An unworkable situation for a significant number of Surrey homeowners across all residential zones: Most residential driveways, including those on larger Surrey lots/properties, are not long enough to accommodate a motorhome, travel trailer, or boat trailer while maintaining a full one-metre setback from the front property line. The current bylaw technically denotes most recreational units, including camper vans, as "non-conforming".

Units parked in good faith on residential driveways will frequently overhang into "the boulevard", placing homeowners in technical violation even when no obstruction to pedestrian or vehicular traffic exists. Residents with supportive or indifferent neighbours park their recreational units, often technically in breach, without consequence, year after year whereas residents targeted by a single disgruntled neighbour face enforcement action, potential fines, and forced removal of their unit, for an idea.

Surrey Parking ByLaw Reform introduces two complementary reforms to address the current gaps in recreational unit (RU) parking and storage regulation:    

• Front driveway and boulevard parking permitted for all recreational units with minimum 1.6m clearance from sidewalk interior edge or pavement edge.

• Hard-surfaced driveway/parking pad required; valid insurance required; no sight-line obstruction
  
  

• An Off-site rural storage permit framework allowing farm and acreage property owners to legally host recreational unit storage for those units unable to meet clearance criteria. Providing regulated, accessible, and revenue-generating alternative to the current unregulated and enforcement-vulnerable informal storage market.