Jackson County, GA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 3-101 of the Unified Development Code governs where recreational vehicles and equipment can sit on residential property. Subsection (a) lists the covered equipment broadly: boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, recreational vehicles, pick-up campers or coaches, motorized dwellings, motor coaches, tent trailers and similar vehicles, and confines their parking or storage to side yards, rear yards, carports, or fully enclosed buildings. Front yard storage is not on that list, so a boat or camper cannot sit in the driveway or front lawn on a long-term basis; the only exception is a 24-hour window anywhere on the residential premises while the equipment is actively being loaded or unloaded.

The subsection also draws a hard line on vacant land: no recreational vehicle or recreational equipment can be stored or maintained on a vacant lot at all, whether or not the owner lives nearby. Subsection (b) closes off the other common workaround: a recreational vehicle cannot be occupied as a permanent residence, and living in one is authorized only inside a designated recreational vehicle park meeting the separate standards of section 3-102, which itself requires public water and sewer connections, a minimum three-acre site and a cap of 30 days per occupancy in most cases.

Together the two subsections mean an RV or boat kept at a house is a storage item only: it has to be tucked into a side yard, rear yard, carport or building, and nobody can live in it there.