Murrieta, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Section 10.44.020(A) is Murrieta's front-yard ban on recreational and oversized vehicles: no person may park, keep, or store an oversized vehicle, recreational vehicle, non-self-propelled vehicle (the code's catch-all for boats, campers, camper shells, and utility or boat trailers), or vessel within any part of the front yard setback, as that setback is defined elsewhere in the Municipal Code. Keep the same vehicle somewhere else on the private lot and the code allows it, but only if it is screened to the fence height the code otherwise requires for that property, using wrought iron fencing, landscape material, or lattice as the named acceptable materials.

A recreational vehicle gets a narrow travel exception: it may sit in the open, including the front yard, for a total of 48 hours before a recreational trip and 48 hours after, and that window cannot be combined with any other public right-of-way parking exemption the code allows. A separate carve-out lets smaller commercial vehicles, those weighing 10,000 pounds or less, no wider than 92 inches, no longer than 21 feet, and no taller than 8 feet, park in the front yard setback on an approved surface, capped at two such vehicles per residence; that carve-out does not extend to RVs, trailers, or boats.

Section 10.44.020(F) adds a sightline rule that reaches the same vehicles: one parked on a residential lot or front yard setback that blocks a neighbor's view when entering or exiting the public right-of-way can be ordered relocated or removed once the city finds it creates a safety hazard.