Marysville, WA Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum street setback
- 15 feet for storage areas
- Screen fence height
- 6 feet, solid/sight-obscuring
- Landscape buffer option
- 5-foot L1 visual screen
- Enforcing chapter
- MMC 22C.120, Landscaping and Screening
Summary
Marysville requires dumpsters and other trash/recycling collection areas to be screened from view of neighbors and the street, with storage kept at least 15 feet from any street lot line.
Screening and impact abatement is required where necessary to reduce the impact of service, storage, loading and trash areas. All garbage collection, dumpsters, recycling areas, loading and outdoor storage or activity areas ... shall be screened from view of persons on adjacent properties and properties that are located across a street or alley. ... A six-foot-high solid masonry wall or sight-obscuring fence five feet inside the property line with an L2 buffer ...; and Storage areas are not allowed within 15 feet of a street lot line.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4922912; v1 updated 2026-06-08; through 06-08-2026).
Full Breakdown
Under Marysville Municipal Code § 22C.120.160, garbage collection and dumpster areas citywide must be screened from view of adjacent properties and properties across a street or alley. Screening options include a five-foot-wide L1 landscape screen, or a six-foot-high solid masonry wall or sight-obscuring fence set five feet inside the property line with an L2 landscape buffer between the fence and the property line. Storage areas, which includes dumpster and trash collection areas, are barred outright within 15 feet of a street lot line. This is the citywide screening standard referenced throughout Marysville's residential, commercial and industrial zone chapters; specific development types (e.g., downtown master plan projects, cottage housing) layer additional enclosure requirements, masonry or brick walls, paved pads, on top of this baseline.
Violations & Fines
Community Development enforces through site plan review and building permits; an unscreened or too-close dumpster area is a code violation subject to correction as a condition of permit approval or through code enforcement.
Frequently Asked Questions
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