Hamilton County, TN Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Article IV, § 1004 sets the off-street parking standard for multi-family dwellings within the county's MH Manufactured Home District: rental units must provide at least one and one-half off-street parking spaces per dwelling unit, and owner-occupied units must provide two spaces per unit. The same subsection requires that all parking areas and driveways be paved and bars any parking layout that would force vehicles to back onto or maneuver from a dedicated public street. The identical paving and space-count language appears in § 704 for the R-3 Multi-Family Residential District, so the paving requirement is a standard the county applies wherever it regulates off-street parking for multi-family dwellings, not a one-off MH provision.

A separately requires that the main vehicle entrance to a manufactured home park's apartments sit on an existing collector street, or within 500 feet along the street of a major street on the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Commission's adopted General Regional Plan. These MH and R-3 provisions govern multi-family parking lots and internal driveways inside those two zoning districts specifically; the Zoning Regulations do not carry a separate blanket rule barring single-family homeowners countywide from parking on grass or gravel in a front yard, so no equivalent paving mandate applies outside districts that specifically impose one.