Homestead, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Homestead lets residential lots store recreational boats and RVs, but only within tight size, location and screening limits set by City Code § 30-433(g)-(h). A stored or parked boat cannot exceed 30 feet in length, 102 inches in width or 13 feet 6 inches in height above grade, and how many are allowed scales with lot size: under a half-acre, one boat; a half-acre up to five acres, two boats; five acres or more, three boats. Every boat must sit in the rear yard or side yard behind the front building line, set back at least 10 feet from the rear property line and screened from neighboring lots and rights-of-way with a fence, wall or dense hedge that forms a complete visual barrier; chain-link fencing is prohibited and any gate must be opaque.

Up to two personal watercraft no larger than 5 by 12 feet may substitute for a boat. Boats cannot be lived in, cannot be commercially parked, and must sit on a permitted paved or concrete parking pad. RVs face nearly identical rules: only one RV per residential lot, screened the same way, parked on a paved pad, kept under 30 feet long and 10 feet high, with a current license plate, and never used as living quarters except under an active rebuilding permit after a fire or hurricane, for up to six months.

A guest's RV may stay no more than 14 days. A single lot cannot store a boat and an RV together, or either one alongside a commercial vehicle.