Milpitas, CA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Milpitas Municipal Code § V-100-10.01 opens Chapter 100's stopping and parking rules by making them apply 'at all times' on Milpitas streets unless a specific time window is posted, with narrow exceptions for a driver avoiding a collision or obeying a police officer or a traffic signal. Built on that baseline, § V-100-10.05 tells drivers which way they can face when they park. Milpitas' text addresses the one-way case directly: a vehicle may stop or park within 18 inches of the left-hand curb, facing in the direction of traffic movement, on a one-way street, but only where signs are not posted prohibiting that stop.

Where a highway has two or more separate one-way roadways, no one may stand or park on the left side of that roadway unless a sign specifically permits it there. The Chief Police Officer decides, street by street, when left-side parking on a one-way roadway should be allowed or barred, and must post signs giving notice of that decision before it can be enforced. Read together, these two sections function as Milpitas' rule against parking the wrong way: because standing and parking are prohibited unless a section or a posted sign affirmatively allows them, parking against the flow of traffic, or on the left side of a one-way street without a permitting sign, falls outside every affirmative grant in the chapter and is therefore unlawful.

As with the rest of Chapter 100, a citation for parking the wrong way against traffic is a civil penalty enforced through the administrative citation process in Section 17, not a criminal charge, and is written by the Milpitas Police Department.