Spalding County, GA Parking Rules: Commercial & Oversized Vehicles (2026)

Section 2211D(F) of the Spalding County Zoning Ordinance, Appendix IV, governs parking and circulation for planned commercial development inside the North Expressway Improvement District (NEID) overlay, the corridor along U.S. Highway 19/41 running from the Henry County line to the Griffin city limits. Paragraph (F)(4) is direct about large trucks: all delivery vehicle parking, including tractor trailers, must be parked in the rear of any building and not visible from the road. The same subsection layers on three other requirements that shape where any vehicle, truck or car, can sit.

Paragraph (F)(1) keeps automobile parking and service areas out of the required front yard setback and at least thirty feet back from the property line of any adjoining residential zoning lot. Paragraph (F)(2) requires a planting screen, fence or wall at least six feet tall above finished grade wherever commercial parking or a service area borders a residential lot, so the two uses stay visually separated. Paragraph (F)(3) confines all vehicle parking to paved, striped areas, ruling out parking on landscaped ground, gravel or inside the right-of-way.

An identical set of standards, including the same rear-of-building rule for tractor trailers, applies to planned mixed-use development under Section 2212D(F), so the truck-parking restriction follows a project whether it is zoned commercial or mixed-use within the overlay. Compliance is checked at the master development plan stage, when the applicant's site plan showing truck and parking locations goes to the planning commission and board of commissioners under Section 2206D before any building permit issues.