Winter Park, FL Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Section 58-86(c)(2)b of the Winter Park Code governs parking on single-family, duplex, cottage dwelling, garage apartment and similar residential lots. It has three working parts. First, parking spaces established to meet the minimum requirements of the section cannot be located within the first 20 feet of any required front yard or required street side yard for the zoning district. Second, motorized vehicles cannot be parked on the grass, lawn, landscaped or unlandscaped areas along any street frontage when they are visible from the street. Approved driveway surfaces are the carve-out. Third, parking has to be provided within an area whose surface is specifically prepared for parking and surfaced with concrete, asphalt, brick or similar approved material delineating the parking space. That area must also comply with the allowable impervious area for the property.

A separate residential driveway provision in Sec. 58-71(m) adds layout limits. Any residential sidewalk, driveway, parking space or other vehicle circulation area, whether paved with asphalt, concrete or brick or unpaved with gravel, mulch or dirt, has to be set back at least two feet from side or rear property lines. Exceptions cover a common drive permitted between adjoining properties, and a nonconforming drive that does not create a drainage problem for an adjacent property. In all single-family residential districts a driveway must be a minimum of nine feet wide, unless the city engineer requires otherwise. On lots 60 feet wide or less, a one-foot setback can be used along a side lot line, and the drive and parking surfaces must be designed to prohibit the diversion of drainage onto adjacent properties.

For multifamily and nonresidential districts, Sec. 58-86(c)(2)a takes a different approach: parking spaces cannot be located within the required front yard unless the building director permits them under the vehicle use area landscaping requirements of subsection 58-345(e).