Kenner, LA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

The Unified Development Code's yard-regulation article, which governs the use restrictions applying to required front, side, and rear yards citywide, states plainly that motor vehicle parking is prohibited in the required front yard except on paved driveways. That single sentence sits alongside related front-yard and corner-side-yard restrictions in the same section: no A-frames, workbenches, or similar structures may be placed or stored in the front yard or in the side yard abutting the side street on corner lots, and no automotive repair work beyond minor adjustments (distributor, carburetor, alternator, water pump, radiator, muffler, or brake work on a resident-owned, address-registered vehicle) may be performed in those same yard areas.

Read together, the article treats the front yard as off-limits to vehicle storage on unpaved surfaces, meaning a car parked on grass, dirt, gravel, or an unimproved strip beside a driveway is out of compliance even though the driveway itself is legal. The Department of Inspections and Code Enforcement administers this yard-regulation article, and because it is paired with the repair-work and outdoor-storage restrictions in the same section, an inspector responding to a front-yard parking complaint typically checks the same property for unpermitted repair work or outdoor storage under the adjoining subsections.