Miami Beach, FL Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

City Code Sec. 106-8, adopted by Ordinance No. 2024-4658 on November 20, 2024, is the city's specific answer to the common complaint of a car parked across a driveway. It permits a resident, or that resident's invited guest, to block only the resident's own driveway at a single-family home, or the resident's own assigned space at a multifamily building of up to four residences, by parking vehicles one behind the other, provided the building itself does not prohibit the practice. The permission is narrow: in no event may the parked vehicle extend into a travel lane or onto a public street, obstruct any part of a public sidewalk, block an adjacent property owner's sightline needed to safely enter or exit their own driveway or parking space, obstruct a fire hydrant or place material within 15 feet of either side of one, or obstruct a fire exit discharge.

Enforcement of this and the rest of chapter 106 falls to the police department under Sec. 106-4, except for the metered-parking sections the parking director enforces. Because Sec. 106-8 sets no unique fine, a violation is punished as provided in the general penalty section 1-14, and the parking director may separately order an immobilizing device placed on an offending vehicle as a cumulative remedy under Sec. 106-7. The rule effectively resolves disputes between neighbors over whose car is allowed to sit in front of a driveway shared by stacked parking arrangements common on the barrier island's smaller residential lots.