Forsyth County, GA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

1 requires every building used for manufacturing, storage, a warehouse, a truck freight terminal, a department store, a wholesale store, a market, a hotel, motel, or extended stay hotel or motel, a hospital, a mortuary, a dry cleaning plant, retail business, or any similarly freight-heavy use to provide and maintain adequate space on the same lot for standing, loading, and unloading vehicles, so deliveries do not interfere with public streets and alleys. 2 sets the physical standard for that space: unless the director approves otherwise, each loading space must be at least 14 feet wide, 60 feet long, and provide 14 feet of vertical clearance, and it must sit at the rear of the building unless the site design makes a rear location impossible, in which case it can move to the side.

3 fixes how many spaces a project needs: light industrial buildings get one loading space for the first 10,000 square feet of gross floor area, or any fraction of it, and one more for every additional 25,000 square feet, while retail and other non-industrial uses get one space for the first 5,000 square feet and one more for every additional 10,000 square feet. A big-box retailer and a small light-industrial warehouse can therefore land on very different loading requirements even at a similar overall size, because the code applies separate thresholds to each use category.