Planning and Zoning Commission backs Ordinance 44-25 to consolidate parking rules, extend citywide commercial-vehicle ban

The Planning and Zoning Commission of Cape Coral City on Sept. 4, 2025, recommended approval of Ordinance No. 44-25, a measure to consolidate the city’s parking regulations into a single section and to prohibit commercial vehicles and trailers on all rights of way. The commission approved the motion 5 to 2.

City Attorney John Di Clerio told commissioners the ordinance moves scattered parking rules out of several chapters of the Land Development Code into the Code of Ordinances “for ease of reference and for both sides,” and that “none of the regulations in the Land Development Code are being changed at all.” He said a small number of sections that currently sit in the Land Development Code—provisions addressing RV parking and boats in residential yards—are being moved without substantive change.

Di Clerio identified one substantive policy change: the city’s current street-by-street list that designates where commercial vehicles and trailers are prohibited would be repealed and replaced with a blanket prohibition citywide on rights of way. “Commercial vehicles and trailers will be prohibited on all rights of way,” Di Clerio said, noting the change is not within the Land Development…