Rohnert Park, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Section 10.40.230, titled 'All night parking, Prohibited,' does not ban overnight street parking outright; instead it targets the pre-dawn window by making it unlawful to stop, stand or park a vehicle on any street for longer than thirty minutes between two a.m. and four a.m. of any day. The only stated exception covers a regularly licensed physician's vehicle while the physician is actually engaged in making a professional call, reflecting the ordinance's original 1965 purpose of keeping streets clear for street sweeping and emergency access during the lowest-traffic hours rather than preventing residents from parking overnight generally.

The rule sits in Chapter 10.40, Stopping, Standing and Parking, alongside the city's broader overnight-adjacent tools: Section 10.40.044 lets the city council designate, by resolution, specific streets where stopping, parking or standing is restricted at any hour, and Section 10.40.046 lets the council set the actual restricted hours, defined in that section as falling between six a.m. and eight p.m., which is a separate mechanism from the fixed 2 to 4 a.m. window in Section 10.40.230. Signs must be posted at intervals not exceeding two hundred feet under Section 10.40.048 before any such council-designated restriction takes legal effect, and violating a posted restriction is treated the same as violating Section 10.40.230 itself.