Livonia, MI Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 7.09(3) of the Zoning Ordinance, Single-Family Residential Accessory Buildings and Recreational Equipment Storage, governs where an owner can keep an RV, travel trailer, boat, or similar recreational equipment on a residential lot. Unoccupied recreational equipment may be housed inside a residential accessory building such as a garage, and separately, no more than one unit may be stored outdoors in the rear yard. That rear-yard storage cannot spill into the corner side yard, a term defined at Section 15.44.030 of the Livonia Code of Ordinances as the side yard on a corner lot that fronts a street.

Owners get a narrower allowance for driveway parking: one unit of recreational equipment may sit on the front or side driveway temporarily, but only for repairing and maintaining the equipment ahead of a trip, and only for up to 72 hours total in any five-day period. That is a cumulative cap, not a per-instance one, so an owner cannot reset the clock by moving the trailer a few feet. Section 7.09(1) separately caps the accessory building an RV might be stored in: a detached accessory building is limited to 200 square feet on lots without an attached garage, or up to 1,000 square feet combined on larger parcels, with a 16-foot height limit and a two-foot minimum setback from side and rear lot lines.