Parking Rules in Georgia (2026)

A camper trailer, motor home, boat or boat trailer cannot sit on a Macon-Bibb County residential street or public place…

Unincorporated Whitfield County lets homeowners park a camper or recreational vehicle on their property, but Section…

Acworth requires trailers, boats and RVs on residential lots to sit to the side or rear of the house on a hard surface…

Atlanta lets homeowners keep an RV, trailer, or boat on residential property, but it must sit behind the front building…

In unincorporated Bartow County, recreational vehicles, boats, campers and jet skis parked on a residential lot must…

In the City of Savannah, boats, RVs and trailers must be kept on an established driveway or enclosed in a legal…

Cherokee County caps front-yard parking in residential districts to two recreational vehicles or school buses, or one…

Clayton County lets residents keep one unoccupied, currently-tagged travel trailer, motor coach, or pleasure boat for…

In most single-family districts, Cobb County caps rear- and side-yard parking to one vehicle, one boat, and one RV…

Columbia County bars parking a boat, camper trailer, motor home, trailer or wrecker on any public right-of-way except…

Columbus, Georgia caps a stored recreational vehicle, boat, or trailer at 32 feet in a residential zoning district and…

Coweta County allows RVs, campers and boats to be stored on a residential lot but forbids anyone from living, sleeping…

Decatur's UDO lets a residential property keep one RV, trailer or boat under 8 feet wide, 4,500 pounds and 30 feet…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, unlicensed, unregistered, inoperable or junk boats, campers, travel trailers and motor…

Dunwoody caps how long an RV, camper, boat or boat trailer can sit on a residential street. Section 30-120(c) limits…

Unincorporated Fayette County bars parking camping trailers, motorized homes, boat trailers, and boats on any…

In unincorporated Gwinnett County, campers, motor homes, boats and boat trailers can't sit on a residential street or…

Houston County's land development regulations limit trailers and commercial vehicles parked at homes in residential…

Marietta will not let a homeowner park a recreational vehicle or trailer of any type in front of the house in a…

Newton County's definition of 'recreational vehicle' in section 42-23 sweeps in boats, personal watercraft, all-terrain…

Recreational vehicles, boats, boat trailers and utility trailers are exempt from the county's residential…

Roswell restricts where boats, travel trailers and RVs may sit on residential lots: side and rear yards only, never a…

Sandy Springs bars parking or storing any unlicensed vehicle, trailer or equipment, or any vehicle, trailer or…

South Fulton lets residential lots keep up to two business vehicles and two RVs, each capped at 45 feet, or boats up to…

In unincorporated Walton County, Section 7-1-100(C)(3) of the Land Development Ordinance bars parking travel trailers…

Warner Robins allows a travel trailer to be parked or stored on a residential lot, but nobody may occupy it, even…

Augusta-Richmond County bars unlicensed or junk vehicles and trailers, including derelict boats and RVs, from sitting…

Acworth caps how much of a single-family home's required front yard can be paved for parking at 35 percent. Front yards…

Atlanta limits residential driveway width to 20 feet for one- and two-family homes, 24 feet for multi-family, and caps…

Augusta-Richmond County bars curb cuts within 50 feet of a street intersection and, outside single-family residential…

In the City of Savannah, an "established driveway" must have a solid surface such as pavement, pavers, contained gravel…

Cherokee County bars parking recreational vehicles or school buses in a residential front yard unless the vehicle sits…

In Clayton County's unincorporated area, an RV, motor coach or boat parked in a front yard must sit on the paved…

Cobb County bans parking on unhardened ground countywide, and front-yard parking in residential districts must sit on a…

Columbia County requires every off-street parking space, including a driveway or lot serving a permitted use, to be…

Columbus, Georgia bans parking vehicles in front, side, or rear setbacks outside driveways or other approved surfaces…

Coweta County's zoning ordinance bars commercial and industrial vehicles or equipment from sitting in the front yard of…

In the City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, property owners need a city permit before building a driveway onto a…

Unincorporated DeKalb bars parking a trailer or RV in front of the house, and keeps them 10 feet off the side and rear…

Before cutting a curb or laying a driveway onto a county road in unincorporated Floyd County, you need a written permit…

Unincorporated Fulton County requires parking spaces to sit on an all-weather surface, not grass or dirt. Front-yard…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County bans parking on unpaved ground in residential districts, requiring a hard-surfaced…

Building or altering a driveway or curb cut on or abutting a county road right-of-way requires a permit from the…

In Johns Creek's single-family and AG-1 districts, at most 35% of the front yard can be paved or covered in an…

Marietta bans parking any vehicle, including trailers and boats, on anything but a treated, hardened surface built to…

In any residential zoning district in unincorporated Rockdale County, Sec. 222-11(b) requires vehicles to be parked…

Roswell requires all residential driveway parking on a hard-surfaced pad, asphalt, concrete, gravel, or pavers, never…

Sandy Springs bars gravel, pebble or stone driveways, yards and lots built so that vehicles throw loose stone onto the…

South Fulton limits where residents can park vehicles, RVs, and boats around a home and requires paved surfaces for…

Cherokee County outlaws parking any commercial, industrial or heavy vehicle or equipment on residentially zoned…

In Dunwoody's residential districts, only licensed motorcycles and passenger vehicles not used as a common or contract…

In unincorporated Whitfield County, no commercial vehicle licensed with a gross vehicle weight over 11,000 pounds or…

Atlanta bars commercial vehicles from residential lots except one rated three-fourths ton or less, which must be kept…

Clayton County bans parking most commercial vehicles, buses, and heavy trailers in residential zoning districts…

Unincorporated Cobb County bars any truck or freight vehicle over 12,500 pounds gross weight from parking or standing…

DeKalb County caps how long heavy vehicles and recreational vehicles can sit on a public street in the unincorporated…

Forsyth County limits home-parked big rigs to agricultural-zoned properties only. UDC § 17-6.4 allows one commercial…

Henry County bans parking dump trucks, tow trucks, tractor-trailers, tankers and other heavy commercial vehicles in…

Trucks and tractor-trailers over 30 feet with more than six wheels cannot enter, travel, or park on residential…

Buses, trucks or other freight vehicles over one ton (or 10,000 pounds in the former unincorporated county) cannot sit…

Newton County bars parking any commercial, industrial, or heavy vehicle or equipment on residentially zoned property in…

Paulding County bans parking commercial vehicles on any county road at any time, including overnight, under Code of…

In unincorporated Rockdale County, parking or standing a commercial vehicle in a residential zoning district is…

South Fulton bars parking any commercial vehicle, trailer or truck over 26,000 pounds on residential streets or…

In unincorporated Walton County, Section 7-1-100(C) of the Land Development Ordinance bans parking wreckers, tow…

Warner Robins caps residential lots at one commercial vehicle each and bans tractor-trailers and vehicles hauling…

Acworth splits commercial-vehicle parking rules on residential property by axle weight. Vehicles under 8,000 pounds…

Augusta-Richmond County limits how long heavy trucks can sit on residential streets. Any truck, truck tractor, or other…

Unincorporated Bartow County caps commercial vehicles, including trailers separated from a tractor, at two per…

Unincorporated Carroll County limits vehicles kept in connection with a licensed home occupation to those 'used…

Chatham County makes it unlawful to park a commercial or oversized vehicle, trailer, motor home, semitrailer or truck…

Columbus, Georgia's zoning code bars parking any vehicle in a residential front, side, or rear setback outside a…

Decatur, Georgia bars trucks or other commercial or freight-carrying vehicles over three-quarter ton capacity (8,700…

Residential lots in unincorporated Fayette County cannot host a business vehicle over 8,000 pounds except during…

A household in unincorporated Floyd County can keep only one commercial vehicle parked outdoors on a residential lot…

RVs, boats, trailers and campers may park in unincorporated Fulton County's residential yards only if kept out of the…

In unincorporated Gwinnett County, buses, trucks and other vehicles over one-half ton capacity can't sit on a public…

A Hall County residential business may park just one commercial vehicle on-site, limited to a passenger car, van, or…

Johns Creek allows RVs, campers, buses, trailers, mobile home coaches and boats to be parked in residential zoning…

Marietta can post any street as off-limits to commercial vehicles under Section 9-4-040(E), and a truck may only enter…

Roswell, Georgia bars parking a bus, truck, or other vehicle over eight tons on any street for more than six hours, and…

Sandy Springs bans parking commercial vehicles and trailers on residential street rights-of-way except for active…

Bartow County Code § 70-3 bans leaving any motor vehicle, trailer or other vehicle unattended on the right-of-way of a…

Acworth fines $25 for parking in violation of a posted time limit or "No Parking" sign, doubling to $50 if unpaid…

Atlanta bars parking within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, in front of driveways, within intersections and crosswalks, and…

Augusta-Richmond County bans parking in front of driveways, within 20 feet of crosswalks, within 15 feet of hydrants…

In unincorporated Chatham County, no vehicle over 22 feet long or 10,000 pounds, and no trailer, motor home…

Cherokee County bans parking on any signed no-parking street and lists 15 named roads that are entirely off-limits to…

Passenger cars may generally park on residential streets, but Clayton County cities prohibit heavy and commercial…

Coweta County bans parking on 40-plus specific unincorporated road segments under Sec. 74-56 and makes it unlawful…

Decatur, Georgia bars parking between a home's front building line and front property line except on a paved driveway…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, Code § 17-137 bars parking any vehicle on a street in a way that leaves less than ten…

Dunwoody's traffic code bars parking that blocks the free movement of traffic on a street. Under section 30-108, a…

Gwinnett County requires that any vehicle parked on a public street leave at least ten feet of roadway width open for…

Along any public road right-of-way the board of commissioners has designated as a no-parking area, Hall County Code §…

Macon-Bibb County bars parking within 10 feet of a fire hydrant, 20 feet of an intersection, on sidewalks, or in a way…

Marietta bars parking on sidewalks, in no-parking zones, on yellow or red curbs, or against posted signs under Section…

Paulding County's only stand-alone on-street parking ordinance bans parking in deceleration or acceleration lanes…

In unincorporated Rockdale County, Code § 94-5 lets a sheriff's deputy order a vehicle moved, or towed to impound…

In Roswell, Georgia, the police chief sets on-street parking limits and prohibitions street by street, marked by posted…

South Fulton bans parking in intersections, crosswalks, within 20 feet of an intersection, in front of driveways…

Where Warner Robins has painted public parking spaces along the street, drivers get two hours in the space, not the…

In unincorporated Walton County, Section 7-1-100(D) of the Land Development Ordinance makes it unlawful to stop, stand…

Carroll County bans parking on any county road or county-maintained property overnight, or for any period at all, under…

No truck or tractor-trailer may park overnight on a residential subdivision street or on any county right-of-way in…

Commercial vehicles, buses and recreational vehicles cannot sit overnight on the street in any residential district of…

Acworth bans parking any motor vehicle, motorcycle or motor scooter overnight in a designated fire lane on privately…

Chatham County will not let a motor home, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor, or any vehicle over 22 feet or 10,000…

Clayton County bars parking on narrow two-lane rights-of-way in the unincorporated county during weekday rush hours…

In Cobb County business districts, on-street parking is capped at two hours between 1:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., with…

Unincorporated DeKalb County bans parking 6 p.m. to 8 a.m. on dozens of specific streets under Code § 17-362, each…

Unincorporated Fulton County bars parking any vehicle rated above 6,000 pounds on a residential street's right-of-way…

In unincorporated Gwinnett County, a bus, truck or other vehicle over half a ton cannot sit parked on a public street…

Henry County only lets commercial vehicles park or store overnight in industrial zoning districts, and only when that…

No vehicle may sit on a Macon-Bibb County street for more than 72 consecutive hours; the county impounds vehicles left…

Paulding County caps how long a passenger car, motorcycle, or motor-driven cycle can sit on a county road at seven…

Unincorporated Rockdale County bans parking in shopping center parking lots between 7:30 p.m. and 4:00 a.m. under Code…

Where the police chief has a no-parking sign posted, South Fulton bans street parking between midnight and 6:00 a.m. It…

Warner Robins bars any vehicle from sitting on a public street for longer than 12 straight hours. City Code Sec. 14-31…

Atlanta's parking code sets no citywide overnight ban. Sec. 150-89 only bars parking 7:00-9:00 a.m. and 4:00-7:00 p.m…

Dunwoody does not set a single citywide overnight parking ban; instead, section 30-123 lets the city prohibit parking…

Acworth bars anyone from parking in a space marked for electric vehicle charging unless a rechargeable vehicle is…

New multi-family, mixed-use, and parking-garage construction in Atlanta must wire at least 20% of required parking…

In the Mountain View Overlay District near Hartsfield-Jackson, Clayton County requires at least one EV charging station…

Cobb County requires four-or-fewer EV charging stations on multifamily or nonresidential property to sit at least 20…

Unincorporated DeKalb County allows electric vehicle charging stations as accessory structures in any yard, capped at…

Commercial developments of 10,000 square feet or more inside the South Forsyth Commercial Design Standards study area…

Commercial and multifamily developments with more than 50 parking spaces in unincorporated Gwinnett County must install…

In the Johns Creek Town Center Overlay, developments with 50 or more required parking spaces must install one electric…

Paulding County's Unified Development Ordinance treats electric vehicle charging stations as an accessory use governed…

Unincorporated Rockdale County regulates electric vehicle charging stations under the Unified Development Ordinance's…

South Fulton requires dedicated electric vehicle parking spaces at new commercial, mixed-use, multi-family and…

Columbus, Georgia lets property owners count EV charging spaces toward required parking and reserves public charging…

Hall County's off-street parking rules let a site count EV-charging-equipped spaces at a discount: each EV space…

Private, restricted-access EV chargers are allowed as an accessory use in every Dunwoody zoning district by right, and…

Cobb County Code Section 134-277 bans junk, wrecked, dismantled, inoperative, abandoned or unregistered vehicles…

Acworth Code §§ 52-36 through 52-40 ban parking, storing or junking a 'disabled vehicle,' meaning one dismantled or…

Atlanta bans junked motor vehicles, wrecked, dismantled, abandoned, or inoperative, parked on any lot or premises…

Unincorporated Bartow County bans an unlicensed vehicle, boat or trailer on any property unless it sits in a fully…

Cherokee County bans keeping a junk vehicle anywhere it is visible from a road or neighboring property in the…

Columbus, Georgia bans keeping a junked or abandoned motor vehicle on any lot and orders removal after notice, with the…

Leaving an abandoned or junked vehicle, along with rubbish, refuse, or unsightly material, on any real property in…

Forsyth County bans junk vehicles from sitting in public view on any property in the unincorporated county under UDC §…

Gwinnett County bans keeping, parking, storing or maintaining a junk vehicle on any premises or public right-of-way…

Unincorporated Newton County bans abandoning any motor vehicle under state law, and its own code adds two…

Paulding County bans keeping any junk vehicle on public or private property in the unincorporated county under Code of…

South Fulton bans storing unlicensed vehicles or trailers on residential property or right-of-way, and bars any…

Augusta-Richmond County bans parking inoperative, junk, wrecked, or unlicensed vehicles on residential or other zoned…

Unincorporated Carroll County caps inoperative or unlicensed motor vehicles at two per premises and bans vehicles left…

In unincorporated Chatham County, an untagged vehicle on private property is an "abandoned motor vehicle" requiring a…

Under Georgia's abandoned-vehicle law, a car left unattended on public property for at least five days, or left on…

Decatur, Georgia's health and sanitation code makes it unlawful to store an abandoned, inoperable motor vehicle in the…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, an inoperable vehicle can sit on private property for at most 72 hours unless it is…

Dunwoody bars leaving a commercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer parked or abandoned on a street or…

Floyd County Code § 2-11-21 bans leaving a junked vehicle on private property in unincorporated Floyd County for more…

Unincorporated Fulton County bans keeping unlicensed vehicles, or any vehicle left inoperable over 30 days, on…

Hall County tows vehicles left unattended on county-owned property in violation of its parking rules, moving them to…

Henry County makes it a public nuisance to keep a wrecked, dismantled, inoperative or discarded motor vehicle on any…

Houston County bans keeping any inoperative or untagged motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer in open view on private…

Johns Creek bans storing unlicensed vehicles or trailers, or vehicles left inoperable for more than 30 days, on…

Macon-Bibb County makes it unlawful to abandon a vehicle anywhere in the county or to leave a wrecked, dismantled, or…

Marietta lets police tow a vehicle from a public street after 72 consecutive hours, and Section 9-12-060 bars leaving…

In unincorporated Rockdale County, a motor vehicle left unattended on a public street for at least five days, or on…

Roswell, Georgia treats a wrecked or inoperable vehicle on any property, and a vehicle left on a street over twelve…

Sandy Springs makes it unlawful to park or abandon a commercial motor vehicle, recreational vehicle or trailer on a…

Unincorporated Walton County bans keeping an abandoned junk vehicle on any property or adjacent right-of-way for more…

Storing an inoperable, uninspected or untagged car, scrap car parts, or an old household appliance on a residential lot…

Whitfield County's Unified Zoning Ordinance bars any junk vehicle, defined as an inoperative, wrecked, or unregistered…

Columbus, Georgia bans anyone but the city from painting or marking curbs, parking lines, or time-limit signs on public…

Atlanta's fire chief can order curbs next to designated fire lanes painted red or another distinctive color, and…

In unincorporated Clayton County, the fire chief or a designee decides which curbs get painted red under Sec. 42-5(d)…

In unincorporated Cobb County, the county's traffic engineer, the director of the Department of Transportation, is the…

Forsyth County marks fire lanes with signs and painted curbing, and parking or leaving an unattended vehicle in one is…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County requires an 80-foot no-parking zone at every bus stop, with the curb painted yellow in…

DeKalb County Code § 17-148 reserves an 80-foot no-parking zone at bus stops in unincorporated DeKalb County. Every…

Acworth designates specific downtown spaces on Dallas Street and Center Street as "delivery parking only," limited to…

Atlanta restricts curb loading zones to active loading and unloading during posted hours, with separate rules for…

Augusta-Richmond County's zoning ordinance requires commercial and industrial buildings to provide off-street loading…

In unincorporated Bartow County, every building used for business, trade, or industry must provide off-street loading…

Chatham County has no separate designated-loading-zone ordinance, but Sec. 12-302 lets commercial and oversized…

Any Cherokee County building that expands its floor area by 25 percent or more must add off-street loading space under…

In Clayton County's commercial and office-institutional zoning districts, a commercial vehicle can only park if it is…

Cobb County restricts freight curb loading zones to actual loading and unloading of materials; a passenger vehicle may…

Columbus, Georgia caps off-street loading facility hours within 50 feet of a residential zoning district to 7 a.m.-11…

Coweta County requires every new commercial or industrial development to build off-street loading spaces to fixed…

The City of Decatur, Georgia's Unified Development Ordinance requires most nonresidential development to provide…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, trucks may stop in a marked freight curb loading zone only to load or unload materials…

Dunwoody lets the public works department designate passenger and freight curb loading zones and post the hours they…

Unincorporated Fayette County requires industrial, wholesale, and retail operations to provide off-street loading…

Forsyth County requires manufacturing, warehouse, retail, hotel, hospital, and similar commercial buildings to provide…

Businesses in unincorporated Fulton County must build off-street loading spaces scaled to their gross floor area, each…

Unincorporated Gwinnett requires developments with routine deliveries to build off-street loading docks sized to the…

Every business, trade or industrial building in unincorporated Hall County must provide off-street loading space sized…

In Henry County's office-institutional, commercial and mixed-use districts, a commercial vehicle can only sit in a…

Houston County's Comprehensive Land Development Regulations require off-street loading docks for larger commercial and…

Johns Creek requires off-street loading spaces for larger commercial, retail and industrial buildings, sized at least…

Macon-Bibb County marks freight, passenger, bus and taxicab loading zones with colored curb stripes and signs…

Marietta requires certain commercial and industrial buildings to provide off-street loading berths at least 12 feet by…

Paulding County requires every new manufacturing, warehousing, wholesaling, or retail building to provide its own…

Unincorporated Rockdale County requires any development where goods are routinely delivered or shipped to provide…

Roswell's Unified Development Code bars loading and unloading in public streets, requires rear-of-building placement in…

South Fulton requires off-street loading docks to sit only where off-street parking is otherwise allowed and to buffer…

In unincorporated Walton County, Section 7-2-100 of the Land Development Ordinance requires businesses over 25,000…

Warner Robins requires off-street loading and unloading space sized to fourteen feet high, twelve feet wide and…

Augusta-Richmond County lets residents petition to create residential parking permit zones on public streets…

Atlanta designates 19 named residential permit parking areas where a $20 decal exempts residents from posted time…

Residents in eligible unincorporated DeKalb neighborhoods can petition to create a residential permit parking area…

Georgia caps what private-property tow companies can charge under DPS Rule 570-38-7-.13 and Statewide Maximum Rate…

Atlanta does not print its own dollar ceiling for a nonconsensual tow. Sec. 162-227 caps what a towing or storage firm…