Taylorsville, UT Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 13.24.060 keeps commercial loading and refuse activity away from the street and away from houses. The opening paragraph sets the basic layout rule: loading and refuse collection areas cannot sit between a building and the street, cannot face any street, and must be screened from view of both public and private streets and rights of way. Subsection (A) reinforces that a street itself cannot be used directly for loading, unloading or refuse collection, and subsection (B) requires the building and site design to actually accommodate those functions rather than leaving them to spill into parking or drive aisles.

The size trigger is in subsection (C): any building, or portion of a building, with ten thousand square feet or more of gross floor area that is occupied by a commercial or industrial use receiving regular motor vehicle deliveries must provide and maintain at least one off-street loading space on the same lot. Subsection (D) bars that loading space from blocking required parking, and subsection (F) requires all loading and unloading to happen on site, in addition to the required parking, and never inside a driveway.

Dimensions are fixed in subsection (G): each loading space must be at least twelve feet wide and twenty five feet long, and fourteen feet high if it is enclosed or covered, with adequate room to turn and maneuver. Subsection (E) adds a residential buffer, requiring the loading space to sit at least thirty feet from the edge of the loading dock to any residential district, in the side or rear yard. Subsection (H) ties operating hours to the noise ordinance, so loading and refuse collection at a covered site must follow whatever hours that ordinance sets.