Peoria County, IL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

5 requires that required parking spaces and access aisles be paved with a hard, all-weather material such as asphalt, concrete, paver block, brick, or stone whenever the development sits within one and a half miles of a municipality that has adopted a comprehensive plan under 65 ILCS 5/11-12-4, inside any incorporated area, within I-74 or I-474 interchange development areas, or within an urban or village area on the county's Land Use Form Map. Handicapped parking spaces must be paved that way regardless of location. Developments outside those zones can use a graded, durable surface instead of full paving, but it still has to hold up to weather and use.

7 governs where residents can actually park on their own lot. Passenger automobiles may be parked anywhere on the lot except in the front setback, where parking is confined to the driveway itself or to an all-weather surface nine feet wide running adjacent and parallel to the driveway; a car cannot simply be parked on unimproved grass or dirt in the front yard outside those two locations. That front-yard restriction works together with the broader limit in the same section capping outdoor vehicle storage at four automobiles per lot for more than seventy-two continuous hours, and with the ban on parking on a vacant lot unless it is under the same ownership as an adjoining developed parcel.