Navajo County, AZ Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Article 16 of the Zoning Ordinance splits vehicle-space requirements into two tables: Section 1601 sets required parking by land use, two spaces per single-family dwelling, for example, and Section 1602 sets required loading and unloading spaces for buildings that generate freight traffic. The table lists only two use classifications: Commercial Buildings at one space per 25,000 square feet of building, and Wholesale, Manufacturing and Industrial Buildings at one space per 10,000 square feet, reflecting the heavier truck traffic those uses generate. Four numbered rules round out the section.

1 rounds up and requires one additional space. 2 requires every loading and unloading space to sit on the same lot as the use it serves, and specifically bars counting a loading space toward the separate parking-space requirement in Section 1601, so a site cannot double-count a single striped space for both purposes. 3 allows two or more buildings or uses to share loading spaces jointly, as long as the combined total still meets the sum of what each use would need standing alone. 4 applies the same computed-separately rule to a single mixed-use building.

The Community Development Department's Director administers this table alongside site-plan and building-permit review for any commercial or industrial project in the unincorporated county, from Heber-Overgaard's tourist-commercial strip to industrial parcels along I-40 near Joseph City.