Taylorsville, UT Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 13.24.040 is Taylorsville's residential parking chapter, and subsection (A) sets the baseline rule: any area used to park a vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer on a residential lot must be a hard surface such as concrete, asphalt or brick, or another hard surface the director approves, across the front, side and rear yards alike. Parking on landscaped ground, or ground being held for future landscaping, is prohibited outright, closing off the common workaround of just driving onto the lawn. A narrow exception in § 13.24.040(A)(1) lets a single-family lot with animal rights store an animal transport trailer without a hard or gravel surface, as long as it stays within the rear setback.

Subsection (B) then limits how much of the yard can be converted to hard surface for parking even where paving is otherwise allowed: no more than twenty percent of the front yard, not counting the driveway that serves the primary garage; no more than thirty five percent of the rear yard; and only one of the two side yards on the lot. Lots with circular driveways are handled case by case rather than against the flat twenty percent figure, recognizing that a circular driveway design does not fit the standard front-yard math.

Section 13.24.040(F) puts enforcement in the hands of both the police department and Community Development, giving the city two enforcement paths, a code compliance inspection or a police response, for the same violation. Because this sits inside the Title 13 land development code, a violation carries the class C misdemeanor penalty in § 13.02.010(C), with each day of a continuing violation a separate offense under § 13.02.010(E).