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

527, Storage, vehicles and equipment, governs where oversized trucks and heavy equipment can sit outdoors in unincorporated Kitsap County's residential and rural districts. In the rural residential (RR) and rural protection (RP) zones, subsection A allows only one piece of heavy equipment to be stored on a property, and it must be either enclosed within a permitted structure, such as a garage or shop, or screened to the satisfaction of the director if it stays outdoors. The same one-piece cap and enclose-or-screen requirement applies again under subsection E in five specific village residential zones: Keyport Village low residential, Manchester Village low residential, Manchester Village residential, Suquamish Village low residential, and Suquamish Village residential.

In the rural industrial and rural commercial zones, subsection C drops the one-piece cap but instead requires all such storage to sit behind a twenty-five-foot screening buffer from public view, and the applicant must demonstrate the storage serves the immediate population rather than an unrelated off-site business. The Twelve Trees Employment Center zone goes further under subsection F, requiring storage to be indoor or within a covered structure altogether. 030(C), so a lit storage yard cannot spill glare onto neighboring lots. 527.