Parking in Langley: What the City and the Township Actually Allow

Langley has two sets of parking rules because it has two municipalities, and the sign on your street is what counts. These are the rules each municipality publishes as of late October 2026; where a sign contradicts a summary, obey the sign. Neither page lists fine amounts, so treat any specific dollar figure you hear with suspicion and look at the notice itself.

Side by side

Where people get caught

• The “just for the weekend” RV. In the Township, 48 hours is a yearly allowance, not a per-visit one. A camper that sits outside the house for a Friday, a Saturday and a Sunday has used most of it for the year. The Township’s zoning rule lists boats and their trailers among recreational vehicles.
• Moving the car three spaces. In the City, a posted time limit applies to the block. Moving does not give you a fresh two hours.
• The corner you didn’t measure. The distances are not on the sign. In the City you must stay 6 m from an intersection and 2 m from a driveway; in the Township you must not park in front of a driveway or within 1 m of it, nor within 5 m of a community mailbox. Hydrants are 5 m in both.
• The “For Sale” sign. The City says selling goods from City property, including vehicles, is prohibited and cars with For Sale signs will be ticketed. It also requires valid insurance, shown by a plate or permit, to park on City roads. Storage insurance covers only private property.
• Sleeping in the vehicle. Neither municipality lets you use a vehicle or trailer as living quarters on a street.
• The boulevard. The grass or gravel strip beside the road looks like a handy spot. Neither municipality allows parking on it.
• Forgetting that signs apply on holidays. The Township says restricted-parking signs apply year-round, including statutory holidays, unless the sign says otherwise. A no-parking zone does not end at a driveway or lane: it ends at an intersection or where a one-way arrow appears.
• Two-hour streets near the hospital. Some Murrayville streets close to Langley Memorial Hospital have two-hour limits. Visitors parking there for a long appointment need to watch the limit.

Parking pressure and what the City is changing

The City describes most on-street parking as currently unregulated, with 72 hours the only general limit. Its parking-management work, which began in summer 2024, drew more than 240 survey responses in February 2025 and found demand pressure near Brydon Park and Michaud Crescent. A second survey on the draft ran in October 2025. The draft strategy for downtown proposes:

• changing most 3-hour parking to 2-hour to speed turnover;
• adding 4-hour options;
• expanding monthly permit parking for visitors, businesses and employees;
• adding loading zones; and
• exploring pay parking, which the City says would aim at accountability for time limits, not revenue, with any income going back to downtown.

On October 30, 2026 the City’s site still showed the strategy as a draft, and a later study would look at residential streets outside downtown. None of this is a rule you can be ticketed under until the City says it is adopted. See the City’s parking strategy page for updates, and note the City does not take requests to paint curbs yellow. We could not find a comparable current Township study of townhouse-street parking.

Parking and your home

Strata. Street rules do not cover a strata’s private roads and visitor stalls. Before you rent or buy a townhouse or condo, get the stall allocation, visitor rules and any requirement that garages stay free for cars, from the strata bylaws and the Form B. Measure the stall against your vehicle, because a garage that is too small to use is not parking. Our home-buying guide lists the other documents to request, and renters can ask the strata for its rules before signing.

Disability parking. Only vehicles with a valid disability placard may use accessible stalls in the City. Placards come from SPARC BC.

Commuter lots. The Carvolth park and ride at 20255 86 Avenue costs $2 a day or $40 a month and does not allow overnight parking; getting around has the details.

Festival days. Parking near large events is limited; the Fort Langley Cranberry Festival is one example. Plan to walk or carpool, and see the road closures page for what is closed.

If you get a notice

Neither municipality lists fine amounts on its parking page. The City says tickets can be paid online. The Township’s page links to online pages to pay a bylaw notice and to dispute one, so start there rather than at a counter. If you think a sign was missing or unclear, photograph the street and the sign before you dispute it. The City adds that its Highway and Traffic Regulation Bylaw and the provincial Motor Vehicle Act take precedence over its web summary.

How to report a problem or ask for a change

• City. Online Request for Service or 604-514-2800. Say where, when and what vehicle. Enforcement is with the City’s bylaw team. To ask for a different regulation on your block, you can file a request online with your name, contact details and the request.
• Township. The online Report a Problem form or 604-534-3211. See also report a problem on this site.
• A hazard. A car blocking a hydrant during a fire, or an emergency vehicle’s path, is a call to 911, not a bylaw complaint.

Planning to bring an RV or boat? Our camping and RV page covers where to stay, and our newcomer checklist has the other early-days tasks. Property-by-property restrictions for suites and coach houses are in buying a home.