Miami-Dade County, FL Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

The Miami-Dade Parking Code governs stopping, standing and parking on County and municipal streets, highways and roads in both the incorporated and unincorporated areas of the County, so the curb rules in § 30-49 follow a driver across city lines. The section was last amended by Ord. No. 26-17 on 4-21-26.

The distance rules sit in subsection (2). A driver cannot stop, stand or park on a sidewalk, in an intersection, on a crosswalk, on railroad tracks or on a bicycle path. Beyond those flat bans, a vehicle cannot be parked or stopped, even occupied, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an intersection, or within 30 feet on the approach to a flashing signal, stop sign or traffic control signal. The only relief is momentarily picking up or discharging a passenger. Blocking a public or private driveway is prohibited, and so is parking in an exclusive bicycle lane. Within 20 feet of a fire station driveway, and within 75 feet opposite its entrance when signed, parking is also off limits. Where signs are posted, the same ban reaches the front of theater, hotel and public building entrances, either side of a street next to a school, narrow streets, the left-hand side of a one-way street and fire lanes.

Subsection (8) fixes how a car sits at the curb. On a two-way roadway the vehicle parks parallel, facing the direction of authorized traffic movement, with its right-hand wheels within 12 inches of the right-hand curb. On a one-way roadway the right-hand wheels or the left-hand wheels can be the ones within 12 inches of their curb. Angle parking is lawful only where the department has signed or marked it, and the driver must match the angle shown.

Time and hours limits follow the signs. Under subsection (4), no one can stay longer than a sign allows or park outside the hours it names. Under subsection (12), a vehicle cannot sit overnight longer than 30 minutes on a street marked to prohibit all night parking, with an exception for physicians and others on emergency calls. In an alley in a business district, loading and unloading cannot run past twenty minutes. Passenger curb loading zones cap a stop at five minutes, and freight curb loading zones cap it at twenty minutes, except specially marked parcel truck zones at one hour. In residential zoning districts, a truck of one-ton capacity or over cannot park more than one hour unless it is loading or unloading materials.

Subsection (19) also bans using a public street, swale or sidewalk in unincorporated Miami-Dade, except outside the urban development boundary, to display a vehicle for sale, hire or rental, to repair it, to advertise, or to store it as junkage for more than 24 hours.