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Employee Parking

Parking for Downtown Employees

If you are a Downtown employee, BID asks that you do NOT park at the prime metered parking spaces in the heart of Downtown while working. These spaces should be for customers, not employees.

Consider riding a bike to work, walking, or taking the Main Ave Trolley or the City buses. All buses are FREE in summer, and only cost $1 per ride in other months. Riders can also get a monthly pass for only $30 a month or $1 per day.

If you have to drive to work, the most affordable way to park Downtown is to purchase a monthly pass for any of the four City lots Downtown. These passes cost only $20 (less than $1 per day). The three lots on E. 2nd Ave fill up quickly each workday morning, but the Transit Center lot ALWAYS has available spaces. NEW - these $20 passes are now transferable among employees and also allow parking at 91 meters around the edges of Downtown. Click HERE for a map of all the parking spaces with this new permit.

The City also sells a parking permit for ANY metered space on Narrow Gauge Avenue for $75 per month. NEW - all-day passes for the Transit Center are now available for only $5 and are good Monday to Friday from 8 am to 5 pm.

If you have to drive and park at a meter, do not park at a meter on Main Avenue or on a cross street in front of your shop or your neighbor's shop. Instead, park off Main where it is cheaper. Look for the 10 hour meters on the edges of Downtown. Save the prime parking for customers of our Downtown businesses. See the City's website for the location of the 10 hour meters. Many of the 10 hour meters only cost 50 cents an hour! These meters are located on the 1300 block of Main, both sides of 13th Street just north of Buckley Park; 7th, 8th and 9th Streets between Narrow Gauge and Camino del Rio; and the 400 block of E. 2nd Ave.

The parking meters only need to be paid Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm. Weeknights afer 6 pm and all day on weekends are free. Again, please save the prime spaces for customers.

The City parking lots are also free after 5 pm on weekdays and all day on weekends.