Youngstown, OH Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

Youngstown Codified Ordinances Section 351.20, Parking Time Restricted for Boats and Vehicles, bars parking a vehicle or boat on any street, highway or public place within the City for display, sale, storage or repair purposes, and it defines 'storage' precisely as any period of time in excess of forty-eight hours, tracing to 1967 Code Section 73.16. That definition means a boat or RV can sit on a public street for up to two days before it is treated as unlawful storage rather than routine parking.

Section 351.21, Parking Trailers on Residential Lots Restricted, separately governs trailers on private residential property: no person may park or occupy any trailer on a lot in a residential district situated outside an approved trailer camp. The section allows one exception: a single unoccupied trailer may be kept in an accessory private garage or in a rear yard, provided no one lives in it and no business is conducted from it while parked or stored there. An emergency exception lets the Building Inspector grant permission to depart from this rule during an emergency.

This section dates to 1967 Code Section 152.06, reflecting Youngstown's zoning-era approach to keeping trailers out of residential neighborhoods as living quarters. Together, the two sections mean an RV or boat cannot be left on the street past two days, and a residential yard cannot host an occupied trailer or one used for business at any time, though an unoccupied trailer in a garage or rear yard is permitted.