Commercial and industrial buildings in unincorporated Santa Rosa County must provide off-street loading spaces — one per 10,000 sq ft of floor area, each at least 12 ft wide, 35 ft deep, and 14 ft high. Loading may never occur from a public right-of-way.
LDC § 4.06.02(E)(2) sets the county's loading-space standard. Every building erected or occupied for commercial or industrial use must provide and maintain one loading space for each 10,000 square feet (or fraction thereof) of floor area. Each loading space must be at least twelve (12) feet wide, thirty-five (35) feet deep, and fourteen (14) feet high, and may not impede normal vehicular circulation in the parking lot. For businesses that primarily use small (non-semi) delivery trucks, overflow parking may satisfy the loading requirement with Planning Director approval. In no case may loading or unloading of any vehicle occur from a public right-of-way. These are commercial standards; residential lots have no loading-zone requirement.
Failure to provide compliant loading space, or loading from the right-of-way, is a site-plan/Code Enforcement violation resolved through permitting corrections or daily fines.
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