Yakima County, WA Parking Rules: Street Parking Limits (2026)

570, enforced on county roads by the sheriff's office and the Washington State Patrol. Subsection (1)(a) forbids stopping, standing or parking on the roadway side of another parked vehicle, on a sidewalk or planting strip, inside an intersection, on a crosswalk, in the gap between roadways of a divided highway, or wherever official signs prohibit stopping. Subsection (1)(b) adds a second tier of no-standing zones measured by distance: in front of a public or private driveway or within five feet of the curb radius leading to it, within 15 feet of a fire hydrant, within 20 feet of a crosswalk, within 30 feet of the approach to a stop sign, yield sign or traffic signal, and within 20 feet of a fire station driveway (75 feet on the opposite side of the street).

The statute carves out one exception: a county may, by resolution, let a residential property owner park across their own driveway's point of ingress or egress if the driveway is no longer than 50 feet and the parked vehicle does not block a sidewalk, another driveway or the roadway. Subsection (2) confirms that any additional time limit or parking restriction beyond these fixed zones must come from a county resolution, not from this statute itself. Subsection (4) separately bars reserving a portion of a highway for one person's exclusive parking use.

020 designates offenses against traffic and parking statutes, including parking, standing, and stopping offenses, as civil traffic infractions rather than crimes, so a ticket here is resolved through Yakima County District Court's infraction process rather than a criminal case.