Sandy Springs, GA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Article V of Chapter 58 applies to City Springs only. Sec. 58-120 defines City Springs by the same boundaries as section 6-175 of the Sandy Springs Code of Ordinances, covers all surface and subsurface areas used for parking any vehicle, and describes the area as one where parking is occupied by patrons of businesses, government offices and public spaces with high need for turnover parking.

Sec. 58-121(a) lists seven prohibited activities. The first bars parking in violation of O.C.G.A. § 40-6-200 et seq., which section 58-1 adopts. The next two bar stopping, standing or parking in an area where a parking receipt is issued or a parking meter is installed without payment, or for longer than has been paid for or than the maximum time indicated by a sign or other notice. Further paragraphs bar parking in any area marked as requiring a parking permit, in any area designated no parking by signage, and, for unauthorized persons, in any area designated as reserved parking. Paragraph (a)(5) is the double-parking rule: no leaving a vehicle standing or parked on the roadway side of a vehicle already stopped, standing or parked at the curb. The rules reach passenger vehicles, automobiles, light trucks, sport utility vehicles and motorcycles, whether attended or unattended.

Subsection (b) exempts an authorized emergency vehicle on official business. Subsection (d) treats food trucks permitted under chapter 26, article IX as subject only to the parts of subsection (a) that do not conflict with their city-issued permit, within areas the city expressly designates.

Subsection (c) governs signs. Whenever a time limit or prohibition applies in designated areas, signs must be erected. If official on-street parking signage and the parking meters conflict on days, hours of enforcement or maximum parking times, the signage controls. Signs are not required to enforce prohibitions of general application in the chapter or state law.

Sec. 58-124 sets the free-parking window: designated parking spaces in the City Springs area are free to the public for up to two hours maximum, first come first serve, excluding valet spaces. Time beyond two hours is allowed only in designated subsurface spaces at posted rates, and during events the city reserves the right to charge event rates.

Enforcement under Sec. 58-122(a) belongs to the parking management service (the private vendor the city contracts with), code enforcement officials operating under the community development department, and the police chief or his designee.