Fullerton, CA Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

daily unless the section's exceptions or a posted notice says otherwise. Ten categories of vehicles are automatically exempt, including ambulances and law-enforcement or Fire Department vehicles, vehicles on a documented emergency call, physicians or surgeons responding to an emergency, utility repair vehicles responding to damaged electrical, plumbing, lighting or communication facilities, and vehicles displaying a DMV disabled placard or plate parked at a blue curb or stall. Two permit paths exist for everyone else. A select-street exemption removes an entire block, or one side of it, from the ban through a property-owner petition verified against County Assessor records, a Transportation and Circulation Commission recommendation and a City Council resolution; it is meant for areas with an off-street parking deficiency under the zoning code's minimum parking standards.

A temporary exemption permit, granted at the Police Department's sole discretion for short-term deficiencies such as visitors or driveway construction, runs in daily increments up to 30 days, while a hardship exemption permit for a family's changing parking needs runs in one-year increments, also at the Police Department's discretion. Fees for both permit types are fixed by separate City Council resolution rather than in the ordinance itself.