Whittier, CA Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing chapter
- WMC Chapter 10.32
- Material loading limit
- 20 minutes, commercial vehicles only
- Passenger/mail limit
- 3 minutes
- Yellow zone hours
- 7 a.m.-6 p.m., except Sundays/holidays
- Max curb reserved
- half of block's total curb length
- Zone marking authority
- city traffic engineer
Summary
Whittier's traffic engineer marks yellow loading zones and white passenger zones by curb paint, capped at half a block's curb length, with strict time limits: twenty minutes for material loading and three minutes for passengers or mail.
Yellow means no stopping, standing or parking at any time between seven a.m. and six p.m. of any day except Sundays and holidays for any purpose other than the loading or unloading of passengers or materials; provided, that the loading or unloading of passengers shall not consume more than three minutes nor the loading or unloading of materials more than twenty minutes.
Full Breakdown
010 authorizes the city traffic engineer to mark loading and passenger loading zones in the central traffic district, any business district, or in front of a place of business or public assembly hall, but reserves no more than one-half of any block's total curb length for loading purposes. 010(C)-(D)). daily except Sundays and holidays for anything but loading or unloading, capping passenger loading at three minutes and materials at twenty minutes; white restricts stopping to passenger loading or depositing mail (also capped at three minutes), with the restriction running at all times unless the zone fronts a closed theater.
mail pickup/delivery, and that passenger-loading time includes loading personal baggage. 060 make it a separate violation to park in a yellow zone, a passenger zone, or an alley for any purpose besides loading or unloading. 070, are normally placed on the far side of an intersection for buses and common carriers.
Violations & Fines
Stopping, standing or parking in a marked yellow loading zone, white passenger zone, or alley for a purpose other than loading or unloading, or exceeding the permitted twenty-minute (materials) or three-minute (passengers/mail) window, violates WMC 10.32.040 through 10.32.060. These are enforced as parking infractions citable by Whittier police and traffic personnel, consistent with the general vehicle code penalty provisions applied citywide to marked-curb violations.
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