Union, NY Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

The loading rule is § 300-51.7(F) of the Town of Union zoning chapter. It applies to every building, structure or part thereof having over 5,000 square feet of gross building area erected and occupied for commerce, hospital, laundry, dry cleaning, places of public assembly, industry and other similar uses involved in the receipt and distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise. Such a use must provide and permanently maintain adequate space for standing, loading and unloading services, and no use can send delivery or pick-up vehicles onto public streets to wait, stage or maneuver, except in the CB District.

Subsection F(1) fixes the size: at least one truck standing, loading and unloading space not less than 12 feet in width, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in height, plus one additional space of those dimensions for every additional 10,000 square feet or fraction thereof of gross area. Separate uses can share loading facilities if the total number of spaces is not less than the sum of the separate requirements (F(2)). Access must come directly from a public street or alley or from a right-of-way that does not interfere with public convenience (F(3)).

The loading space is on top of parking, not part of it: F(4) says it is provided in addition to off-street parking space and is not counted as parking, and § 300-51.6(G) bars using required parking to satisfy loading berth requirements. Loading areas need dustless, durable, all-weather pavement, adequately drained, subject to Planning Board approval (F(5)). Next to a residential zone, a buffer screen is required under Article 54 (F(6)), and lighting follows Article 55 (F(7)). Maneuvering space must prevent vehicles backing from or onto the public right-of-way and cannot sit inside a public street right-of-way (F(8) and F(9)). The section prints no time-of-day loading hours, so it works as a space and design standard rather than a schedule.