Burien, WA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Burien Municipal Code § 10.15.050 governs every place in the City of Burien, King County, Washington, that is marked as a freight curb loading zone. No person can park, stand, or stop a vehicle there for any purpose or length of time other than the expeditious unloading and delivery or pickup and loading of materials, and only during the hours when the provisions applicable to that zone are in effect. In no case can a stop for loading and unloading of materials exceed 30 minutes.

Passenger vehicles get a narrow allowance. Under § 10.15.050(2) the operator of a passenger vehicle can stop temporarily at a freight curb loading zone to receive or discharge passengers, but only when the stop does not interfere with a motor vehicle used for transporting materials that is waiting to enter, or about to enter, the zone. Trucks have priority at the curb.

The section does not print the hours of any particular zone. Those come from the restriction the city establishes and posts. Section 10.15.030 authorizes the city manager or a designee to set time limits and requires signs or markings on the pavement or curb to give notice, and § 10.15.045 makes it unlawful to stop where official signs prohibit stopping.

Two neighboring rules matter to delivery drivers. Section 10.15.060 bars vehicles wider than 90 inches from parking on a public street right-of-way or alley, but it exempts standing during short-term deliveries and defines parked as unattended and not actively engaged in loading, unloading, delivering, or picking up a person or item. Section 10.15.130 lets police officers, community service inspectors and parking enforcement officers use manual, electronic, photo, or video devices to check overtime parking, and bars avoiding a time limit by moving or reparking on either side of a street within the same block. Reparking inside the same block does not reset the 30 minutes.