Boise, ID Parking Rules: Preferential Parking Districts (2026)

Boise City Code section 6-10A-21, part of Title 6, Chapter 10, Article A (adopted by Ordinance 41-17 in 2017), lets the Parking Services Office designate any area of the City as a Residential Parking District (RPD) or Special Parking District (SPD), acting on a resident's recommendation or its own initiative. Before any designation takes effect the Office must hold a public hearing, publishing notice in a newspaper of general circulation and mailing written notification to every property in the affected area at least ten days before the hearing date.

After the hearing, the Office may send the Boise City Council a written recommendation identifying the proposed area and the reasons for it; once the Council ratifies the designation, the Office erects signs marking the zone as an RPD or SPD permit area and posts the enforced days, hours and time limits. Under subsection E the Office also sets the specific permit requirements and any sub-areas, such as loading zones, that need tighter restrictions. Section 6-10A-22 governs who qualifies for a permit: applicants must meet the general permit requirements in section 6-10B-7 and additionally prove residency inside the RPD or SPD, which can include vehicle registration to an address in the zone.

The Office must create temporary visitor permits for bona fide guests and may cap the number of resident permits, visitor permits, and total permits per household or per zone, charging a nonrefundable fee on the City Clerk's fee schedule; permits are nontransferable. Section 6-10A-23 adds that a vehicle displaying an RPD permit must park within two blocks of the address on the permit application, and any vehicle without a valid permit must leave the block face, or the SPD boundary, once the posted time limit expires for the rest of that calendar day.

Section 6-10A-24 makes it unlawful to overstay the posted limit without a permit, to fail to move a nonpermitted vehicle as required, to park outside the two-block radius on an RPD permit, or to use a permit in a zone it was not issued for.