Lynnwood, WA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)
Key Facts
- No-parking street list
- LMC 11.44.090, posted streets, any time
- Mailbox buffer
- 10 feet on either side of a mailbox
- Mailbox hours
- 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., postal delivery days
- Base penalty
- $30.00 traffic infraction (LMC 11.44.140)
- Chapter 11.18 fine
- $112.00, tied to the state fine
- Failure-to-respond penalty
- $25.00 added by the court
- Traffic engineer no-parking zones
- up to 300 feet long (LMC 11.44.105)
Summary
Lynnwood, Washington bans parking at any time on a list of posted streets, from Cedar Valley Road to 216th Street SW, and forbids parking within 10 feet of either side of a curbside mailbox from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on mail delivery days. The base penalty is a $30.00 traffic infraction.
When signs are erected giving notice thereof, no person shall park a vehicle at any time upon any of the following described streets in any area which may be so posted:Street Name ... It is unlawful to park a motor vehicle on a roadway in front of or on a roadway within 10 feet of either side of a public or private mailbox or grouping of mailboxes located curbside or roadside within or outside of a public right-of-way between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on days the United States Postal Service is scheduled to deliver mail. ... A. Failure to perform any act required or the performance of any act prohibited by this chapter is a traffic infraction. The penalty for such infraction shall be $30.00; provided, however, that the fine for an infraction prosecuted under Chapter 11.18 LMC shall be $112.00;
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 3512, passed May 26, 2026).
Full Breakdown
Chapter 11.44 of the Lynnwood Municipal Code, Stopping, Standing or Parking, sets the on-street rules inside the city limits in Snohomish County, Washington. Section 11.44.090 prohibits parking at any time on a named list of streets whenever signs are erected giving notice. The list includes Cedar Valley Road, Scriber Lake Road, the numbered avenues 36th, 44th, 48th, 50th, 52nd, 56th, 60th, 64th, 66th, 68th and 76th Avenue W, and the numbered streets 168th, 176th, 180th, 188th, 196th, 200th, 208th, 212th and 216th Street SW. The ban attaches to signs, so a driver who ignores a posted sign on one of those streets is in violation at any hour.
Section 11.44.101 is the mailbox rule. No one may park a motor vehicle on a roadway in front of a public or private mailbox, or within 10 feet of either side of it. The rule covers a single mailbox or a grouping of mailboxes, curbside or roadside, inside or outside a public right-of-way. It applies between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on days the United States Postal Service is scheduled to deliver mail. Council adopted it in 2023 through Ordinance 3442.
Other sections in the same chapter fill in the picture. Section 11.44.070 says the parking prohibitions apply at all times or at the times specified in the chapter or on official signs, except when a driver must stop to avoid conflict with other traffic or to follow a police officer or traffic-control device. Section 11.44.085 makes it unlawful to park any vehicle, trailer or motorcycle on a street without a current vehicle license and displayed plates with current tabs, as Chapter 46.16 RCW requires. Section 11.44.105 lets the city traffic engineer designate no-parking, no-stopping or no-standing zones up to 300 feet long where safety or spillover parking is the reason. Section 11.44.065 separately bars parking in city-owned garages and lots where signs prohibit it.
Chapter 11.48 adds a permit-only program for residential blocks affected by a parking generator such as a transit center, apartment complex or high school. More than 50 percent of the properties on the block must agree, and the traffic engineer's determination is final and not appealable.
Violations & Fines
Under LMC 11.44.140(A), doing an act this chapter prohibits is a traffic infraction with a $30.00 penalty. An infraction prosecuted under Chapter 11.18 LMC carries a $112.00 fine, and that figure rises automatically if Washington raises the state fine. Under 11.44.140(B), the court adds a $25.00 penalty for failing to respond to the notice of infraction or to pay on time. Permit-only block violations are also $30.00 and expose the vehicle to towing and impound.
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