Jackson County, MS Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Article 2 of the Zoning Ordinance defines DRIVEWAY as a privately owned or maintained access from a property or lot to a street or road, then sets four specific construction standards in that same definition. First, every residential driveway must be paved with gravel as a minimum, meaning a bare dirt cut from the road is not compliant. Second, commercial driveways carry a stricter dust-free surface requirement, which in practice means asphalt, concrete or comparable paving rather than gravel. 1. Fourth, the ordinance caps how much a driveway can be shared: no driveway may serve more than two residential units, which forecloses long shared driveways serving three or more homes off a single curb cut and pushes those developments toward a dedicated interior street instead.

Because these standards sit in the definitions article rather than a stand-alone driveway chapter, they apply countywide to every district where a residential or commercial use is permitted, and they are checked as part of the same building permit and certificate of occupancy process that covers setbacks, lot coverage and other dimensional standards in Article 4.