Longmont, CO Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

102(1) bars stopping, standing or parking on a sidewalk, within an intersection or crosswalk, within 30 feet of a safety zone, alongside a street excavation, on the roadway side of a parked vehicle, on a bridge or in a tunnel, on railroad tracks, on a controlled-access highway, in a divided highway's median or crossover, in an undesignated area of a public park, or in a marked bicycle lane. Subsection (2) adds distance buffers: 5 feet from a driveway, 15 feet from a fire hydrant, 20 feet from an intersection crosswalk or from an intersection with no crosswalk, 30 feet on approach to a flashing beacon, stop sign, yield sign or signal, 20 feet from a fire station driveway (75 feet on the opposite side if signposted), 30 feet on approach and 20 feet beyond a mid-block crosswalk, and any marked fire lane.

Subsection (3) adds a 50-foot buffer from a railroad crossing and bars parking a "junked" vehicle anywhere in the city under chapter 11. 16: a ticket lists the date, time, location, code section and fine, and the registered owner has 60 days to pay or contest it, either through a free informal administrative review (filed within 20 days, decided within 20) or a formal hearing before the municipal court ($25 fee, filed within 60 days).