Wyoming, MI Parking Rules: Loading Zones (2026)

Sec. 90-602 of the Wyoming, Michigan (Kent County) Zoning Ordinance requires every manufacturing, storage, warehouse, retail-sales or consumer-service building to hold adequate on-site space for standing, loading and unloading, so trucks do not spill onto streets, alleys or parking spaces. Each required berth must be ten feet wide by 50 feet long with 15-foot vertical clearance. The count is set by Table 90-602 against useable floor area (UFA): none under 2,000 square feet; one space from 2,001 to 20,000 square feet; one space plus one for each additional 20,000 square feet up to 100,000 square feet; five spaces plus one per 40,000 square feet up to 500,000 square feet; and 15 spaces plus one per 80,000 square feet above that.

Overhead doors serving truck loading areas cannot face the front yard and must be screened from any public street or adjoining residential district. No loading space may sit closer than 55 feet to a residential zoning district unless it adjoins a public alley, sits inside a fully enclosed building, or is screened on all residential-facing sides by a solid masonry wall or ornamental fence at least five feet tall and approved by the planning commission. A developer who can show the standard requirement would be excessive may apply for a loading deferment, letting the city planner approve a site plan that reserves paved area for future loading spaces without building them immediately; the city planner can later require the deferred spaces built if the use changes.

Loading spaces are legally distinct from the parking spaces required under Sec. 90-600, and Sec. 90-1911 cross-references Sec. 90-602 for off-street loading in the form-based-code districts. Compliance is checked during site plan review before a certificate of occupancy issues.