Collierville, TN Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 72.29 of the Collierville Code of Ordinances is short and exact. In any place the Town has marked as a loading and unloading zone, no person shall park a vehicle for any purpose or period of time other than the expeditious loading or unloading of passengers or merchandise. The code prints no posted hours in this section, so the marking by the Town defines the zone, and the time limit is the word expeditious.

The definitions in § 72.28(B) matter here. PARK means the standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, other than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading persons or cargo. A delivery driver actually unloading is therefore outside the parking prohibition that applies on the rest of the street, while a driver who leaves the vehicle sitting is not. Section 72.28(A)(11) separately bars stopping beside any curb painted yellow or red by the municipality.

On residential streets, § 72.37(C) lets equipment be parked on a street for the actual purpose of loading or unloading goods, wares or merchandise, or accomplishing repairs, limited to the actual time consumed in the operation.

Off-street loading is a zoning requirement. Section 151.116(A) requires uses with business operations that include unloading goods, materials, items or stock for delivery or shipping to provide at least one loading area, either on-site or along the curb of the abutting street or internal drive, subject to site plan review under § 151.311. An on-site loading area is located to the rear of the building adjacent to the loading doors, arranged for safe and convenient access to a street, never extending into the required drive aisle of a parking area, and surfaced with asphalt, concrete or another hard surface with adequate drainage. The Director of Development Services or a designee can waive or modify the loading berth requirements at site plan review when the use does not need them.