Santa Clarita, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Hours regulated
- 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Sunday
- Passenger vehicle limit
- 3 minutes
- Commercial vehicle limit
- 20 minutes
- Standard zone length
- Up to 30 feet
- Repeat-violation fine
- $2.00 per added violation (§ 12.64.170)
Summary
In a marked Santa Clarita loading zone, Municipal Code Section 12.64.020 limits stops to loading or unloading between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. except Sunday. A passenger vehicle gets three minutes; a commercial vehicle gets twenty minutes. Zones the Director marks generally run no more than thirty feet unless the Council sets a different length.
An operator shall not stop for any purpose other than loading or unloading between the hours of seven a.m. and six p.m. on any day except Sunday, or at such time as the Council may designate, in any place marked by the Director as provided in this section. Such stop shall not exceed three (3) minutes for a passenger vehicle and shall not exceed twenty (20) minutes for a commercial vehicle in any loading zone so marked by the Director in accordance with the State Vehicle Code. ... Unless otherwise specified by the Council, such loading zone shall not exceed thirty (30) feet in length.
Full Breakdown
on any day except Sunday, in any place the Director has marked as a commercial loading zone under the State Vehicle Code. Within that window, a passenger vehicle may not stop more than three minutes and a commercial vehicle may not stop more than twenty minutes. Unless the Council specifies otherwise, a marked loading zone runs no more than thirty feet, and the ordinance itself designates one such zone: thirty feet along the east side of Wayman Street starting southerly from a point one hundred sixty-two feet from the curb return at Lyons Avenue.
00 under subsection B of that section. 00. The loading zone rule dates to Ordinance 89-12 (1989) and was amended by Ordinance 96-19 in April 1996 to add the Wayman Street zone.
Violations & Fines
Overstaying the three-minute passenger or twenty-minute commercial limit in a marked loading zone is an infraction under Section 12.12.010 (up to $50.00 first offense). If a citation is already attached and the vehicle remains past the limit, Section 12.64.170 treats each further period as an additional violation, capped at three per day, at $2.00 per additional violation.
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