Walton County, GA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Article 7, Part 7-2 of the Land Development Ordinance is Walton County's off-street loading standard, and it works on a square-footage trigger rather than a time-of-day rule. Section 7-2-100(B) requires retail, office, wholesale, industrial, governmental and institutional uses, including assembly places, hospitals and schools, to provide one loading space for the first 25,000 square feet of total floor area, with the schedule then adding a second space between 25,001 and 99,999 square feet, a third between 100,000 and 159,999, a fourth between 160,000 and 239,999, a fifth between 240,000 and 349,999, and one additional space for every further 100,000 square feet or fraction of it.

Bus and trucking terminals instead have to provide enough space to hold the maximum number of buses or trucks stored or loaded at the terminal at one time. Section 7-2-110 requires the loading space sit on the same lot as the building it serves, or an adjacent lot if shared, with direct access to a street or alley or a driveway that gives trucks satisfactory ingress and egress, and the area is a permanent reservation that cannot be converted to another use while the served use continues.

Section 7-2-120 sets the physical dimensions: 14 feet of vertical clearance, 12 feet of width and 55 feet of length, though the Director can cut the length to as little as 35 feet on a showing the space will be used only by shorter trucks. Loading and parking areas cannot substitute for each other under the ordinance.