RV parking rules in Pendleton Town

Pendleton Town RV parking at a glance

Seven-day storage threshold and resident ownership

Section 247-36 defines storage as the presence of a covered trailer, mobile home, recreational vehicle or boat on a lot for seven days or longer. Every stored item must belong to a person residing on that lot. This RV screen therefore requires an existing residence and confirmed ownership by its resident. A visitor’s RV is not treated as the resident’s unit merely because the owner has permission to park.

A stay shorter than seven days falls outside this section’s storage definition, but that is not an exemption from other parking, zoning or habitation rules. The checker leaves that route unresolved rather than approving it.

Front-yard restriction and setbacks

Section 247-36 requires the same front setback as the residence and at least ten feet from side and rear property lines. Separately, section 247-29(D) prohibits using the front yard for storage. Satisfying a front-setback distance alone therefore does not approve front-yard RV storage.

The Town must confirm the applicable residential front setback, legal yard boundaries and other parcel restrictions. Corner and through lots are excluded from this ordinary screen because their additional street-facing yard treatment cannot be inferred from a driveway’s location. Measure the RV’s nearest point to the legally established property lines.

Keep stored RVs movable and without permanent utilities

Section 247-36(C) prohibits permanent utility service to a stored item, permanent wheel removal and permanent attachment to the ground. These are separate conditions. An RV that meets the yard distances can still fail the storage rule because of its physical or utility arrangement.

The screen covers unoccupied storage without utility proposals. It does not approve temporary hookups, wastewater disposal, installation work or conversion to a dwelling. Any proposed habitation must be checked under the separate permit rule.

Habitation permits and detached trailers in public places

Section 247-45(A) requires a Town Board special use permit before using an RV, camper-trailer or mobile home as habitation. It also addresses establishing or operating parks and camps. Having an application or claiming a permit does not establish that the specific stay complies with all approval conditions; those cases remain for Town review.

Section 247-45(B) prohibits detaching a covered RV or trailer from its towing vehicle and leaving it standing in a public street or place. Remaining attached does not itself create a street-parking right. The park/camp stay limit in subsection C is a different provision and is not applied as a private residential storage allowance.

Who to contact for your setup

Ask the municipal code-enforcement or planning office to confirm the actual boundary, vehicle classification, parcel restrictions and any approval before relying on this limited screen.

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

Official sources reviewed November 7, 2026

• Article VI, sections 247-29, 247-36 and 247-45

  Full relevant storage, front-yard, habitation-permit and detached-trailer clauses captured before a later failed source action.

• Current Town of Pendleton code

  Index reports legislation through March 9, 2026.

• Published new-law list

  Retrieved older list reconciled with current index; do not treat its cached count as a current no-law finding.

• Local Law 1-2026

  Adopted March 9, 2026; battery energy storage amendment to Article IX, not the screened Article VI RV clauses.

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 local-government determination may still be required. Read our research method.