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

Section 58.926 of the Orlando City Code opens with a closed list: only recreational vehicles that meet its conditions are permitted to be parked in residential or office districts. Everything outside the list is off limits. The cleanest route is paragraph (a), an RV parked inside a completely enclosed private garage, provided it does not take the required on-site parking space that the dwelling needs to satisfy its own parking requirement.

Paragraph (b) covers side and rear yards and stacks six conditions. The vehicle must be ten and one-half feet or less in height and twenty-five feet or less in length, measured at the longest and highest points. It must sit on a paved parking surface reached from the street by an approved driveway. A solid wall or solid fence at least six feet high must screen it from adjacent properties. It must be set back at least five feet from the side and rear property line and at least five feet from any adjacent building or structure, and it cannot occupy the required on-site parking space. Front-yard storage is not on the list.

Paragraph (c) allows loading and unloading, capped at thirty-six hours. Paragraph (e) allows a recreational vehicle less than eighty inches wide on a public street, but only if other provisions of the City Code permit parking there. Paragraph (f) lets a multi-family site in an R-3B, R-3C or R-3D district keep a common RV parking area if the Zoning Official approves it, it does not adjoin a single-family district, and a six-foot solid wall or fence screens it from neighbors and the public right-of-way. Paragraph (d) sends an RV that misses (a) and (b) to the variance process in Chapter 65, Part 2J.

Vehicles already parked under a building permit, variance or similar City approval when the ordinance took effect are treated as nonconforming uses under Chapter 58, Part 7D. The same section bars commercial vehicles from streets, driveways and property in residential and office districts, except for loading or unloading or when inside a closed garage, and Section 58.927 bars any commercial vehicle with a gross vehicle load rating above 20,000 pounds from residential districts, even in a garage.