Volusia County, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Chapter 72, Sec. 72-287(b) treats mobile recreational shelters and vehicles, utility trailers, and watercraft as a permitted accessory use in every zoning classification, provided each carries a current license tag or validation sticker, sits on ground kept free of debris and excess weeds, stays out of the street or public right-of-way, and is never hooked to water, sewer or electric lines except inside a licensed RV park. In the county's core residential classifications, RR, R-1 through R-6, R-9, MH-4 through MH-6, and the single- and two-family areas of PUD, subsection (c) layers on extra conditions: the unit must otherwise meet accessory-structure placement rules, and it may only be parked on the driveway in the front yard temporarily, for trip preparation, loading, unloading or cleanup, and never for more than 36 hours in any given week.

Subsection (c)(3) carves out an exception letting an RV or cutaway van sit in the front yard indefinitely if the occupant has a disability requiring the vehicle's facilities and holds a Florida handicapped parking decal, and subsection (c)(4) gives narrow MH-5 waterfront lots a pass on the driveway timing rule for watercraft. Subsection (d) draws the hard line: none of these vehicles may be parked anywhere in the open strip of yard running the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the principal structure, they belong on the driveway, behind the front-yard building setback. The zoning enforcement official administers Article II under Sec. 72-341, and Ord. No. 2024-07 rewrote this section effective June 17, 2025.