vehicle and weed violations under the same article.