Georgetown, TX Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

A prohibits stopping, standing, or parking any vehicle in the front or side yard of residential property unless it sits on a driveway, an existing gravel driveway that served a residential property before the section's effective date, or another City-approved surface. Subsection B clarifies that nothing in the section authorizes parking in the front or side yard within the public right-of-way in a manner that interferes with the public's use of that right-of-way. Subsection C bars parking in the sight triangle, the corner-lot visibility area defined in the City's Unified Development Code.

Subsection D makes clear the section does not override the impervious cover limitations in the Unified Development Code, and does not grant any additional right to install a driveway or approved surface, or otherwise modify the City's permitting requirements, beyond what the UDC already allows. The grandfather clause for existing gravel driveways is narrow: it protects only gravel driveways already serving a residential use before the rule took effect, not new gravel installed afterward. Because the section was adopted as part of Ordinance No. 16, Parking, its penalty runs through the same chapter-wide fine schedule as every other parking rule in Title 10, Vehicles and Traffic.