Parking Rules in Delaware (2026)

Wilmington prohibits parking oversized RVs, trailers, and boats of any size on any city street without a street storage…

Kent County allows recreational vehicles on residential property but forbids using one as a permanent home under Zoning…

New Castle County requires RVs, boats, and trailers parked in residential yards to sit on a hardened surface, restricts…

Every parking area, loading area and driveway in Kent County must be graded and drained to shed surface water and…

New Castle County requires every parked or stored vehicle, RV, or off-highway vehicle in a residential zoning district…

Sussex County discourages parking within the front-yard setback and subjects it to site plan review under Zoning Code §…

Wilmington bans parking any commercial or recreational vehicle over 11,000 pounds or 20 feet long, plus boats of any…

Kent County Code § 171-2(C) bars parking a commercial vehicle on a public right-of-way or on a residential lot, with…

New Castle County bans parking any vehicle over 240 inches long, 84 inches wide or tall, or 8,000 pounds in residential…

Sussex County's HR-1 and HR-2 High-Density Residential Districts cap accessory commercial-vehicle parking at one truck…

Sussex County bans on-street parking near fire hydrants, intersections, crosswalks and driveways in county-regulated…

Wilmington requires vehicles parked on any street to sit parallel to the curb, headed in the direction of traffic, with…

Wilmington has no citywide overnight parking ban, but in the Hilltop (Area N) residential permit zone, non-residents…

Delaware Code Title 22, Section 119 requires every municipality with population over 30,000 to adopt a permitting…

Wilmington requires a city permit before installing any electric vehicle charging station or curbside charging cord in…

New Castle County requires new off-street parking areas, including apartment and multi-family lots, to include…

Kent County Code § 171-2(G) doesn't require EV charging stations, but it directs that any charging spaces built be…

Delaware Code Title 21, Chapter 44 sets statewide procedures for declaring, posting, towing, and disposing of abandoned…

Kent County Zoning Code § 205-27 bars storing, parking or abandoning inoperable, wrecked or unregistered motor vehicles…

New Castle County code enforcement and police can order an inoperable, unregistered, or abandoned vehicle towed off…

Sussex County allows no more than two inoperable, dismantled or unregistered vehicles or boats on residential property…

Wilmington treats inoperable, wrecked, or unregistered vehicles left on streets or private property as abandoned…

Wilmington's Department of Public Works marks 'No Stopping' zones on city streets, and stopping, standing, parking, or…

Kent County Code § 171-4(B) requires every off-street loading space to be sized and placed to fit the proposed land…

New Castle County bars noisy loading, unloading, or container handling in residential districts between 10 p.m. and 7…

Sussex County requires commercial buildings to provide dedicated off-street loading berths sized by floor area, from…

Wilmington caps commercial loading and unloading in posted no-parking areas at one hour, letting marked delivery…

Wilmington divides much of the city into lettered special residential parking districts (A through Z) where a free…

Delaware regulates private-property towing in Title 21, Chapter 69A, and the numbers are hard ones. For a noncommercial…

Wilmington sets no dollar cap on tow rates in its own code. Instead, Chapter 37, Article III routes every…