Alameda, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

11 makes it unlawful to park or leave unattended any recreational vehicle as defined in Health and Safety Code Section 18010, any trailer as defined in Vehicle Code Section 630, or any boat trailer, whether or not it is hitched to a tow vehicle, on the streets of the City of Alameda. Violating vehicles may be towed to and stored at an impound facility at the owner's expense, the same remedy the Code uses for overstaying vehicles and heavy commercial vehicles elsewhere in Chapter VIII.

The only carve-out is a temporary permit issued by the Alameda Police Department: a permitted RV, trailer or boat trailer may park on the street, but the permit cannot exceed a 24-hour period, and no more than two temporary permits may be issued for any single recreational vehicle, trailer or boat trailer within a single calendar month. That means an owner effectively gets 48 hours of legal street parking per month for a given rig before running out of permits, a meaningfully tighter cap than the 72-hour rule that governs ordinary vehicles elsewhere in the same chapter. The rule was adopted by Ordinance No. in January 2010 and clarified the same year by Ordinance No. S.