Long Beach, CA Environmental Rules: Vehicle Idling Restrictions (2026)

222 lists the conditional-use standards for any site selling diesel fuel in Long Beach, whether paired with gasoline sales or not, enforced as a condition of the site's conditional use permit rather than as a general citywide idling ordinance. ' The no-idling rule sits inside a larger package of siting conditions built for truck-oriented fuel sales: diesel sales may only be sited on designated truck routes (subsection A); an eight-foot solid masonry wall is required where the site abuts or sits across an alley from a residential district (subsection B); a queuing lane at least 120 feet long must be provided on-site for each diesel pump (subsection C); a traffic engineer's circulation and queuing diagram must accompany the application (subsection D); local streets may not be used to access the pumps (subsection E); and overnight parking or on-site maintenance of truck tractors or trailers is separately prohibited (subsection G).

Read together, the no-idling condition targets the exhaust, noise, and air-quality impact of trucks stacked up waiting for a diesel pump in a port city where heavy-truck traffic is already a significant local concern. Because it is a conditional-use condition rather than a Vehicle Code citation power, it is applied and enforced through the land-use entitlement for the fueling site, administered by the City's Development Services Department and Planning Commission.