Grays Harbor County, WA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 17.20.020 lists the uses permitted by right in the G-1 General Development One District, and subsection E allows parking, repairing and maintaining one heavy truck as an accessory use to a dwelling where the person operating the truck resides on the property where the truck is to be parked. The same one-truck, resident-operator rule appears in the RR Rural Residential District at § 17.40.020(D) and the G-5 General Development Five District at § 17.24.020(H), so it is a countywide pattern rather than a single district's exception.

Because the code frames it as an accessory use tied to a dwelling, a second heavy truck, a truck whose driver lives elsewhere, or a stand-alone truck yard with no dwelling on site falls outside the permitted use and needs conditional use review instead; § 17.20.030(G) lets the board of adjustment approve the storage, repair and maintenance of more than one truck only on a parcel of at least five acres that fronts a major collector, state or federal highway, keeps access designed to route truck traffic away from residential streets, and screens outdoor storage next to residential or commercial property with a fifty-foot setback and a six-foot sight-obscuring fence or evergreen screen. That conditional-use track is where a genuine trucking operation, rather than one operator's personal rig, has to go.