Lauderhill, FL Sidewalk & Pedestrian Rules: Obstruction Rules (2026)

Sec. 20-16(b), part of the 'Paved rights-of-way, crosswalks, driveways, bridges, signals, etc.' section in Article II of Chapter 20, Traffic, makes it unlawful for a person to cause a motor vehicle to park, stand, stop or otherwise obstruct any sidewalk, any crosswalk, or any area within twenty feet of a crosswalk located at an intersection. The provision traces to Ord. No. 378 in 1974 and has been amended six times since, most recently by Ord. No. 22O-11-142 in December 2022, without changing the twenty-foot buffer.

As with the section's driveway-blocking companion at subsection (c), the code builds in a nightly carve-out limited to residential districts: between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., a vehicle may occupy sidewalk or crosswalk-adjacent space that would otherwise be off-limits during the day. Outside that window, or in any non-residential district at any hour, obstructing pedestrian right-of-way with a parked vehicle is a citable Article II violation. The rule sits alongside Sec. 20-15.1's separate, harsher ban on driving a motor vehicle onto a sidewalk or bicycle path at all, so a driver who both drives onto a sidewalk and leaves the vehicle there risks exposure under both sections.

Lauderhill's parking enforcement specialists and police officers, defined at Sec. 20-15.3, write the citations, and the Broward County Clerk of Court's hearing-officer program set up at Sec. 20-13 processes disputes.