Tallahassee, FL Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

Section 20-73, "Manner of parking generally," in Article III of the general parking chapter, governs any street the city has not specifically marked. Subsection (a) requires parallel parking within 12 inches of the right curb wherever the street carries no markings showing how to park. Subsection (b) shifts control to the pavement itself once the city has painted parallel or angle spaces: a driver must park inside the marked space and cannot let the vehicle spill over and block a neighboring space. Subsection (c) is the wrong-way rule: no vehicle may park with its left side to the curb, which would put it facing oncoming traffic, unless the street is one-way or is restricted to parking on one side only, where the geometry makes left-side parking unavoidable.

The section traces to Code 1957, Sec. 32-17, carried forward as Code 1984, Sec. S. Sec. 195(1)-(3), which authorizes cities to regulate manner-of-parking and angle parking. A violation of Sec. 20-73 is charged like any other parking infraction under this chapter: the ticketed owner can request a hearing before the city manager or a designee within three days of the summons, and a vehicle that racks up two unpaid citations can be impounded until the fines and towing costs are paid.