Carmel, IN Parking Rules: Oversized Vehicle Parking (2026)

Carmel addresses oversized vehicles through both its street-parking rules and its residential-district rules. Under Section 8-46, no freight-carrying vehicle of one-ton capacity or more, nor any vehicle more than 20 feet in length, may park on any City street except while engaged in loading or unloading freight. This keeps large box trucks, oversized trailers and heavy commercial equipment off public streets except during active deliveries. In residential districts, Section 6-109 prohibits commercial vehicles over 20 feet, and any semi-tractor, semi-trailer, trailer or construction vehicle of any size, from parking on public or private property for more than four hours unless temporarily there for a bona fide service, construction, sale or delivery. Recreational vehicles, which are often oversized, are separately limited under the Zoning Ordinance: motorized RVs may sit in the right-of-way no more than ten days per month and non-motorized RVs not at all, with on-lot storage required to be on the driveway or in the garage and set back from lot lines. There is no general permit in the code authorizing long-term street storage of oversized vehicles in residential areas.