Flint, MI Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- Zoning Code § 50-105
- General placement
- Behind front building line
- Interior side yard rule
- 60+ ft back, 5+ ft from line
- Utility hookups
- Not permitted while stored
- Mobile homes
- Prohibited outside licensed parks
Summary
Flint restricts parking of travel trailers, campers, motor homes and boat trailers on residential property to specific yard locations, and bans storing mobile homes outside licensed parks.
No person shall park nor occupy any trailer, mobile home or recreation and camping equipment on any premises outside an approved trailer park or mobile home park except as previously authorized in this chapter. Recreation and camping equipment defined as travel trailers, pickup campers, motor homes, folding tent trailers, and watercraft trailers may be parked on any residential property subject to the following conditions: ... it must be stored or parked to the rear of the front building line and not in a required side street sideyard or required interior sideyard.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2016 Code: Local legislation current through Ordinance 3821, passed 3-1-2012).
Full Breakdown
Under Chapter 50 (Zoning), Article XX, the City of Flint lets residents keep travel trailers, pickup campers, motor homes, folding tent trailers and watercraft trailers on residential property, but only behind the front building line and clear of any required side yard: an interior side yard works only if the equipment sits at least 60 feet behind the front property line and at least 5 feet from a side or rear lot line, or is kept on the driveway to the rear of the front building line. The equipment cannot carry fixed electric, water, gas or sanitary sewer hookups and can never be used for living or housekeeping. Mobile homes are barred from residential lots outside a licensed trailer or mobile home park outright, per City of Flint Code of Ordinances § 50-105.
Violations & Fines
Parking recreation equipment ahead of the required setback, hooking up utilities to stored equipment, or living in it, is a zoning violation; parking or storing a mobile home on a residential lot outside a licensed park is flatly prohibited.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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