Cathedral City, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Chapter 12.60 (Loading Zones) of the Cathedral City Municipal Code gives the city traffic engineer the power under § 12.60.010 to make loading zones and passenger loading zones at any place in any business district, and elsewhere in front of the entrance to any place of business or any hall or place used for public assembly. Section 12.60.020 requires loading zones to be marked with yellow paint on the top and face of the curb with black letters reading LOADING ONLY. Section 12.60.030 requires passenger loading zones to be marked with white paint on the top and face of the curb with black letters reading PASSENGER LOADING ONLY.

Section 12.60.050 sets the time rules. Subsection A applies the permission to commercial vehicles only, limits it to the time necessary, and caps it at twenty minutes. Subsection B confines material loading to commercial deliveries, including express and parcel post packages and United States mail. Subsection C allows passenger loading, including personal baggage, for the time necessary and in no event more than three minutes. Subsection D tells enforcement officers to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading and unloading without permitting abuse of the privilege.

Section 12.60.060 prohibits stopping, standing or parking in a yellow loading zone for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or material within those limits, and § 12.60.070 does the same for passenger zones. Section 12.60.080 limits stopping in any alley to loading or unloading persons or materials. Bus zones under § 12.60.090 are for buses only. Under § 12.28.060(D), a commercial vehicle actually loading or unloading freight or goods can back up to the curb if it does not extend beyond the centerline of the street or block traffic. Chapter 12.60 prints no days or hours of operation; § 12.16.130 has the city traffic engineer determine the hours and days of any traffic-control device except where this title specifies them.