Parking Permits

The city currently has two types of parking permits, 24 hours/7 days a week and 7:00 A.M-7:00 P.M and various areas of the city are designated as parking permit areas and require a valid parking permit. 

Designation Process

A specified area may be requested through a petition signed by residents living in at least 66% of the residential units in the proposed specified area and the director of public works verifies that the petition contains signatures from a sufficient number of qualified people. Once the request has been made and submitted by the resident petition process, the director of public works must conduct various surveys and studies that are deemed necessary to determine whether the area should be designated as a parking permit area and must report their findings to the city council. 

A specified area must consist of at least one parking block and in the absence of an intersecting street or highway the city council can determine the length of a parking block which usually cannot be less than 750 feet. For parking blocks that are smaller than 750 feet the city council may but is not required to approve the parking block if it can find based on evidence provided by residents or the director of public works that a smaller parking block is desirable to protect public health and safety and that a smaller parking block will not unfairly interfere with on-street parking serving other nearby properties. Before residents may present a petition they must notify all affected residents and provide the director of public works with sufficient evidence to demonstrate that all affected residents have been notified.  

In addition, the city council may designate specified areas by resolution based on the following findings: vehicles owned or operated by non-residents regularly interfere with the use of the majority of available public street or alley parking spaces in the proposed specified area by adjacent residents, interference by non-resident vehicles occurs in the proposed specified area at regular and significant daily or weekly intervals and there is a shortage of reasonably available and convenient residential and related parking spaces within the proposed specified area.  

Application Process

Every person applying for a parking permit must file an application with the director of public works containing the following information: the name, address and phone number of the registered owner and applicant of designated vehicles, the license number, make and model of the designated vehicle, signature of applicant, and any further information requested by the director of public works. There is a permit parking review fee of $2,923.00. The permit parking review fee must be paid at permit parking application submittal.

Issuing Parking Permits

The director of public works must issue a parking permit if the application was completed in accordance to the city's municipal code and if there are no grounds for denying the permit. A parking permit is valid for the current fiscal year starting on July 1 and ending on June 30 of the following year. When the permit expires the applicant may apply and be issued additional parking permits if the applicant still qualifies under the conditions listed in the municipal code. 

Applicants that require more than four permits for a residence may be granted additional permits by the director of public works upon showing that there are more than four vehicles registered at the residence and that sufficient off street parking is not available to the resident.  Residents may also receive temporary residential parking permits for use by their guests at no cost. A resident may obtain a temporary parking permit for any of the following holidays: New Year's Day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Lincoln's Birthday, President's Day, Cesar Chavez Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve Day. In addition, a resident may obtain permits for three non-holiday days per year and the use of a temporary permit may not exceed 24 hours. Also, a maximum of 15 temporary residential parking permits may be used per day for each residence and each permit must have the date, street name, and name of the person approving the permit. 

For more information on the parking permit process please contact Public Works at 626-307-1320. Permit parking map