Wauwatosa, WI Parking Rules: Overnight Parking (2026)

, except as the section itself provides. The police department can grant telephonic all-night parking permission, at a cost set in the consolidated fee schedule, when the owner or operator cannot park off the street because they are a guest of a resident with no available on-premises parking, because the vehicle is disabled, or because the resident's own driveway is obstructed. Guest permission granted for lack of on-premises parking is capped at fifteen days per vehicle per year; the police department may extend it for up to another fifteen days if the same guest is still visiting the same premises past the first period.

Separately, the engineering and operations administrator can issue a waiver tag to a resident living on a street that is planned for or under construction; the tag is valid only while that construction is actually blocking the resident's driveway approach, must show the resident's name, the vehicle's license number, and the anticipated construction dates, and must be displayed in the lower right-hand corner of the windshield (or another conspicuous spot the administrator designates) while the vehicle sits overnight. The city must notify residents likely to lose driveway or garage access to a construction program that waiver tags are available, and the tag itself is issued at no charge. window specifically inside the city's municipal parking lots.