La Mesa, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 24.04.030(E) lets a resident park a recreational vehicle, defined by section 24.01.100 to include boats and boat trailers, campers, tent trailers, motorhomes, travel trailers, and dune buggies, anywhere on the property in an approved parking area except inside an access driveway or aisle serving other required parking. The vehicle must be set back at least ten feet from the existing or planned curb face of the adjacent street and can never extend past the property line. Any RV taller than six feet cannot be located within ten feet, in any direction, of a doorway or window of a habitable room on a neighboring lot, and a parking area within ten feet of an adjoining residential property must be screened by a six-foot view-obscuring fence, wall, or dense landscaping, reduced to four feet if the screening sits in the front setback; that screening requirement drops away if the neighboring lot already has a driveway, parking area, or solid building wall there instead.

Parked vehicles must sit at roughly a ninety-degree angle to the street, and RVs cannot be stored inside a shared driveway easement on panhandle or easement-access lots. If a resident's RV parking cannot meet these standards because of the property's physical layout, section 24.04.030(E)(1) lets the Community Development Director approve an alternative location, and that decision, mailed to owners within three hundred feet, can be appealed to the Planning Commission within twenty-one days.