Twin Falls, ID Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Section 9-6-15(A) of the Twin Falls City Code, adopted by the Twin Falls City Council, gives the city authority to determine where passenger and freight curb loading zones go. The city places and maintains the signs and states on them the hours during which the loading zone rules apply, so the posted hours control. A business that wants a zone cannot simply ask for paint: the city will not designate or sign a curb loading zone on special request unless the person makes application for a permit for the zone and pays the actual cost of erecting zoning signs or markers.

The time limit is the practical rule. A loading zone can be occupied by a vehicle while it is actually engaged in loading and unloading persons, supplies or merchandise, for a period not to exceed twenty (20) minutes during any one period of time. Only the police department can allow longer, by special permission. Sitting in the zone while not loading is not covered by the privilege at all.

Curb color is the visual cue. Section 9-6-20(B)(2) specifies yellow curbing with black stenciled letters, if any, for a loading zone, and Section 9-6-20(C) says that where signs or curb markings are in use no person shall park in violation of them.

Related rules sit nearby. Section 9-6-4 authorizes the police department to issue special permits to back a vehicle to the curb for loading or unloading merchandise or materials, on the terms of the permit, and Section 9-6-7 lets vehicles use alleys in the business zone for the specific purpose of loading or unloading merchandise. Paragraphs (B) through (D) of Section 9-6-15 reserve bus stops and taxicab stands for buses and taxicabs.