Add a Permit Area

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How to establish a residential permit area in your neighborhood

To extend an already existing area:

The proposed block(s) must be contiguous to an existing residential permit parking area.

A petition signed by more than fifty percent of the households on each proposed block must be submitted to the Transportation Engineering a subdivision of Sustainable Streets (one signature per household). Blank petition forms can be obtained from the Municipal Transportation Agency's Transportation Engineering at One South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor, or by downloading it here:
Blank petition form - English (PDF)
Blank petition form - Spanish (PDF)

At least eighty percent of the legal on-street parking spaces within the proposed area are occupied during the day.

Residents on a metered block may petition to have their addresses be included as part of a residential permit parking area; however, a petition for an unmetered block must also be submitted at the same time. This requirement is designed to increase the overall number of permit parking spaces in the area, making it feasible to allow addresses on a metered block to be included as part of a residential permit parking area. Existing meters will not be removed and replaced with residential permit parking signs.

To establish a new permit area in your neighborhood:

The proposed block(s) must be contiguous to each other and must contain a minimum of one mile of street frontage.

A petition signed by at least 250 households in the proposed area must be submitted to Transportation Engineering (one signature per household). Blank petition forms can be obtained from the Municipal Transportation Agency's Transportation Engineering at One South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor.

At least fifty percent of the vehicles parked on the street in the proposed area must be non-resident vehicles.

At least eighty percent of the legal on-street parking spaces within the proposed area are occupied during the day.

The legislation and sign installation process takes approximately three months from submittal of valid petitions for area extensions and six months from submittal of valid petitions for new areas. The process is as follows:

1. Review by the Traffic Engineering Division
2. Field study conducted
3. Review by the Interdepartmental Staff Committee on Traffic and Transportation (ISCOTT)
4. Departmental Public Hearing
5. Review by the SFMTA Board of Directors
6. Sign installation and permit issuance

Enlarged Detailed RPP maps (PDF) click for enlarged image (download time may be long)

For questions regarding extending or establishing an RPP area:

By mail:

SFMTA Sustainable Streets Division
One South Van Ness Avenue, 7th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103

By phone:
415.701.4688

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