Madera, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

511 targets residential properties directly: no person may keep, store or park a trailer, boat, motorcycle or motor vehicle on any portion of a front yard or corner-lot side yard unless that area is paved with asphalt, concrete, gravel or a similar substance. The rule also reaches people who are not the vehicle's owner: subsection (B) makes it a separate violation for a property owner, tenant, manager or occupant to allow or suffer another person to park a vehicle on an unpaved front or side yard.

Subsection (C) is a blanket ban on parking over lawn or any area intended for landscaping, regardless of the vehicle type, closing off the workaround of parking on grass instead of dirt. , passed October 19, 2005, and sits in Title X's Zoning chapter alongside the R-zone development standards, so it applies citywide wherever a residential front yard exists, not just in a single zoning district. Enforcement is not a flat fine: it is a repeat-offender ladder tied to the calendar year and the address, meaning a household that keeps a boat on the dirt strip beside the driveway faces steeper fines each time code enforcement returns.