Auburn, AL Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 22-57 requires loading zones to be marked off within the parking meter zones described in section 22-47, which covers College Street, Magnolia Avenue, Gay Street, Tichenor Avenue, Wright Street, the downtown surface parking lots and the Wright Street Deck, as well as any zone established later. The marking itself must be lines painted or durably marked on the curbing or surface of the street, matching the marking standard section 22-48 sets for ordinary metered spaces. Once marked, each loading zone space may only be used for the purpose of loading and unloading; parking there for any other purpose is not authorized by this section.

Section 22-58 makes clear that nothing in the loading-zone provisions limits the city manager's separate authority to establish transit stops, taxicab stands, or accommodate the loading and unloading of trucks, vans or other commercial vehicles elsewhere. Both sections were enacted by Ordinance No. 2754 on March 6, 2012. The chapter does not set a specific dollar fine tied to section 22-57 by name the way it does for sections 22-32 through 22-37 in section 22-38; a vehicle occupying a marked loading zone without loading or unloading would instead be handled under the general prohibited-parking and enforcement provisions of division 1 and division 2, including the tow-away authority in section 22-28 for any place where parking is otherwise restricted.