New Brunswick, NJ Parking Rules: Preferential Parking Districts (2026)

Chapter 10.28 turns designated residential blocks into permit-only parking. Under § 10.28.010, no vehicles are parked on the streets or parts of streets designated in Schedule 41 during the hours designated in the schedule, unless the vehicle is owned or operated on a regular basis by a resident of that street and registered through the digital procedures of the New Brunswick Parking Authority, or falls under an exemption in § 10.28.020. Schedule 41 states that the restriction is effective twenty-four (24) hours a day Monday through Friday. Its listed streets include 4th Street through 9th Street between Joyce Kilmer Avenue and Livingston Avenue, Alexander Street from French Street to Somerset Street, and Baldwin Street from Paul Robeson Boulevard to Nichol Avenue, each on both sides.

The exemptions in § 10.28.020 cover a bona fide guest of a residence in the permit area who has a current visitor permit, contractors, service and delivery vehicles bearing the name and address of a commercial business while they render service to a residence there, and emergency vehicles and public service, telephone and other public utility vehicles while rendering service or repairs.

A street enters the program only after the city business administrator or designee finds, from an engineering or traffic study, that nonresident vehicles exceed twenty-five (25) percent of the spaces and that occupied spaces exceed sixty-five (65) percent of the total on weekdays of any month (§ 10.28.030). The recommendation then goes to city council.

Section 10.28.040 sets the permit limits. Residents receive a permanent permit valid for up to a year for tenants and three years for owner-occupants, with two permits per dwelling unit and three when all three vehicles are registered to that address. Visitor permits are capped at two per structure, plus one more for an owner-occupied multi-family structure, each valid for one year. Businesses claiming undue hardship are limited to thirty-three (33) percent of off-street spaces or fifty (50) percent of employees. A permit does not excuse other traffic rules such as stop sign, intersection and alternate side restrictions (§ 10.28.060), and a five-resident advisory committee reports on or before July 1 each year (§ 10.28.080).