Cathedral City, CA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Chapter 12.28 of the Cathedral City Municipal Code governs stopping, standing and parking on city streets. Section 12.28.040 prohibits an owner or person in control of a vehicle from parking it upon any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two hours, and lets any police department member authorized by the chief of police remove the vehicle in the manner and subject to the requirements of the Vehicle Code.

Section 12.28.060 sets the curb position. On a two-way roadway with adjacent curbs, the right-hand wheels must be parallel with and within eighteen inches of the right-hand curb, and motorcycles must have at least one wheel or fender touching it. Where no curbs or barriers bound the roadway, right-hand parallel parking is required unless otherwise indicated. On a one-way street a vehicle can park within eighteen inches of the left-hand curb facing traffic unless signs prohibit it. On a highway with two or more separate roadways, no one can stand or park on the left-hand side of a one-way roadway unless signs permit it. A commercial vehicle actually loading or unloading freight or goods can back up to the curb if it does not extend beyond the centerline of the street or block traffic.

Other limits in the same chapter: § 12.28.030 bars stopping, standing or parking in a parkway paralleled by curbs; § 12.28.050 bars parking on a roadway to display a vehicle for sale as a business or to wash, wax, grease or repair it, except for emergency repairs; § 12.28.160 bars recreational vehicles, motorhomes, boats and trailers from public streets except for loading, unloading or cleaning, with a thirty-six consecutive hour limit, a forty-eight hour wait before re-parking within one-half mile, and a cap of six days per month; and § 12.28.150 lets Cathedral City police officers, Riverside County sheriff's deputies or California Highway Patrol members impound an illegally parked vehicle where signs give notice of removal.