Parking Guidelines

Take Note!

  • This page was last updated on 5/23/2019
  • City of Smithville ordinances in a nutshell:
    • Any vehicles parked on the street need to be licensed and legally registered.
    • Any vehicles parked on the street need to be in driving condition.
      • They can't look abandoned.
      • They can't be sitting with flat tire(s) or appear undriveable.
    • You need to be mindful not to park any vehicle within 30 feet of a stop sign.
    • You need to be mindful not to park any vehicle within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
    • The term "vehicles" also includes trailers.
    • For possible violations, please contact Smithville, MO dispatch at 816-858-3521.
  • The streets are public, but there are some stipulations set forth in the CC&R's we must adhere to.
  • While it's not against the law or called out in the CC&R's, please be courteous to your neighbors and try and keep sidewalks clear, even when parking in your own driveway.
    • It's safer if adults and especially children if thye are able to stay on the sidewalk paths and not have to navigate around a parked vehicle.
  • It's against the CC&R's to habitually park or store what most would consider a "recreational vehicles" within the subdivision.

What the City of Smithville says..

Adopting Ordinance

Traffic Code

Chapter 365 Stopping, Standing or Parking Restricted or Prohibited in Specific Places

Section 355.10

A. Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with law or the directions of a Police Officer or official traffic control device, no person shall:

1. Stop, stand or park a vehicle:

a. On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the edge or curb of a street;

b. On a sidewalk;

c. Within an intersection;

d. On a crosswalk;

e. Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within thirty (30) feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the ends of a safety zone, unless the (traffic authority) indicates a different length by signs or markings;

f. Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction when stopping, standing or parking would obstruct traffic;

g. Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway or within a highway tunnel;

h. On any railroad tracks;

i. At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.

2. Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:

a. In front of a public or private driveway;

b. Within fifteen (15) feet of a fire hydrant;

c. Within twenty (20) feet of a crosswalk at an intersection;

d. Within thirty (30) feet upon the approach to any flashing signal, stop sign or traffic control signal located at the side of a roadway;

e. Within twenty (20) feet of the driveway entrance to any fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station within seventy-five (75) feet of said entrance (when properly signposted);

f. At any place where official signs prohibit standing.

3. Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading merchandise or passengers:

a. Within fifty (50) feet of the nearest rail of a railroad crossing;

b. At any place where official signs prohibit parking.

B. No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his/her control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a distance as is unlawful.

What the CC&R's say...

Article VI - Restrictions

Section 9

  • No truck, school bus, boat or water borne vehicles, trailer, camper, recreational vehicle, machinery, commercial vehicles or other equipment shall be repaired or customarily or habitually parked, kept or stored on the streets or alleys or in the yards or driveways around any of the buildings within the Properties, unless they are parked or stored in and enclosed garage or other enclosure approved by Declarant, except only during periods of approved construction on the lot, nor shall any external television or radio antennae, solar panel, reception dish, or device, or windmill be erected or kept on or about any of the property, buildings or yards of the Properties except as may be approved by the Declarant or its successors after considering proposed location, size, landscaping and screening.