Killeen, TX Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Sec. 31-491 of the zoning code sets Killeen's commercial loading rules by tying the number of required loading spaces to a building's use and floor area rather than to a clock. Any building used for retail business, service, manufacturing, storage, warehousing, a hotel, a mortuary, or any similar use that involves receiving or distributing goods by vehicle must provide loading space on the same premises. In the "M-1" light industrial and "M-2" heavy industrial districts, the code requires one loading space for every 10,000 square feet of floor area or fraction of it.

In the "B-1" through "B-5" business districts, one loading space covers the first 5,000 to 15,000 square feet of floor area, with an additional space required for each further 15,000 square feet or fraction of it. Every required loading space must measure at least 10 feet by 25 feet, a size floor carried over unchanged from the 1963 code. The ordinance does not set a curfew or restricted hours for loading and unloading; instead it caps the total number of spaces a site must build and their minimum footprint, leaving the timing of deliveries to the property owner and its tenants.

Fire lanes are treated separately: the fire code bars using a required fire lane as a substitute loading zone, and a required fire lane may never be blocked by a parked or standing vehicle. Because the loading-space count is set at the time a building permit or certificate of occupancy is issued, a change of use or an expansion that raises floor area can trigger a recalculation and require additional loading space before the new occupancy is approved.