Las Vegas, NV Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

LVMC 19.06.040(G) sets the citywide parking rules that apply across every zoning district's dimensional standards tables. Every building or land use, and every existing use that expands, must provide off-street parking and loading in the amounts set by the Table of Permitted Uses in LVMC 19.12.070; existing spaces cannot later be reduced below that minimum. All required on-site parking has to sit on the same parcel as the use it serves, except where the Title's off-site parking provisions apply, and parking on the public right-of-way never counts toward satisfying an on-site requirement.

Subsection (G)(3) is the paving mandate: all parking and vehicle storage areas in residential land use districts, including recreational vehicle parking, must occur on paved areas and meet the conditions in LVMC Chapter 19.12 for "Vehicle Parking, Storage or Repair in Residential Zoning Districts." The only carve-out is for parking surfaces serving temporary real estate sales offices, which the Department of Public Works may approve in decomposed granite, chat or reclaimed asphalt paving instead of standard pavement.

Subsection (G)(5) lets a single-family home's driveway count toward its minimum on-site parking requirement, provided there is enough room to meet the minimum design standards and no vehicle has to be moved to let another vehicle leave. Multi-family developments carry a separate handicapped parking obligation: one accessible space for every dwelling unit designed for occupancy by a person with a disability, with side-loading wheelchair lift spaces sized under LVMC 19.08.110(C)(3)(b).