Greensboro, NC Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Sec. 16-165 prohibits parking a vehicle on the front yard of any property containing a single-family or two-family dwelling unless the parking surface is a 'hard all-weather surface such as asphalt, concrete, brick, CABC (gravel), pervious paving or other approved material' meeting the driveway-surface standard in Sec. 30-11-11 of the land development ordinance. The rule targets grass and dirt parking pads specifically: an unimproved lawn does not qualify no matter how long the vehicle has sat there. 00 fine, and each violation is treated as a separate and distinct offense, meaning a vehicle left in place across multiple inspection dates can generate multiple citations rather than one continuing charge.

The section adds its own escalation ladder independent of the general parking-ticket schedule in Sec. 16-71/16-73: once a vehicle accumulates three unpaid citations within a 90-day period, the section directs that the offending vehicle be disabled or towed. Because the standard is tied to the parcel's zoning as single-family or two-family, it does not reach multi-family or commercial lots the same way, and the reference to Sec. 30-11-11 means the acceptable-surface list can be narrower or broader depending on what that land development ordinance section currently allows.