Pitt County, NC Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 8(VVVV), Oversized Vehicle Parking (Commercial), governs any facility built specifically to park commercial trucks and other oversized vehicles rather than a single business owner parking one truck on its own lot. In the RA district the use needs Conditional Zoning District approval under Section 14(G) before it can operate; in the GC, HC, LI and GI districts it is permitted by right as long as the section's development standards are met.

The use-separation rule requires every oversized vehicle to park at least 50 feet from any adjoining residentially-zoned property and at least 100 feet from any residence, church, school, or public institution. The facility needs a minimum of two acres, a buffer yard meeting Section 10(H) screening standards along its entire perimeter, and a security fence at least six feet tall. Parking surfaces do not have to be paved, but they must be graded, drained, stabilized and built with an all-weather surface that controls dust and erosion.

In residential districts specifically, the ordinance bans four activities at these facilities outright: storing or accumulating wrecked, scrapped, dismantled or inoperable vehicles, machinery, equipment or parts; storing or accumulating junk materials such as scrap metal, debris, waste paper, rags, batteries or used building materials; selling fuel; and providing automotive repair services. Those four prohibitions target the truck-yard-turned-junkyard pattern the county evidently wanted to head off when it allowed commercial vehicle parking near homes.