Residential parking

AN ACT Relating to providing additional parking flexibility in 1
residential neighborhoods; and amending RCW 46.61.570.2
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:3
Sec. 1. RCW 46.61.570 and 1977 ex.s. c 151 s 40 are each amended 4
to read as follows: 5
(1) Except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic, 6
or in compliance with law or the directions of a police officer or 7
official traffic control device, no person shall: 8
(a) Stop, stand, or park a vehicle: 9
(i) On the roadway side of any vehicle stopped or parked at the 10
edge or curb of a street; 11
(ii) On a sidewalk or street planting strip; 12
(iii) Within an intersection; 13
(iv) On a crosswalk; 14
(v) Between a safety zone and the adjacent curb or within 15
((thirty)) 30 feet of points on the curb immediately opposite the 16
ends of a safety zone, unless official signs or markings indicate a 17
different no-parking area opposite the ends of a safety zone;18
(vi) Alongside or opposite any street excavation or obstruction 19
when stopping, standing, or parking would obstruct traffic;20
H-0273.1
HOUSE BILL 1061
State of Washington 69th Legislature 2025 Regular Session
By Representatives Low and Jacobsen
Prefiled 12/13/24. Read first time 01/13/25. Referred to Committee
on Transportation.
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(vii) Upon any bridge or other elevated structure upon a highway 1
or within a highway tunnel; 2
(viii) On any railroad tracks; 3
(ix) In the area between roadways of a divided highway including 4
crossovers; or 5
(x) At any place where official signs prohibit stopping.6
(b) Stand or park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except 7
momentarily to pick up or discharge a passenger or passengers:8
(i) In front of a public or private driveway or within five feet 9
of the end of the curb radius leading thereto , except that a city or 10
county may, by ordinance or resolution, allow residential property 11
owners within their jurisdiction to park, or allow another to park, 12
across the point of ingress or egress of the driveway entering on to 13
the residential property, provided that such parking does not 14
obstruct a sidewalk, another driveway, or the roadway;15
(ii) Within ((fifteen)) 15 feet of a fire hydrant;16
(iii) Within ((twenty)) 20 feet of a crosswalk;17
(iv) Within ((thirty)) 30 feet upon the approach to any flashing 18
signal, stop sign, yield sign, or traffic control signal located at 19
the side of a roadway; 20
(v) Within ((twenty)) 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any 21
fire station and on the side of a street opposite the entrance to any 22
fire station within ((seventy-five)) 75 feet of said entrance when 23
properly signposted; or 24
(vi) At any place where official signs prohibit standing.25
(c) Park a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except temporarily 26
for the purpose of and while actually engaged in loading or unloading 27
property or passengers: 28
(i) Within ((fifty)) 50 feet of the nearest rail of a railroad 29
crossing; or 30
(ii) At any place where official signs prohibit parking.31
(2) Parking or standing shall be permitted in the manner provided 32
by law at all other places except a time limit may be imposed or 33
parking restricted at other places but such limitation and 34
restriction shall be by city ordinance or county resolution or order 35
of the secretary of transportation upon highways under their 36
respective jurisdictions. 37
(3) No person shall move a vehicle not lawfully under his or her 38
control into any such prohibited area or away from a curb such a 39
distance as is unlawful. 40
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(4) It shall be unlawful for any person to reserve or attempt to 1
reserve any portion of a highway for the purpose of stopping, 2
standing, or parking to the exclusion of any other like person, nor 3
shall any person be granted such right. 4
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