Haverford, PA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Haverford Township regulates loading as a site-design requirement in the zoning chapter rather than as a curb schedule with posted hours. Section 182-708A(1) of the Township Code requires off-street loading and unloading space with proper and safe access from a street or alley on each lot used for commercial or other purposes where such facilities are deemed necessary to adequately serve the use, and all such spaces must be located at the rear of the building.

The design standards are specific. Each space must be at least 12 feet wide by 60 feet long and have at least 15 feet vertical clearance, although smaller spaces are allowed if adequate for the particular delivery vehicles. Spaces need adequate maneuvering area to enter and exit, cannot overlap, occupy or interfere with required driveways and parking spaces, and need an all-weather surface for access in every season. No loading space is allowed within the required front yard setback from any street, and none can be built in a front yard or between a street right-of-way line and a building line.

Operations are covered too. Required off-street parking space, including aisles, cannot be used for loading and unloading except where night loading or other satisfactory arrangements are made for hours when business operations are suspended (§ 182-708A(2)). Facilities must be designed so trucks need not back in or out on, or park in, any public right-of-way (§ 182-708A(3)), and no truck can stand in a right-of-way or automobile parking area, including aisles, while the area is used for parking or in any way block the flow of persons or vehicles (§ 182-708A(4)). Section 182-708 prints no clock-hour delivery window; the only timing language is the night loading arrangement.

The number of spaces must be adequate for the proposed use, and where a use is reviewed by the Zoning Hearing Board or the Planning Commission, that body approves the number (§ 182-708B). In residential districts, § 182-706A(5)(b) allows no commercial vehicle to load or unload except for normal retail deliveries or moving the contents of a home, and § 182-706A(5)(c) makes it unlawful to use residential premises as a loading station or warehouse.