Lake County, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Off-street loading in unincorporated Lake County is governed by Section 46.17 of the Zoning Ordinance. In any zoning district, a building (or part) of 10,000 square feet or more of gross floor area occupied by manufacturing, storage, warehouse, goods display, retail, wholesale, market, hotel, hospital, mortuary, laundry, dry cleaning, or similar uses that receive or distribute material by vehicle must provide and maintain at least one off-street loading space on the same parcel, plus one additional loading space for each 20,000 square feet (or major fraction) of gross floor area (Sec. 46.17(a)). Retail nurseries must provide one loading space per acre of use area (Sec. 46.17(b)). Each loading space must be at least 35 feet long and 12 feet wide with an overhead clearance of at least 14 feet (Sec. 46.17(c)). A loading space may not be located in a required front yard and must be screened from adjoining sites by a fence of at least 8 feet when adjacent to an R (residential) district; there must be enough room on site for turning and maneuvering, and required loading spaces may not interfere with access to any required parking lot or space (Sec. 46.17(d)). For drive-through commercial uses, a separate stacking area for at least four cars per window is required (Sec. 46.16(a)). These are private-property site standards reviewed at permitting; the county does not publish a separate on-street commercial loading-zone (yellow curb) program for unincorporated roads, where loading restrictions follow the Vehicle Code and any posted curb markings.