Johns Creek, GA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

The city's on-street parking rule for residential neighborhoods sits in Chapter 54 (Traffic and Vehicles), Article II, at Sec. 54-40 of the Johns Creek Code of Ordinances. It bars parking any truck or any trailer that the Georgia department of public safety designates for a license tag in a weight category heavier than 6,000 pounds. The test is the tag category on the vehicle, not how large it looks. The ban covers two places: the right-of-way of any residential street, and residential zoned property.

There is one delivery exception. A heavy truck or trailer can stop at a residential property when it is making a delivery to that property. The code words it as parking that is unlawful "unless said vehicle is making a delivery to said residential property," so a truck waiting on the street for a different address does not qualify.

Two other carve-outs are written into the section. School buses do not fall under it. Construction vehicles, trailers or equipment temporarily located within a construction area are also exempt, provided they are used in connection with dwelling units under construction within that construction area. A contractor's trailer parked at a new-build site is covered by the exception; the same trailer left on an unrelated cul-de-sac is not.

Sec. 54-2(c) empowers the Johns Creek police department to enforce all provisions of Chapter 54 upon all roads in the city, and Sec. 54-1 sends every violation of the chapter to the general penalty in Sec. 1-7. The section carries a state law reference to O.C.G.A. §§ 32-6-2(3), 40-6-200 et seq. and 40-6-371, the statutes that authorize a city to regulate parking on its streets.

This page covers only the residential heavy-vehicle rule. Sec. 54-2(b) separately adopts the state Uniform Rules of the Road as the city's traffic regulations. Fire-lane parking has its own rule in Chapter 21, and the Town Center Overlay sets design standards for on-street spaces, including a minimum parallel parking space of 8 feet by 20 feet.