Franklin County, KY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 155.336, Off-Street Loading, is the Fiscal Court's rule for commercial loading in the zoning chapter. It requires space on the lot itself, not a curb zone on the street. Subsection (A) applies in all zoning districts except residential districts and calls for one off-street loading area for standing, loading and unloading. The count is one for each building, or one for each 25,000 square feet of usable floor area when buildings are grouped and contiguous.

Subsection (B) sets the dimensions for trailer trucks: when trailer trucks are required for loading and unloading, the space provided shall be 60 feet in depth by 14 feet in width by 14 feet in height. The 14-foot height figure is a clearance requirement, so canopies, overhead doors and wires in the bay count against it.

The section prints no hours of operation, no delivery-time window and no curbside loading-zone designation. Those items are not part of § 155.336, so a business in unincorporated Franklin County, Kentucky looks to this section for the physical space requirement only.

Several neighboring parking sections shape how a loading area works on the ground. Section 155.333(A) bars back-out parking onto a public street for everything except one- and two-dwelling parcels, so a loading area cannot require a vehicle to back into the street to leave. Section 155.335(B) requires drives contiguous to the front of commercial structures, where parking areas have more than two parking bays, to carry an eight-foot painted fire lane and two 12-foot traffic lanes. Section 155.337(A) keeps parking or loading spaces established before the code was adopted or amended in place so long as the building, structure or use remains, unless the owner provides an equivalent number of required spaces elsewhere in conformance with the chapter. Frankfort is governed by its own code.