Miramar, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 20-49(h), in Miramar's residential parking article, restricts where on a residential lot a vehicle may sit. It bars parking on any part of private property including the lawn area for both commercial and passenger vehicles, permitting parking only in a driveway, carport, or garage. That means gravel pads, mulched beds, side-yard grass, or any other unpaved or non-driveway surface on the lot is off-limits, even if the vehicle never touches the street. The subsection carves out one exception for swale areas, the strip between the road and the property line: passenger cars, but not commercial vehicles, may park there if the abutting residential property owner consents.

Read together with subsection (i), which bars parking any unlicensed vehicle, boat trailer, or RV on public or private property, and subsection (c)'s one-trailer/RV/boat cap, Miramar's driveway rule functions as the backbone of its residential parking scheme: everyday vehicles belong in the driveway, carport, or garage, recreational units get the same locations plus a fenced rear yard, and the lawn itself is never an approved parking surface for any category of vehicle. The rule applies citywide in residential zoning districts and is enforced the same way as the rest of Chapter 20, through police or code enforcement tickets.