Apple Valley, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

022, governing semi-permanent carports and accessory structures or shelters for the storage of cars, boats, recreational vehicles, trailers, self-propelled equipment and related bulk items, sets the standard for where residents may store an RV or boat on their own property. Subsection (A) permits a carport or shelter built with a metal, wood or other rigid framework, excluding plastic or PVC, no closer than five feet to a side or rear property line, provided no part of the structure sits in a required front or street-side yard setback or on a recorded easement.

1-2). Subsection (B) covers permanent or semi-permanent RV enclosures specifically: they follow the same five-foot side/rear setback and front-yard exclusion, but must have solid, opaque siding over the supporting framework reaching no more than a four-foot gap from the ground. Structures of either type built before July 26, 2006 are grandfathered and may encroach into the side, rear and front setbacks without a building permit, and are excused from the color-matching and siding requirements imposed on new structures. 010(I)(3) separately bars parking a boat, trailer or RV on any vacant or undeveloped lot townwide, with a narrow exception letting up to three registered, operable noncommercial vehicles belonging to an abutting resident park on an adjacent vacant parcel in the single-family residential districts, so long as the parking area is paved to town standards.