Walla Walla County, WA Parking Rules: EV Charging (2026)

WWCC 17.08.212A defines an electric vehicle battery charging station as an electrical component assembly, or cluster of assemblies, designed specifically to charge batteries within electric vehicles, and requires that any such station meet or exceed the standards set out in chapter 19.28 RCW and the rules adopted under RCW 19.27.540. That definition feeds directly into the county's permitted-use table at WWCC 17.16.014, which lists Electric Vehicle Battery Charging Station as an accessory use marked P, for permitted, in every one of the county's industrial and commercial zones: Industrial Agriculture Mixed, Industrial Agriculture Heavy, Heavy Industrial, Light Industrial, Industrial/Business Park, Neighborhood Commercial, General Commercial, Burbank Commercial, and Public Reserve.

Under the table's key, a P means the use is allowed outright, subject only to the code's general review procedures, with no conditional use permit or administrative conditional use permit required, unlike many other accessory uses the table lists as C or AC. The county's separate residential accessory-use table does not list a charging station as its own line item, so a station serving a house or farm typically falls under the broader Accessory Use category, marked P3 across residential and rural zones, rather than this specific commercial listing.

Community Development reviews a proposed charging station against the applicable zone's table entry and against the state electrical and building code standards referenced in the definition during permit review.