Anderson County, SC Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 24-216, adopted by Ordinance No. 03-007 on April 15, 2003 and carried forward as former Code 2000 § 38-216, sits in the off-street parking and loading standards of the county zoning ordinance in Chapter 24. It applies countywide to the unincorporated area outside Anderson, Belton, Honea Path, Williamston and Pendleton, each of which enforces its own separate municipal code. Subsection (a) requires every use to size its loading area to its actual operational needs, and it specifically bars any vehicle being loaded or unloaded in the course of normal operations from standing in or projecting onto a public street or sidewalk while doing so.

Subsection (b) ties the loading area to the parcel it serves: it must be located on the same lot or parcel of land as the structure it supports, so a business cannot rely on loading space located across the street or on a neighboring tract. The loading requirement sits alongside the county's off-street parking rules in §§ 24-213 through 24-215, covering where parking may be located, design standards, and joint use of shared lots, and the county's group-development site plan review requires the site's parking and loading/unloading areas to be shown on the plan submitted to the development standards office before any building permit issues.

Section 24-216 sets no minimum number of loading berths or dock dimensions itself; the size and count are whatever each use needs to keep loading traffic off the public right-of-way.