Tigard, OR Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Tigard Municipal Code § 10.28.136 lets the City Council create loading zones by resolution along any street in the City of Tigard, Washington County, Oregon, for loading and unloading merchandise and persons. In deciding, the Council considers the volume and nature of business in the area, the traffic demands on the street, the needs of the adjacent business or businesses and of other businesses in the immediate area, and the width and surface of the street. Zones are marked by signage. A resident or property owner can apply, and the city can require the applicant to pay the cost of the necessary signs and poles and of the labor to install them.

Subsection B sets the use rule. Zones are reserved for commercial vehicles loading and unloading persons and commodities during the designated hours on all days except Sundays and holidays. Noncommercial vehicles can use the zone only while actually loading or unloading and must give way on demand to a commercial vehicle. Commercial vehicles hold the zone only for the time reasonably necessary, and employees of the business it serves cannot use it for any purpose except continuous loading or unloading. At all times outside the designated hours, the zone is available for general use (subsection C).

Section 10.28.170.N prints the time cap: a commercial vehicle actually engaged in loading or unloading goods, wares, merchandise or materials can stay for a period not exceeding 20 minutes, and a taxicab loading or unloading passengers or merchandise for not exceeding two minutes. Bus loading zones under § 10.28.170.O allow two minutes.

Work that needs curb space has its own permit under § 10.28.138. A construction zone permit or temporary loading zone permit is applied for in writing on a form from the Community Development Director, the term is set by the director and cannot exceed one year, the fee is set by City Council resolution and paid at application, and the permit must be legible and visible from outside the vehicle. Under § 10.28.010.A, temporary standing while actually loading or unloading is not counted as parking.