diff --git a/iot/api-client/manager/manager_test.py b/iot/api-client/manager/manager_test.py
index 7565967c1d1..55504a5a7da 100644
--- a/iot/api-client/manager/manager_test.py
+++ b/iot/api-client/manager/manager_test.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 from google.cloud import pubsub
 import pytest
+
 import manager
 
 cloud_region = 'us-central1'
diff --git a/language/cloud-client/v1/snippets.py b/language/cloud-client/v1/snippets.py
index e13fc7dd6c8..2b754ace7ac 100644
--- a/language/cloud-client/v1/snippets.py
+++ b/language/cloud-client/v1/snippets.py
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 from google.cloud import language
 from google.cloud.language import enums
 from google.cloud.language import types
-
 import six
 
 
diff --git a/nox.py b/nox.py
index 915acea98d1..216321f1bec 100644
--- a/nox.py
+++ b/nox.py
@@ -135,10 +135,15 @@ def _setup_appengine_sdk(session):
 
 PYTEST_COMMON_ARGS = []
 
+# Ignore I202 "Additional newline in a section of imports." to accommodate
+# region tags in import blocks. Since we specify an explicit ignore, we also
+# have to explicitly ignore the list of default ignores:
+# `E121,E123,E126,E226,E24,E704,W503,W504` as shown by `flake8 --help`.
 FLAKE8_COMMON_ARGS = [
     '--show-source', '--builtin', 'gettext', '--max-complexity', '20',
     '--import-order-style', 'google',
     '--exclude', '.nox,.cache,env,lib,generated_pb2,*_pb2.py,*_pb2_grpc.py',
+    '--ignore=E121,E123,E126,E226,E24,E704,W503,W504,I202',
 ]