Atlantic County, NJ Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 86-702 governs off-street parking and loading for any land development subject to Atlantic County Development Review Committee (DRC) review, which reaches sites along a County road or affecting a County drainage facility. Subsection F flatly prohibits locating any part of an off-street truck loading or unloading space within the right-of-way of a County road, and requires on-site truck loading berths to be designed to the current edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Transportation and Traffic Engineering Handbook. Subsection G requires the loading and unloading spaces themselves to be located and designed so a truck can maneuver from a driveway into and out of the space without encroaching on any existing or future County-owned right-of-way, including the sidewalk area.

Subsection H layers on a circulation and screening standard: truck-circulation patterns must avoid interfering with automobile and pedestrian movement or with high-turnover parking, and loading docks must be located away from pedestrian movement and screened from view of parking areas, adjacent properties or adjacent streets. These loading standards sit alongside the County's general parking design rules in the same section, including a nine-by-eighteen-foot minimum stall size and a bar on vehicles backing onto a County road, and they apply on top of whatever loading requirements the host municipality's own zoning or site plan ordinance sets.

Because Atlantic County does not zone, § 86-702 does not set the number of required loading berths; the municipality's ordinance does that, and the County only layers on the right-of-way and circulation conditions above when the DRC has review authority over the site.