Yakima County, WA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

060(3) requires off-street loading and unloading spaces, plus room for truck queuing, for any commercial, industrial, or public utility building, restaurant, office building, overnight lodging facility, hospital, institution, school, college, public building, or recreation or entertainment facility that needs to load or unload from trucks or other large vehicles. 22-4, drawn from the Institute of Transportation Engineers' Transportation and Land Development and Traffic Engineering Handbook, and the required length increases if the vehicles actually used exceed the table's dimensions. 060(3)(a), the loading space and its maneuvering area must be located entirely on the property served, and no part of any vehicle using the space may project into the right-of-way of a public or private road.

Loading spaces must sit apart from parking areas and be marked as truck loading spaces, and where a required maneuvering area serves access from a collector arterial or local street, the Reviewing Official can require up to 50 feet of maneuvering width beyond the loading berth. 21, and any loading space that abuts land zoned for residential use must be screened and operated to cut noise and visual impact, which can include architectural barriers, walls, or limits on operating hours. 35 after consulting the ITE handbook, if a smaller facility will serve the development's expected needs.