Grant County, WA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

140, Off-street Loading Requirements, governs commercial and industrial loading in unincorporated Grant County. Subsection (a) applies the rule to every non-residential building used for retail, wholesale, manufacturing, or storage, explicitly excluding self-service storage facilities, and (1) triggers the requirement at a size threshold: one loading space is required for each building with 10,000 square feet or more of gross floor area. Subsection (2) sets the physical dimensions: a minimum of 10 feet wide by 30 feet long, with an unobstructed vertical clearance of 14 feet 6 inches, surfaced and maintained, and it requires loading areas to be kept separate from required parking and clearly designated as truck loading spaces.

The residential-protection piece is subsection (3): any loading space located within 100 feet of areas designated for residential use must be screened and operated to reduce noise and visual impacts, and the code lists specific mitigation tools, architectural or structural barriers, berms, walls, or a restriction on hours of operation, that the county can require rather than leaving the choice open-ended. Subsection (4) extends the screening duty to dumpsters as well, requiring loading areas and dumpsters to be screened from public streets and pedestrian connections with walls, trellises, arcades, or landscaping, so the loading-and-servicing side of a commercial building stays out of view from the street even where it is not adjacent to housing.