Hillsboro, OR Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

HMC 6.12.040(A) sets three baseline prohibitions for recreational vehicles and trailers unless the Code separately authorizes an exception. No one may park, store or leave an RV or trailer on a public street, or on a lot the City owns or operates, for more than 24 hours, unless the vehicle or trailer belongs to a public agency. No one may live, sleep or reside in an RV or trailer parked on a lot or public street unless that street or lot is designated for overnight camping. And no one may park, store or leave an RV or trailer containing items or materials that meet the Code's nuisance definition, on public or private property, for more than 24 hours.

Subsection B is the residential parking exception homeowners rely on: an uninhabited RV or trailer can sit on a public street for up to 5 cumulative days in any 14-day period, but only if it is parked directly in front of the owner's own property, does not interfere with emergency, utility or postal vehicles, and otherwise complies with state law. That 5-day, 14-day allowance is narrower than the flat 24-hour ban it modifies, and it disappears the moment anyone lives or sleeps in the vehicle.

Subsection C adds a safety override: an RV or trailer carrying hazardous, combustible or explosive materials, parked in a residential zone or near a school, hospital, nursing facility or any other place where groups gather, is declared an immediate hazard and can be removed immediately on the Manager's authority, without the notice-and-wait process that applies to ordinary violations elsewhere in the Code.