Clinton Township, MI Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

04(a)(2) regulates recreational vehicles, defined to include boats, personal watercraft, snowmobiles, truck campers, travel trailers, motor homes, and utility trailers, stored or parked on lots in the R or RT Residential Districts. The vehicles cannot have fixed connections to electricity, water, gas, or sanitary sewer, and can never be used for living, sleeping, or housekeeping. If not stored in a garage, an RV or boat must sit in a rear yard or a non-required side yard, and the minimum required side yard setback must still be maintained between the vehicle and the side lot line.

No more than two recreational vehicles may be parked or stored on a lot outside an enclosed building, though a boat and its trailer used together count as a single vehicle. A recreational vehicle may occupy a required side or front yard for up to 48 hours for loading and unloading, provided it does not block sightlines from driveways. Beyond 48 hours, only vehicles owned by and licensed or registered to the lot's occupant may remain parked there, and the vehicle must be fully operable, insured, readily movable, kept in good repair, and display a current license plate or registration.

Every stored recreational vehicle must sit on a storage pad of concrete, asphalt, patio blocks, stone, gravel, or similar material sized to fit entirely under the vehicle, maintained to prevent vegetation from growing underneath. Parking or storing any recreational vehicle on public property, including the planting strip between sidewalk and curb, sidewalks, rights-of-way, or public streets, is prohibited except during the 48-hour loading window. 99 as a Zoning Code misdemeanor.