Bothell, WA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Chapter 10.45 of the Bothell Municipal Code governs parking restrictions on residential streets in the City of Bothell. Where the city has posted a time limit or a permit-only requirement under BMC 10.40.030 or 10.45.065, a residential parking permit exempts one specified vehicle from citation for parking longer than the posted limit in the one zone for which the permit was issued, and the permit never authorizes parking for more than seven consecutive hours in any one location. Section 10.45.015 then draws a hard line: no permit under the chapter is issued for a commercial vehicle over 10,000 pounds licensed gross vehicle weight. The test is the licensed weight, not the paint on the door or the driver's trade.

This is a permit limit, not a freestanding ban on parking a work truck at home. What it does is leave a heavy commercial vehicle subject to every posted time limit and permit sign with no exemption available. Even a lighter vehicle that qualifies for a permit gets no guaranteed space and no relief from no parking zones, load zones, or fire lanes under BMC 10.45.010.

Permits go only to residents who live on the hundred block for which the permit is issued, for vehicles they own or legally control (BMC 10.45.020). The police department issues them to residents with insufficient off-street parking spaces (BMC 10.45.030), and the permit is valid only for the vehicle named on it. Separately, BMC 10.50.010 lets the city post weight limits on named streets when signs are up: 10,000 pounds gross weight on Holly Hills Drive N.E., on N.E. 195th Street between Holly Hills Drive N.E. and 130th Ave. N.E., and on N.E. 192nd Place, and 8,000 pounds on Ross Road between N.E. 185th and N.E. 192nd. Emergency vehicles and local deliveries and pickups are excepted from those street limits.