Kent, WA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

Kent does not impose a blanket citywide overnight parking ban. Instead, KCC 9.38.045 authorizes the traffic engineer to post signs restricting parking between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. on a defined list of streets and street segments, and the prohibition only takes legal effect once the sign goes up. The list covers a dozen specific locations, among them 25th Avenue South near South 260th Street, several segments of Green River Road on both the north and south sides of the city, Reiten Road near Kensington Avenue South, Russell Road from West Meeker Street south, South 203rd Street near Chestnut Ridge Park, part of South 228th Street, and stretches of Southeast 274th Street and Southeast 276th Place near Springwood Park.

A related but separate overnight restriction, KCC 9.38.050, bars parking from 4:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. (except Sundays and holidays) on a short list of downtown streets, including Meeker Street, Gowe Street, Titus Street, First Avenue, Second Avenue, Railroad Avenue, and State Avenue, again only where signed. Both restrictions were adopted under the Model Traffic Ordinance authority Kent claims in KCC 9.36.010 and RCW 46.61.570, which lets a municipality restrict parking and create no-parking zones on its own streets and rights-of-way. Because the bans are location-specific rather than city-wide, a driver must check for posted signage to know whether a given block is covered.

Both sections carry the same $50 infraction penalty, and a vehicle left in violation can also be subject to impoundment under KCC 9.38.015 if leaving it poses a public safety concern.