West Palm Beach, FL Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

City Code § 94-487, part of Chapter 94's zoning and land development regulations, splits residential-district vehicles into two classes. A "prohibited vehicle" includes a mobile home, a trailer or semitrailer longer than ten feet (excluding boat trailers), a commercial truck, truck tractor, bus, dump truck, commercial motor vehicle, park trailer, or construction machinery like front-end loaders and bulldozers, and none of these may be parked or stored anywhere in a residential district, public or private, including a yard, setback, right-of-way, swale or parkway. A "restricted vehicle," meaning a motor vehicle or RV over seven feet tall, a trailer under ten feet, a truck over 10,000 pounds GVWR, or a boat, is allowed on private residential property only if it is owned by the occupant, unoccupied, kept in operable condition with no on-site engine or transmission repairs, and currently registered.

Section 94-487(b)(4) sets a preference order for where a restricted vehicle may sit: first a garage, carport, rear yard or side yard behind the front building line, then the rear setback, then the side setback behind the front building line. Under (b)(5) and (b)(6), the vehicle must be screened from abutting properties and, in a front yard or setback, parked on a smooth nondusting surface such as concrete or pavers; a side or rear setback must be grass or another nondusting surface. Anyone who disagrees with a planning and zoning administrator's location or screening decision can apply to the zoning board of appeals for a waiver.

Separately, City Code § 86-229 makes it unlawful to park any prohibited or restricted vehicle on a public street, alley or right-of-way within a residential district or pedestrian priority zone, with limited exceptions for active construction, disabled vehicles removed within 24 hours, and routine tradesman deliveries.