Sterling Heights, MI Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Chapter 37, Article II of the Sterling Heights Code of Ordinances, the Commercial Vehicle and Equipment Storage and Parking Ordinance, governs this rule inside city limits in Macomb County, Michigan. Section 37-14(A) applies to all public property in any district. It names public streets, stub streets, rights-of-way, sidewalks and the planting areas between sidewalks and curbs, so a work truck left at the curb overnight is covered just as much as one on the sidewalk.

The definitions in § 37-13 set the reach. A commercial vehicle includes buses, mobile structure trailers, pickup trucks in excess of three-quarter-ton capacity used for commercial purposes, pole trailers, semitrailers, stepvans, trailers, trucks and truck tractors. A bus is a motor vehicle designed to carry more than 12 persons, a truck is a motor vehicle in excess of one-ton capacity, and a mobile structure trailer is at least ten feet wide. Commercial equipment means construction equipment or large equipment used primarily in the course of conducting a trade or business.

Section 37-14(D) is the only carve-out: parking is limited to use of the vehicle or equipment in the performance of a service to the adjacent property, for the period of time necessary to complete that service. A contractor on a driveway job can park at the curb while the work is under way, but not overnight between shifts.

Under § 37-15, responsibility falls on two people in a single family district: the owner of the vehicle and the owner of the residential property where it is kept. The registration plate identifies the vehicle owner, and the most recent tax assessment roll identifies the property owner. Section 37-16 lets the City Council modify the article where topography or physical conditions not caused by the applicant would make enforcement an unusual or undue hardship.