St. Petersburg, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)
Key Facts
- Max pieces outside enclosure
- two per residential lot
- Size cap
- 35 ft long, 8 ft wide, 12 ft tall
- Front-yard placement
- prohibited outside limited weekend window
- Screening trigger
- 6-ft fence/hedge within 50 ft of street
- Waterfront exception
- one launchable boat only
Summary
St. Petersburg limits residential lots to two pieces of 'domestic equipment', RVs, boats, trailers, jet skis, parked outside a garage, capped at 35 feet long, eight feet wide and 12 feet tall under City Code Section 16.40.100.5, and bans them from the front yard outside a narrow weekend window.
A.No person shall park, allow to be parked, place, allow to be placed, store, or allow to be stored more than two pieces of domestic equipment on neighborhood zoned property outside a legally constructed fully enclosed structure. Any domestic equipment parked, placed, or stored on neighborhood zoned property outside a fully enclosed structure shall not exceed 35 feet in overall length, shall not exceed eight feet in width and shall not exceed 12 feet in overall height. ... 4.No equipment shall be in a waterfront yard except one boat is allowed to be placed or stored within any waterfront yard only when provisions exist to place the boat directly in the water from its location or storage place.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 54).
Full Breakdown
5 of the Land Development Regulations governs how many RVs, boats, trailers, campers and similar 'domestic equipment' a residential lot can keep outside an enclosed structure. No more than two pieces may sit outside a legally constructed, fully enclosed structure, and any that do can't exceed 35 feet in overall length, eight feet in width or 12 feet in height; a piece stored on its own hauling trailer still counts as just one piece. Equipment kept outside must stay in the rear yard, the interior side yard, or the buildable area behind the principal structure: never in the front yard, the street side yard, or the buildable area in front of the house.
If it sits within the buildable area between the street side yard and the house, or within 50 feet of the street right-of-way, it must be screened from the street by a solid six-foot fence or hedge, with any gate kept solid, six feet high and closed except when equipment is moving through it. Equipment stationed near an alley can't block sightlines for cars entering from adjoining driveways, and no boat, RV or trailer may sit in a waterfront yard unless it's a single boat kept where it can be launched directly into the water.
Stored equipment can't block a door, window or other opening that provides light, air or an exit, and it has to stay in sound condition and good repair. m.
Violations & Fines
Each item of domestic equipment found in violation is a separate offense, and every day the violation continues is a separate violation, drawing fines under Section 16.40.100.8's schedule: $100 for a first violation, $175 for a second within a year, $250 for a third, and $500 for a fourth or later violation in that same year.
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