Highlands County, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Highlands County Code § 9-102 is the parking and maintenance ordinance for the Sun 'n Lake of Sebring Improvement District, the special-benefit district covering the Sun 'n Lake community in unincorporated Highlands County near Sebring; it does not apply county-wide. The section defines a 'prepared surface' as the part of a yard modified for parking that does not exceed 50 percent of the front yard, does not sit behind the front line of the house, meets the district's setback requirements, and is built at least two inches deep from concrete, concrete pavers, asphalt, crushed concrete, crushed shell, crushed limestone or rock; grass and mulch do not qualify, and the surface must be bordered with curbing or landscape timbers to keep loose material from scattering.

With that definition in place, subsection (i)(1) bars parking any operational motor vehicle on the front yard outside the prepared surface, whether the vehicle belongs to the resident or is merely allowed to remain there, and it separately bars parking behind or to the side of a structure, behind the front building line, except on a temporary basis. The only carve-out is for social guests, who may park on the lawn for up to two separate 24-hour periods in a calendar month; beyond that, no vehicle may sit on the grass. The rule sits alongside the district's companion restrictions on commercial-vehicle and recreational-vehicle parking in the same section.