Lakeville, MN Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Lakeville's on-street parking chapter, City Code section 6-1-1-3, layers a general time limit on top of a seasonal overnight rule. Subsection A prohibits leaving a motor vehicle, trailer, boat, snowmobile or seasonal vehicle on any city street, alley or city-owned parking lot for more than forty eight consecutive hours; that forty eight hour cap does not apply to vehicles the city itself owns parked in its own lots. Subsection B layers a stricter winter overnight restriction on top of the forty eight hour rule: no owner may leave such a vehicle on a street or alley between 2:00 A.M. and 6:00 A.M. from November 1 through April 1 of the following year, and the same overnight ban kicks in at any other time the National Weather Service forecasts two or more inches of snow, lasting until the street or alley has been plowed.

The ordinance carves out one exception: residences without an established driveway, including new construction, are exempt from the winter overnight parking restriction. The chief of police and city council set the underlying parking zones and any temporary emergency parking bans under section 6-1-1-1, and section 6-1-4 lets the chief of police have any vehicle violating section 6-1-1-3 towed to a garage or storage lot, with the owner responsible for full towing and storage costs before reclaiming the vehicle and a possessory lien attaching if those costs go unpaid to the city or its contractor.