Redding, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

080 governs how off-street parking spaces, access points, aisles and driveways must be surfaced in Redding. The general rule for all off-street parking areas is that they be paved with asphalt concrete or Portland cement concrete and kept in continuously maintained, crack-free condition, with only ten percent of required spaces allowed as turf block or permeable paving with the director's approval. Subsection B addresses single-family residential driveways specifically: where a driveway is needed to reach required parking and runs one hundred fifty feet or less off an improved public street, it must be improved for its entire length with asphalt, concrete, or a chip-and-seal surface.

For a driveway longer than one hundred fifty feet, the development services director may waive full paving through a zoning exception, but only if the first thirty feet from the paved street or back of sidewalk is paved, the fire marshal's surfacing standards for emergency access are met, and the unpaved remainder stays at least seventy-five feet from any existing or planned residence. Where a residential driveway does not connect to an improved public or private street at all, surfacing instead follows whatever standard the fire marshal sets for that access.

Gravel surfacing is otherwise reserved for commercial and industrial outside storage or display uses approved through a site development permit, and even then a fifty-foot paved apron is required at the street to keep gravel and dirt off the public right-of-way.