Nassau County, FL Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

4 of the Land Development Code governs both off-street parking and off-street loading for every use in unincorporated Nassau County. Subsection (D) sets the baseline location rule: required parking or loading spaces have to sit on the same lot or parcel as the structure they serve whenever that's feasible, and only when practical difficulties make that impossible can the county allow the facility to sit on another site, capped at four hundred feet away. Subsection (M) then sets the loading-space count itself, scaled to a business's total floor area: a retail store, warehouse, wholesale establishment, industrial plant, factory, freight terminal, restaurant, mortuary or dry-cleaning establishment needs one loading space once it passes 5,000 square feet, a second space between 25,000 and 60,000 square feet, a third between 60,000 and 120,000, a fourth between 120,000 and 200,000, and a fifth between 200,000 and 290,000, with an additional space required for every 90,000 square feet beyond that.

Loading spaces must be directly accessible from a street or alley without crossing another required parking or loading space, and each one has to be arranged so a truck or trailer combination can enter and exit safely. The section carries forward from the county's 2002 parking ordinance and was last amended by Ordinance No. 2023-040. Design and layout otherwise track the county's Roadway and Drainage Standards, and review runs through the Planning and Economic Opportunity Department as part of site plan approval; nothing in the section sets separate operating hours for loading activity.