Smyrna, GA Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Chapter 62 of the Smyrna Code, Manufactured Homes and Trailers, holds the recreational vehicle rules in Sec. 62-1. Subsection (b) bars parking any motor home or travel trailer on any street, alley, highway or other public place, with two exceptions: an emergency, or temporary stopping or parking for not longer than 24 hours. Even then, the traffic and parking regulations for that particular street, alley or highway still apply.

On private property, subsection (e) limits each single-family residential lot, under any zoning classification, to no more than one motor home, travel trailer or camping trailer. That vehicle cannot be parked in the front of the dwelling unless it sits on a hard surface pad or a driveway accessory to the dwelling. Subsection (d) says no travel trailer can be maintained as a residence except in an approved park or lot that is properly zoned and licensed for that activity, so a trailer cannot serve as a home on an ordinary residential lot. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful to maintain or operate a mobile home or travel trailer park or camp, or to park or maintain a mobile home or travel trailer in the city, except as the chapter provides. Mobile homes have their own rule in subsection (c): outside a licensed mobile home park or sales lot, one can be parked or maintained only in cases of extreme hardship, approved by the Mayor and Council after review and recommendation by the zoning and planning board.

The zoning ordinance in Appendix A defines a camping trailer as any portable structure or vehicle designed for highway travel that is used or intended to be used for living, sleeping, cooking or eating, and not intended for permanent residence. Chapter 62 does not mention boats. Boats and trailers in a wrecked, junked, dismantled or inoperative condition fall under Sec. 80-5 of the property maintenance chapter, which makes it unlawful to let them remain in outside storage on a dwelling unit, place of business or vacant lot.