Cheektowaga, NY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 260-57, titled "Screening of service entrances in business and manufacturing districts," states the rule in a single sentence: where a loading or unloading platform or any service entrance in a business or manufacturing district faces a lot within an R District boundary, that platform or entrance must be effectively screened from the R District. The Town's off-street parking site standards in § 260-43C separately require that areas counted as required parking stay unobstructed and free of every use except off-street loading or unloading, so a loading operation cannot be scattered into a lot's required parking count.

The chapter does not set specific loading-dock hours, a minimum number of loading berths, or minimum berth dimensions anywhere in Chapter 260; the operative constraint for a loading area is the screening duty in § 260-57, enforced through the same site-plan and building-permit review that governs the rest of a commercial or industrial site. A related buffering rule appears at § 260-53A(6), which requires side and rear lot lines of a business or manufacturing lot abutting an R District to be fenced or planting-screened to a height of six or 12 feet, reinforcing the same residential-buffer purpose that § 260-57 applies specifically to loading platforms and service entrances.