Fremont, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

180 treats boats, campers, travel trailers and similar recreational items as 'equipment' rather than passenger vehicles, and subsection (e)(2) bars that equipment, along with any nonmotorized vehicle and any motor vehicle over 25 feet, from being parked or stored on a residential driveway. The only relief is a temporary window: such equipment may sit on the driveway for loading or unloading, or while being prepped for or returning from a trip, outing or vacation, but that stay cannot exceed two consecutive days, or more than three days in any seven-day period.

Outside the driveway, an RV, boat or trailer can be kept in a side or rear yard parking area under subsection (d), subject to real limits: it cannot exceed the height allowed for an accessory structure, must stay at least five feet from any door or window opening of the dwelling, cannot occupy more than 20 percent of the required rear yard area, and cannot sit within five feet of the rear lot line or three feet of the side lot line unless a one-hour fire-resistive wall separates it from that line.

Subsection (f) then requires any such equipment parked in a side or rear yard to be screened from adjacent lots and streets by a fence, wall, hedge or similar structure at least five feet high. A front-yard carport does not escape this screening duty either; equipment not allowed on the driveway under (e) still must be screened under (f)(2) if parked in a front-yard carport. No permit application is built into the section itself, though the city manager may adopt administrative regulations under subsection (a)(3).