Redlands, CA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Front yard paving cap
- No more than 25% of required front yard
- Camper/trailer storage
- Barred from driveway or front yard without permit
- Permit needed
- Minor exception, §§ 18.168.040-18.168.100
- Districts covered
- A-1, A-2, R-A, R-E, R-S, R-1, R-1-D
- Garage requirement
- Two covered spaces per single-family dwelling
Summary
Redlands limits paving in front yards to 25 percent of the required area for driveway access, and bans parking on the rest, which must stay landscaped. Detached campers, trailers, boats and mobilehomes cannot sit in a driveway or front yard unless the resident secures a minor exception permit for a hard-surfaced parking area.
B. All detached truck campers, trailers of any type, including, but not limited to, camping, travel and utility trailers, mobilehomes, boats or other types of watercraft, and similar equipment incapable of movement under its own power shall be parked in an approved parking space or stored in an area screened from the street. No parking or storing is permitted in a driveway or front yard area. ... H. ... No parking is permitted in required landscaped front yard areas. I. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection B of this section, a resident of a residential zoned parcel may park a detached camper, trailer, or watercraft in a designated front yard driveway, or other city approved hard surfaced area in the front yard, of said parcel provided that the resident has obtained a minor exception permit in accordance with sections 18.168.040 through 18.168.100 of this title.
Full Breakdown
100(D), part of the off-street parking chapter, caps driveway paving at not more than twenty-five percent of the required front yard area on each street frontage, requiring the remaining front yard to stay landscaped rather than paved. 130 then governs what can sit on that paved area. Subsection B prohibits parking or storing any detached truck camper, trailer of any type including camping, travel and utility trailers, mobilehome, boat or other watercraft, or similar equipment incapable of movement under its own power, in a driveway or front yard area; such equipment must instead sit in an approved parking space or be screened from the street.
Subsection H separately bars any parking in a required landscaped front yard area. 100, and only if there is no more suitable side or rear yard location, a finding the code allows where compliance would require significant remodeling. 050 reinforces the paving limit: whenever a driveway approach no longer serves a covered parking facility it must be removed and replaced with standard curb and gutter, and any paved front-yard surface no longer providing access to covered parking must be torn out and landscaped. 080.
Violations & Fines
Redlands code enforcement staff can require removal of paving that exceeds the 25 percent front-yard limit, or removal of a camper, trailer, boat or mobilehome improperly stored in a driveway or front yard, and can compel restoration of landscaping under section 18.164.050. A resident who parks such equipment in the front yard without first obtaining the minor exception permit required by section 18.164.130(I) is in violation of the zoning code and subject to the enforcement remedies in Redlands' zoning enforcement chapter, 18.208.
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