Glendale, CA Parking Rules: Curb Color Rules (2026)

190 authorizes Glendale's traffic and transportation administrator to place curb markings and signs that carry fixed legal meanings under Title 10. A red curb means no stopping, standing or parking at any time except as the state Vehicle Code otherwise permits, with one carve-out: a bus may stop in a red zone that is marked or signed as a bus zone. on any day except Sundays and holidays to loading or unloading only, and even then passenger loading cannot exceed three minutes while loading or unloading materials cannot exceed twenty minutes.

A white curb is reserved for passenger loading and unloading only, capped at three minutes, at any time of day. 84. on days other than Sundays and holidays, as the code sets it out. 200 makes it a separate violation to stop, stand or park contrary to that marking. The same color scheme repeats for posted signs: a 'LOADING ZONE' sign carries the same nine-to-six, three-and-twenty-minute split as a yellow curb, and a 'PASSENGER LOADING ZONE' sign mirrors the white curb's three-minute passenger-only limit. Glendale's traffic and transportation administrator, not individual property or business owners, decides where each color is applied, and a curb painted by a private party without city authorization carries no legal effect under this section.