Redondo Beach, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Restricted hours
- 2:00 a.m. to 5:30 a.m.
- Time limit
- No stop/stand/park over 30 minutes
- Trigger
- City Manager finding plus posted signs
- Central Traffic District
- 30-min cap applies without separate signage
- Separate rule
- 24-hr public lot ban under § 3-7.1319
Summary
Redondo Beach Municipal Code Section 3-7.1310 lets the City Manager designate hazardous or congestion-prone streets where no vehicle may stop, stand or park longer than 30 minutes between 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. once signs are posted; a separate rule extends the same cap citywide inside the Central Traffic District.
(a) Restricted places authorized. The City Manager is hereby directed and authorized to determine those streets and places where the parking of vehicles between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. is hazardous or likely to cause traffic congestion. (b) Signs. When the City Manager has determined that parking upon a street or place between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. is hazardous or likely to create traffic congestion, he or she is hereby authorized and empowered to place and maintain appropriate signs or markings indicating that parking is prohibited for a period of time longer than 30 minutes between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. of any day. (c) Restricted. No person shall stop, stand or park any vehicle for a period of time longer than 30 minutes between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. of any day at any place signed or marked pursuant to the provisions of this section.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4889554; v14 updated 2026-05-12).
Full Breakdown
1310. is hazardous or likely to cause traffic congestion, and only after that finding is made and signs or curb markings are installed does the 30-minute cap during that window take legal effect on that particular block. window. cap automatically to every street within the Central Traffic District, the city's core commercial area, without requiring individual signage findings for each block. The two provisions work together: outside downtown, a driver has to check for posted signs to know whether a street is restricted; inside the Central Traffic District, the restriction applies by default.
1319 addresses a different problem: it bars parking a vehicle, boat, or trailer continuously for a full 24-hour period in a public parking lot, and expressly does not apply to commercially licensed vehicles parked in a designated commercial zone. street restriction and covers off-street public lots rather than curbside parking.
Violations & Fines
Violating the posted 2:00 a.m. to 5:30 a.m. restriction under Section 3-7.1310, or the citywide Central Traffic District version in Section 3-7.1311, is a parking citation enforced by the Redondo Beach Police Department; because neither section names its own penalty, it falls under the Code's general Section 1-2.01(a) rule that an unspecified violation is a misdemeanor unless another provision makes it an infraction.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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