Palm Desert, CA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Chapter 10.48 of the Palm Desert Municipal Code, Stopping, Standing and Parking, applies at all times or at the times it specifies, except when stopping is necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or to comply with a police officer or official traffic-control device.

Section 10.48.020 prohibits stopping, standing or parking a vehicle within any parkway, which Section 10.04.090 defines as that portion of a street other than a roadway or a sidewalk. Section 10.48.040 lists no-parking areas, including divisional islands, either side of a street between the projected property lines of a public walk or thoroughfare ending at that street, railway tracks, areas the city traffic engineer finds hazardous and marks with signs or red curb paint, areas within twenty feet of a crosswalk at an intersection where marked by signs or red paint, and any place within twenty feet of the approach to a traffic signal, boulevard stop sign or official electric flashing device. Street work areas need no-parking signs erected at least twenty-four hours before the restriction takes effect.

Section 10.48.050 bars parking a vehicle on any street or alley for more than a consecutive period of seventy-two hours. Businesses that repair, grease or dismantle vehicles must use city-approved off-street parking. Section 10.48.230 prohibits having a vehicle on El Paseo, Palm Desert Drive North or Palm Desert Drive South, curb to curb, between two a.m. and six a.m. of any day, the street sweeping restriction for the commercial district.

On narrow streets, Section 10.48.100 authorizes the city traffic engineer to sign no parking where the roadway width does not exceed twenty feet, or on one side where it does not exceed thirty feet. On grades exceeding three percent in a business or residence district, an unattended vehicle needs its wheels blocked under Section 10.48.110. Green curb means no standing or parking longer than twenty minutes between nine a.m. and six p.m. except Sundays and holidays, and forty-minute, one-hour and two-hour limits apply during the same hours where signs, meters or curb markings are in place. On one-way streets, Section 10.48.190 allows parking within eighteen inches of the left-hand curb unless signs prohibit it.