Tuscaloosa, AL Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

City Code Sec. 22-78 lists sixteen specific places where stopping, standing, or parking is unlawful unless necessary to avoid a traffic conflict or under police direction. The most commonly enforced are blocking a public or private driveway, parking on a sidewalk or crosswalk, and parking within 15 feet of an intersection or a fire hydrant. The list also bars parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk at a signal-controlled intersection, within 30 feet of a flashing beacon or stop sign, within 50 feet of a railroad crossing, within 20 feet of a fire station driveway (and 75 feet on the opposite side), on a bridge or in a tunnel, on a median, or wherever the curb is painted yellow or official signs prohibit it.

Sec. 22-79 adds a general obstruction rule: parking on a street may not leave less than 15 feet of roadway width available, and parking within 100 feet of the crest of a hill on a roadway 40 feet wide or less requires the director of transportation's consent. Both sections trace to the original 1991 traffic ordinance (Ord. No. 3327) and sit in Chapter 22, Article IV, Stopping, Standing and Parking Generally, alongside the parallel-parking rule (Sec. 22-75) requiring vehicles to park within 18 inches of the curb.