Duluth, MN Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

Curb painting in Duluth is not decorative; it is how the city marks a loading zone or truck zone once one is created. Section 33-87 lets the city council establish or discontinue truck zones by resolution and gives the director of public service the same authority over loading zones, subject to a report to the council and a window before the change takes effect during which the council can disapprove the director's action. Subsection (c) sets out how a zone gets created: a property owner who wants a loading zone or truck zone next to their premises applies in writing, to the city council for a truck zone or to the director of public service for a loading zone.

If the request is granted, the proper city officer bills the applicant for the estimated cost of publishing any necessary resolution, of placing signs and of painting the curb. Only once that payment reaches the city treasurer does the chief of police install the signs and paint the curb. The same signs-plus-painted-curb approach marks other regulated curb space in the city: § 33-105 requires individual parking meter spaces to be marked by lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street, and § 47-35 uses painted curbs together with signs to mark designated taxicab stands, which no other vehicle may occupy except briefly to load or unload passengers.