RV parking rules in Cherry Hill Township

Cherry Hill Township RV parking at a glance

Can the RV sit in the front driveway?

Section 40-431E places the listed RVs, trailers, motorhomes, off-road vehicles and boats in side or rear yards. They must be behind the front wall of the dwelling or the zone’s applicable front-yard setback, whichever is farther from the street right-of-way. Paving a front area does not remove that placement test.

What changes on a corner property?

Both the primary and secondary front yards must meet the front-wall/setback restriction. A spot that looks like an ordinary side yard can still fall within the second front. Confirm both street rights-of-way and legal front lines before measuring; do not assume a fence or driveway orientation settles the issue.

What surface and distances are required?

If not garaged, the unit must be on paved, graveled or similar hard surface. The stated minimums are three feet from the side property line and ten feet from the rear property line. Exactly those numbers meet only their respective numerical conditions. The lawful yard, complete vehicle footprint, corner fronts and other parcel rules still apply.

Can it use an apartment parking lot or have commercial plates?

The section excludes RVs from common areas or parking lots of multi-residential communities. It also excludes recreational vehicles that are required by law to bear a commercial license plate from residential zones. The question is the legal plate requirement and actual equipment/use, not merely what a plate looks like. Nonresidential storage has its own approved-site-plan language and an Institutional-zone distinction.

Can someone live in it or hook it to services?

Occupation for residential purposes is prohibited, and the section says these uses may not be hooked to utility services. Ongoing living and connections therefore do not follow from a storage result. The exact wording is not an independently verified ban or permission for every transient guest-sleeping scenario; obtain those separate current provisions.

Do stored or inoperable vehicles have further requirements?

Subsection F and the referenced Property Maintenance section separately address vehicle storage and condition, including vehicles left dismantled, inoperable, uninspected, uninsured, unlicensed or unregistered. Do not transfer that subsection’s clocks or permits into a general RV parking allowance. Public-street stays, repairs, loading and a new pad also require their own rules.

Who to contact for your setup

For the legal front lines, corner-lot setback or storage surface, contact Cherry Hill Township’s zoning staff at 856-488-7870. Provide the address, RV class and dimensions, both street frontages where relevant, and a marked survey or placement sketch. An inquiry does not make a front driveway eligible or authorize residential occupation, utility connections or street parking.

Ask the governing municipality about your exact address, legal yard boundaries, complete vehicle, activity and any issued approvals. Use the linked operative provisions and retain a written answer for unresolved scope.

Use the Cherry Hill Township parking checker to organize the starting conditions. The checker cannot approve a parcel, a variance or an unverified exception.

Official sources reviewed October 21, 2026

• Cherry Hill § 40-431E — recreational vehicles in residential zones

  Complete operative E(1)–(7) and relevant adjacent context read October 21, 2026. The later zoning-law notice remains a review limit; incorporation of those changes into the code was not confirmed. Residential occupation and utility language are kept distinct from unverified transient sleeping.

A review date records when we checked these sources. The notes above explain any use of older code editions or limits on access to the full source; an address-specific township determination may still be required. Read our research method.