Sussex County, DE Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Section 99-18 of the Sussex County Code, the street design standards article of the subdivision ordinance, sets out where cars may not park along a subdivision street. On-street parking is prohibited within 15 feet of both sides of a fire hydrant (marked per the Delaware State Fire Prevention Regulations), within 20 feet of a traffic control device such as a stop sign or signal, within 10 feet of the point of tangent or point of curvature at an intersection, within 10 feet of a crosswalk, and within 10 feet of a driveway.

These distances apply to roads built and accepted under the subdivision regulations, which govern development in the unincorporated county; incorporated towns such as Rehoboth Beach, Lewes and Milford set their own street parking rules under their own codes. The section also clarifies that these on-street parking restrictions are separate from, and are not counted toward, the off-street parking requirements found in Chapter 115, § 115-162A and B, so a developer cannot use restricted on-street spaces to satisfy a project's required off-street parking count. The standards were last amended by Ordinance No.

2629 on February 5, 2019, which touched several related street-design provisions in the same article, including cul-de-sac and turnaround geometry. Because the hydrant, intersection, crosswalk and driveway clearances are baked into the subdivision plan approval process, they are enforced first at the design and construction-plan stage by the Sussex County Engineering Department before a road is accepted, and then as an ongoing parking restriction once the street is built and signed.