Camarillo, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

020 of the Camarillo Municipal Code limits what a loading zone can be used for: an operator may stop only to load or unload passengers or materials, never to park generally. Passenger stops max out at three minutes; stops for loading or unloading materials get twenty minutes. Zones themselves are not self-created, the city council must specify each one by resolution before the limit applies, and the director of public works then installs the signage and curb paint markings required under the State Vehicle Code to put drivers on notice.

030, applies the same three-minute cap to dedicated passenger loading spots, including a thirty-foot curb zone at hotel main entrances and the curb outside a theater's main entrance and vestibule while a performance is running, plus any passenger zone the council separately designates by resolution. Both sections trace back to Ordinance 33 from 1965 and were most recently touched by Ordinance No. 1064 in 2011, which reorganized enforcement language. Because the underlying authority comes from a city council resolution rather than the ordinance text itself, the exact locations, hours, and postings for Camarillo's loading zones vary block to block and are controlled by whatever signage the public works department has actually installed at that curb.