Yakima, WA Parking Rules: Oversized Vehicle Parking (2026)

Yakima's oversized-vehicle framework is anchored in zoning, not in a hard residential-street weight cap. Title 15 (Yakima Urban Area Zoning Ordinance) supplies the operative rules. Cargo containers may be placed on properties in residential zones for a maximum of two consecutive weeks at a time, meaning longer-term cargo container storage in residential zoning districts is not allowed. Cargo and semi-truck trailers are allowed as an accessory use to a permitted business in the B-1, B-2, SCC, LCC, AS, GC, RD, M-1, and M-2 zoning districts; outside those zones, semi-trailer storage is constrained. Off-street loading and unloading spaces are required for any use requiring frequent loading or unloading from trucks or other large vehicles. The downtown Residential Parking Permit program supplies an indirect 'oversized' cap on the on-street side: applicants must provide information about their passenger motor vehicle or pickup truck, which shall not exceed eight thousand pounds gross weight, so a larger commercial truck cannot use the residential permit to escape the downtown two-hour limit. On the public right-of-way more generally, YMC Chapter 9.50 (Parking and Rules of the Road) governs parking, supplemented by RCW 46.55.085 (tag-and-tow window of twenty-four hours after tagging) and RCW 46.61.570 distance setbacks (fifteen feet from a fire hydrant, twenty feet from a crosswalk at an intersection, no parking on sidewalks, in intersections, or in front of driveways). For an RV, motor home, semi-truck, or oversized trailer parked indefinitely on a residential street, the state's tag-and-tow mechanism is the primary enforcement tool. Enforcement: Yakima Police Department non-emergency (509) 575-6200.