Barrow County, GA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Sec. 89-726(b) of the Unified Development Code covers the recreational equipment that Barrow County's growing subdivisions accumulate: travel trailers, recreational vehicles, campers, motorized homes, boats, personal watercraft, wave runners, all-terrain vehicles and trailers of any type. None of these may sit in the front yard, or in any other yard, of a residential lot except as the section itself allows. The allowed locations are narrow: an enclosed garage or carport, or a rear or side yard, and even there the vehicle must stay more than 20 feet from the rear property line and more than ten feet from the side property line.

A boat parked beside the house, nine feet off the side line, still violates the section even though it looks close enough; the setbacks are measured, not estimated. Subsection (c) adds a separate restriction that applies to the same list of vehicles: none of them may be occupied for sleeping or used as a residence, whether permanently or temporarily, while parked under this section, closing off the option of living in a driveway-parked camper. This is a different rule from Sec. 89-726(a)'s ban on wreckers, dump trucks and other commercial equipment in residential districts; a boat or RV is regulated for where it sits, while a commercial truck is banned outright except for agricultural use on AG or AR land.

Complaints are handled the same way as other UDC violations, through the planning and community development director's inspection and cease-and-desist authority under Sec. 89-1446, with prosecution available under Sec. 89-1447.