Peoria, IL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

7 of the Unified Development Code, 'Parking of Vehicles in Residential Districts,' sorts every vehicle kept outdoors into two classes. A Class I vehicle, defined to include a recreational vehicle, trailer or a vehicle towing one, may not exceed 23 feet in length, 8 feet in width or 10 feet in height, and if used commercially may not exceed 8,000 pounds gross weight. Up to four Class I units may be kept per lot, and they may only sit in the rear yard or side yard; if a Class I unit sits in a side yard between two houses on adjoining lots, it needs a four-foot setback from the side lot line.

Parking a Class I RV, trailer or boat trailer in the front yard or corner side yard, or closer than four feet to the side lot line between adjoining houses, is prohibited outright. Any vehicle that does not meet the Class I size limits is a Class II vehicle and is banned from every yard in a residential district unless stored inside a completely enclosed garage; zero Class II vehicles may be stored outdoors. When a trailer is hitched to a tow vehicle, the code counts and measures the pair as a single vehicle against the four-unit cap.

Stored vehicles and trailers must sit on an all-weather, dustless surface, asphalt, concrete, brick or interlocking pavers; wheels cannot be removed or the unit fixed to the ground; nobody may live, sleep or keep house in a parked RV; and the storage area must stay free of weeds, debris and combustible material. 6 is not reduced; Class II vehicles remain barred from those lots entirely.