Yuma, AZ Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

02(C), and limits that paved area to 60% of the front yard setback while still preserving adequate on-site stormwater retention. Subsection (C) makes parking any commercial vehicle over one and one-half tons on a residential lot a prohibited commercial use outright. Subsection (D) sets separate rules for recreational equipment, RVs and watercraft stored in a front yard: only low-profile items (boats, jet skis, utility trailers, tent trailers, travel trailers, and truck campers attached to an operational vehicle) qualify, none may sit closer than five feet to the front property line, the item must rest on an approved surface, and each lot is limited to one such vehicle in the front yard.

Subsection (E) permits "ribbon" or "Hollywood" driveways on single- and two-family lots, with hard-surfaced strips at least two feet wide separated by a three-foot pervious strip of grass or decorative rock. 02(C) requires all off-street parking spaces, access ways and loading areas to be paved with masonry, portland cement concrete, asphalted concrete or another durable, dust-free, hard-faced material, with an exception for residential uses in the Agriculture, Suburban Ranch, Low Density Residential (R-1-40) or Residential Estate (RE-35) districts, and for secondary driveways citywide, where gravel or rock is allowed if it is one-quarter to three-quarter inch in size, laid three inches deep, and held within a permanent border.