Berwyn, IL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 480.03(A) of the Berwyn Code of Ordinances is the rule for recreational and heavy vehicles. It applies to any street, alley, parkway, parking lot or other public right-of-way in the city, and the list of covered vehicles is long: a pickup camper with a cap higher than six inches above the cab roof, a van that exceeds the manufacturer's height, a motor home, a mobile home, a boat or boat trailer, any other trailer, a tractor, a bus, a truck whose gross weight exceeds three-fourths of a ton, and a first or second division vehicle, as defined in the State Vehicle Code, equipped with an attached snow plow. The rule opens with "Except as otherwise provided in this Traffic Code," which preserves the permit and any other exception written into the Traffic Code.

The permit lives in § 480.03(C). It can be granted for a maximum stay of 48 hours for one unoccupied mobile home or motor home per family parked on a residential street, and the owner has to obtain it from the Police Department in advance of the parking. It is displayed in the front windshield of the mobile home or motor home and can be granted not more than twice in a 12-month period. The permit language names only mobile homes and motor homes, so boats, boat trailers and other trailers get no stay at all under this subsection.

Related rules sit nearby. Section 480.04 prohibits parking any unattended motor vehicle on any part of an alley. Parking on a parkway is a separate violation under § 440.03. Section 480.03(B) separately limits commercial vehicles standing on streets or in alleys to the time needed for loading, unloading or a service call. Section 480.03 speaks to public rights-of-way; it does not set a rule for a driveway or yard on private property, so those situations fall outside the text quoted on this page.