Akron, OH Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Chapter 76's parking regulations spell out nineteen specific places, lettered A through S, where standing or parking a vehicle is illegal on Akron streets, all set out in § 76.15. For drivers dealing with tight residential blocks, the most commonly enforced are blocking a driveway (§ 76.15(B), which bars parking in front of or within five feet of either curb of a public or private driveway), parking within ten feet of a fire hydrant (§ 76.15(D)), parking within an intersection or the thirty feet approaching one (§ 76.15(C)), and parking within twenty feet of a crosswalk (§ 76.15(E)). Section 76.15(P) also caps ordinary on-street parking generally: no vehicle may sit on a street or alley for more than one hour between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. unless a posted sign states a different limit, and § 76.15(M) bars parking within one foot of another parked vehicle.

Section 76.16 governs how a legally parked vehicle must sit at the curb: subsection A requires curb-side wheels to sit parallel to and within twelve inches of the curb, and subsection B is Akron's wrong-way parking rule, prohibiting any vehicle from stopping or parking while facing a direction other than the direction of travel on that side of the street, or a direction other than one posted by the Traffic Engineer. Together these sections let the Police Division's Traffic Section ticket blocked driveways, hydrant encroachments, overtime parking, and wrong-way parking as ordinary parking infractions.