Warner Robins, GA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum loading space size
- 14 ft high x 12 ft wide x 55 ft long
- Trigger for one space
- Floor area over 10,000 sq ft
- Ratio above threshold
- 1 space per 10,000 sq ft
- Reduction authority
- Planning and zoning commission
- Adopting ordinance
- Ord. No. 32-14, 11-3-14
Summary
Warner Robins requires off-street loading and unloading space sized to fourteen feet high, twelve feet wide and fifty-five feet long for qualifying commercial and industrial buildings, with the planning and zoning commission able to shrink that footprint for small-truck-only operations.
Section 63. - Off-street loading and unloading space. Off-street loading and unloading spaces shall be provided as hereinafter required by these regulations. 63.1. Size of off-street loading spaces. Each off-street loading space shall have minimum dimensions of fourteen (14) feet in height, twelve (12) feet in width, and fifty-five (55) feet in length. However, upon sufficient demonstration that a particular loading space will be used exclusively by smaller trucks, the planning and zoning commission may reduce the minimum size.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 69).
Full Breakdown
1 fixes the minimum dimensions at fourteen feet in height, twelve feet in width, and fifty-five feet in length per space. A property owner who can demonstrate the dock will be used exclusively by smaller trucks can ask the planning and zoning commission to approve a reduced size under that same subsection. 2 requires the loading space to connect to a street or alley by a driveway offering satisfactory ingress and egress for trucks. 4 applies a lighter, non-fixed standard for buildings under that threshold.
6 ties the required loading space to the same lot as the building it serves, or to an adjacent lot when shared by agreement. 7 locks the reserved loading area in place: it cannot be reduced or converted to another use unless the use it serves is discontinued, or unless the planning and zoning commission approves an equivalent replacement space. These loading standards were adopted with the 2014 rewrite of the zoning ordinance (Ord. No. 32-14, 11-3-14) and sit directly alongside the city's off-street parking requirements in the same regulatory chapter, so a site plan review for a new commercial building checks both simultaneously.
Violations & Fines
Failure to provide the required loading space is a zoning code violation enforced through the city's site plan and building permit review process; a project that does not show a compliant loading space on its plans will not receive a building permit for the qualifying use. Converting or eliminating an existing required loading area without commission-approved replacement space under Section 63.7 exposes the property to a code compliance citation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do all commercial buildings in Warner Robins need a loading dock?
Can a small business get a smaller loading dock than the code minimum?
Can a business remove its loading dock later to add more retail space?
Sources & Official References
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