Redding, CA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Front/street-side setback
- RV, boat, trailer storage prohibited
- Allowed area
- Interior side yard or rear yard
- Temporary exception
- 72 hours per week, loading/unloading
- Exempt vehicle type
- Class B van-conversion motor homes
- Governing section
- RMC § 18.31.030(8)
- Waiver path
- Zoning exception, Chapter 18.15
Summary
Redding bars recreational vehicles, campers, boats and trailers from sitting in a residential front-yard or street-side setback under Municipal Code Section 18.31.030(8), though owners may keep them in an interior side yard or rear yard, or park one in front for up to seventy-two hours a week for active loading and unloading.
(8)Recreational Vehicle Storage. Recreational vehicles, including, but not limited to, motor homes, travel trailers, detached campers/shells, boats, and trailers of all types shall not be stored within any front-yard or street side-yard setback unless a zoning exception is granted pursuant to Chapter 18.15. Such vehicles are permitted to be stored in interior side-yard or rear-yard setback areas. Items stored within the setback areas must be placed so as to prevent violations of the California Building Code with respect to egress, natural light, and ventilation and shall not contribute to or constitute blight, as defined by the Redding Municipal Code. The regulations of this section do not apply to: (1) Class B motor homes (commonly known as "van conversions") which otherwise comply with applicable parking standards and (2) temporary parking of recreational vehicles as necessary for customary active loading and unloading activities associated with the intended use of the vehicles for a period not to exceed seventy-two hours in a one-week period.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 48).
Full Breakdown
15. The same subsection expressly permits storage of these vehicles "in interior side-yard or rear-yard setback areas," so a driveway running along the side of a house, behind the front setback line, remains available. Anything parked within a setback area must be positioned so it does not violate California Building Code requirements for egress, natural light, or ventilation, and cannot "contribute to or constitute blight" as the Redding Municipal Code defines that term. Two carve-outs relax the rule further: Class B motor homes, the smaller "van conversion" style RVs, are exempt entirely as long as they otherwise meet parking standards, and any recreational vehicle may sit in a front setback for up to seventy-two hours within a one-week period for the "customary active loading and unloading" tied to actually using the vehicle.
The section also folds in a companion paving rule: outside driveways, walkways and porches, the area between the front lot line and the dwelling generally cannot be paved for parking, with limited exceptions such as a twenty-foot-wide strip beside a driveway or additional director-approved paving to the rear yard, and RV parking on that added pavement must still comply with the recreational-vehicle-storage schedule.
Violations & Fines
Keeping a motor home, travel trailer, camper, boat, or trailer in a front-yard or street-side setback beyond the seventy-two-hour loading exception, without a Chapter 18.15 zoning exception, is enforced as a Title 18 zoning violation under Chapter 18.25, which gives the development services director authority over property uses that don't conform to the site development standards. A stored vehicle that blocks required egress, light or ventilation, or rises to the level of blight as defined in the Redding Municipal Code, is independently actionable regardless of which yard it sits in.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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