Arlington Heights, IL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

1 of the Arlington Heights zoning code governs where recreational vehicles sit on a residential lot, and the "Recreational Vehicle (RV)" definition in Section 28-3 is broad: it expressly includes camper trailers, motor homes, off-road vehicles, open trailers, pickup campers, snowmobiles, travel trailers, and water craft, so a boat on a trailer is regulated the same way a motor home is. RVs can never park in the front yard, between the front building line and the street. In a side yard, no more than two RVs are allowed; a single RV cannot exceed 20 feet in length, or a combined 20 feet if two are parked end to end; height is capped at four feet; and any RV in an interior side yard must sit at least three feet from the side lot line, screened by a five-foot evergreen hedge or a five-foot semi-open wood fence.

In a rear yard, the length cap rises to 32 feet, the height cap to 12 feet, and the setback to five feet from the rear lot line and three feet from any interior lot line, with the same evergreen or fence screening required. No RV may sit in an exterior side yard or in the part of a rear yard facing a street. Village-wide, no more than two RVs total may be parked on any residential lot, none may ever be lived in, slept in, or connected to gas, water, or sewer service, the parking surface must be hard (concrete, asphalt, or crushed stone), wheels cannot be removed, and temporary loading or unloading is capped at two days within any four consecutive days.