Puyallup, WA Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

055 governs how parking areas, including driveways and access aisles, must be built and maintained citywide. The threshold rule is blunt: no parking area may obtain access from an unpaved alley or street, and every off-street parking area, plus the pedestrian and vehicular access leading to it (including any unimproved alley used for access), must be paved using permeable paving such as asphalt, concrete or pavers, built to city standards. A property owner can seek relief only by demonstrating technical infeasibility to the city engineer, who may then approve traditional detention/retention or direct discharge in accordance with the city's storm water management manual.

Paved surfaces must be graded and drained so surface water is disposed of per the current storm water management standards, and the design must keep runoff from draining across public sidewalks or onto neighboring properties. Where a parking lot drains to the municipal storm system, the city engineer can require oil separation facilities to keep oil and petroleum products out of the storm drains. 055 requires parking spaces and access aisles to be clearly marked for safe circulation, and any wall, fence or tree within or next to a required parking area must be shielded by curbing or wheel stops set at least three feet away.

Site lighting for parking areas has to be aimed away from public streets and residential property. 58. The section traces to Ordinance 2147 (1987), amended by Ordinance 2662 (2000), Ordinance 3073 (2014) and Ordinance 3203 (2019).