Scottsdale, AZ Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 17-119, "Curb loading zones," authorizes the city to determine locations for passenger and freight curb loading zones and requires signs marking each zone and stating the hours the restrictions apply. In a marked passenger curb loading zone, a vehicle may stop only to load or unload passengers, and only for up to three minutes; a vehicle displaying a state physically-disabled parking placard may extend that to five minutes while loading or unloading persons. every day except Sundays and public holidays, but commercial vehicles bearing commercial plates that are actually loading, unloading, picking up, or delivering materials may use a freight zone for up to thirty minutes within those same hours.

A passenger vehicle may also stop temporarily in a freight zone to load or unload passengers, provided it does not block a materials-hauling vehicle waiting to use the zone, and vehicles with a disabled placard get up to five minutes there as well. The section derives from 1972 Code Sections 11-919 through 11-921 and has not been substantively amended since. Enforcement runs through the same notice-of-violation process used citywide in chapter 17: police officers, police aides, and other authorized city employees tag noncompliant vehicles, and the registered owner is presumed responsible for the citation.