Jacksonville, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Part 6 of the Zoning Code, Sec. 601, requires off-street parking and loading facilities for all development within the City, maintained for as long as the use they serve continues. Sec. 602(a) defines a 'parking space, off-street' as an 'all-weather surfaced off-street storage space,' outside or within a building, with adequate room to park and open doors. Sec. 607(f) turns that definition into a maintenance standard: parking and loading facilities must be maintained in a smooth, well-graded, paved or hard-surfaced condition. The only carve-out is for large lots, parking areas of 50 or more required spaces can leave up to 30 percent of those spaces stabilized and sodded rather than paved, but those sodded spaces must be marked and delineated by area and row and cannot also count toward required landscaping.

Facilities must also drain so as not to cause a nuisance on adjacent property under (f)(2). If a pervious material such as bark or gravel is used instead of solid pavement, (f)(3) requires it to be at least three inches thick and held in place by a permanent contiguous border or curb, not left loose. This surfacing rule is separate from Sec. 409, which restricts where boats, trailers and recreational vehicles may be parked on a residential lot; Sec. 607(f) instead governs what the driveway or parking surface itself must be made of, for any vehicle, on any development citywide.