RV parking rules in Totowa

Totowa RV parking at a glance

Do motorhomes, campers, boats and utility trailers count?

Chapter 402 defines RVs broadly: boats and their trailers, snowmobiles, wave runners, ATVs, campers, motorhomes and travel trailers are included. Its separate trailer definition includes utility and construction trailers. A supporting trailer is included in the one-vehicle count; a boat and its support should not automatically be counted as two independent units. Confirm the actual equipment classification.

Can the front driveway be used for ordinary storage?

The ordinary exception is the side or rear yard of the vehicle owner’s residential property. It requires at least four feet from the boundary of an abutting residential lot. A front driveway, another person’s spare lot or a merely nearby property is not this ordinary route. A garage changes the screening condition; it does not remove every ownership, location or applicable building requirement.

What screen does an outside RV need?

An RV outside an enclosed garage must be screened from view. The screen must be at least six feet high using the listed or Zoning Officer-approved materials. Above six feet, only shrubbery is specified. Planting must provide an immediate, year-round screen; a fence’s least objectionable side faces the adjoining property or street. The screened width is limited to the unit’s width plus five feet, with absolute limits of 16 feet wide and 40 feet long.

How many units and what condition are allowed?

Only one vehicle, inclusive of its supporting trailer, may be parked or stored at a time. Current licensing/registration and the condition rules remain separate: visible external disrepair, partial construction and junk vehicles do not fit the examined route. A good screen does not cure an extra unit or a disrepair problem.

Can guests sleep, eat or rest inside?

No parked or stored RV under Chapter 402 may be occupied or used for human habitation, including sleeping, eating, resting or conducting business. This is broader wording than an ongoing-residence ban. A short visit, a nonpaying guest or a legally stored unit does not establish an exception.

Can it have fixed hookups or major repair work?

Fixed electricity, water, gas and sanitary sewer connections are prohibited. Major overhaul or bodywork on an RV parked on residential premises is also prohibited. The section does not establish a general temporary-hookup or minor-repair permission; ask about the exact activity instead of assuming those uses follow from storage.

Are construction trailers treated differently?

A separate § 402-3 route addresses trailers on the lot where construction is progressing, at least 25 feet from an abutting residential lot boundary. They are field offices or storage, never dwellings. That site-work provision is not a trip-loading, visitor-sleeping or ordinary home-storage exception.

Does the home-storage rule allow parking at the curb?

Chapter 402’s owner-residence side/rear route does not establish a public-street allowance. Ask the Borough about the actual block, full vehicle and activity before moving an RV from its lawful storage space to the curb. A construction trailer’s same-site exception does not answer an ordinary road stop.

Who to contact for your setup

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 Totowa 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

• Totowa Chapter 402 — RV definitions, storage and prohibited uses

  Complete operative chapter read October 21, 2026. History: Ordinance 27-2005, November 29, 2005. Chapter 402 has its own definitions and separate construction route.

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 borough determination may still be required. Read our research method.