Frisco, TX Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

09(E), "Parking prohibited in front yards," states the rule flatly: no parking is allowed in the front yard, except along Main Street between the Dallas North Tollway and the BNSF Railroad, where the ordinance specifically permits slip roads. That single carve-out means every other residential and commercial front yard in the city is off-limits to parked vehicles, whether the surface is paved or not. 03: the cumulative area of any driveway plus any other impermeable surface located between the front property line and the front building wall cannot exceed 50 percent of that space.

Between the two rules, a homeowner can pave a driveway wide enough to reach a garage, but cannot turn the remainder of the front lawn into a parking pad or extend impermeable coverage past the halfway mark of the yard. The Director of Development Services administers both standards during building permit and site plan review, and the front-yard parking ban is enforced the same way any other zoning violation is, through code enforcement inspection and the site plan and certificate of occupancy process.