Placentia, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 13.56.030 of the Placentia Municipal Code sets the loading limits. Stopping to load or unload materials applies only to commercial vehicles and cannot extend beyond the time necessary, and in no event more than 20 minutes. Loading of materials covers only commercial deliveries, delivery or pickup of express and parcel post packages, and the United States mail. Stopping to load or unload passengers includes personal baggage but is capped at three minutes. The section also tells enforcement to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading without permitting abuse of the privilege.

The public works director designates the zones. Under § 13.56.010 loading zones and passenger loading zones can be marked at any place in any business district, and in front of the entrance to a place of business or public assembly if the director finds adequate off-street loading is not available and no existing zone serves. No more than 1/2 of the total curb length in any block can be reserved for loading. Under § 13.56.020, a loading zone is a yellow painted line with black stenciled letters "LOADING ONLY," and a passenger loading zone is a white line stenciled "PASSENGER LOADING ONLY."

Curb colors carry their own hours under § 13.48.030. Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or materials, using the three-minute and 20-minute limits. White allows only passenger loading or depositing mail, not exceeding three minutes, with all-hours enforcement in front of a hotel or mailbox and in front of a theater except when it is closed. Green limits parking to 20 minutes between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.

Sections 13.56.040 and 13.56.050 prohibit stopping in yellow and passenger zones for any other purpose. Section 13.56.060 reserves bus zones, painted red with "NO STANDING," for buses. Commercial vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or more are otherwise barred from public streets by § 13.48.200, except while loading or unloading for the time reasonably necessary, while servicing property in the block, or up to one hour on designated truck routes.