Corona, CA Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Corona Code of Ordinances Sec. 060, titled "Obstructing passage," states its purpose is to keep public streets, sidewalks and other areas readily accessible and to stop willful, intentional obstruction that interferes with others' right to use them. Two separate prohibitions apply. Subsection (B) bars a person, after first being warned by a law enforcement officer, from loitering or standing in or upon a public highway, street, alley, sidewalk, crosswalk, bridge, plaza, park, driveway, parking lot or building open to the public (including places that serve food or drink, offer entertainment, or sell goods), or in the doorways and entrances to such buildings, in a manner that unreasonably obstructs, blocks or interferes with normal use of the entrance to a business, public building, house of worship, theater or other place of public assemblage.

Subsection (C), "Obstructing pedestrian passage," separately bars a warned person from loitering, standing, sitting, lying, kneeling or sleeping on those same public ways in a manner that unreasonably obstructs or interferes with the free passage of any pedestrian. Subsection (E) adds a vehicle-traffic obstruction rule barring a warned person from willfully, intentionally or maliciously obstructing or hindering a motor vehicle, its operator, or a passenger while the vehicle is moving, lawfully stopped, or entering or exiting private or public property. The ordinance carves out specific exceptions in subsection (D): people standing in line to conduct business, people distributing political or religious literature, anyone conducting a lawful business or with a lawful reason for being on the street or sidewalk (so long as they otherwise comply with applicable law), people sitting on the curb to view a lawfully permitted parade, and people using benches or seating the city has provided or permitted.

A prior warning from a law enforcement officer is a built-in element of subsections (B), (C) and (E): the conduct is not a violation until an officer has warned the person and the obstruction continues.