Watsonville, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Watsonville Municipal Code § 4-5.1102 gives the City Engineer the power to paint curbs and assigns each color a meaning. Yellow means no stopping, standing, or parking between 7:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on any day except Sundays and holidays, for any purpose other than loading or unloading passengers or materials. Loading passengers cannot consume more than three minutes, and loading materials cannot consume more than twenty minutes. White curbs bar everything except passenger loading of up to three minutes, on the same hours, with two exceptions printed in the section: in front of a hotel the restriction applies at all times, and in front of a theater it applies at all times except when the theater is closed. Green curbs are not loading zones. They limit parking to twenty minutes between the same hours.

Section 4-5.1101 controls where zones go. The City Engineer can mark them at any place in a business district, and elsewhere in front of the entrance to a place of business or a hall or place used for public assembly. No more than one-half of the total curb length in any block can be reserved for loading zone purposes. Loading zones carry a yellow line stenciled "Loading Only" on top of the curb, and passenger zones carry a white line stenciled "Passenger Loading Only".

Section 4-5.1103 narrows what counts as loading materials. The permission applies only to commercial vehicles, only to commercial deliveries and the delivery or pickup of express and parcel post packages and United States mail, and never beyond twenty minutes. Passenger loading includes personal baggage but stops at three minutes. The section directs that the limits be enforced so as to accommodate necessary and reasonable loading or unloading without permitting abuses of the privileges granted. Section 4-5.1104 makes it unlawful to stop, stand, or park in a yellow loading zone for any other purpose, and § 4-5.1106 limits stopping in any alley to the loading or unloading of persons or materials.