Westminster, CA Parking Rules: Preferential Parking Districts (2026)

290 authorizes permit parking to be established and installed under the city council's permit parking program policy, which sets the procedures for creating a district meant to mitigate parking intrusion from outside sources into residential neighborhoods. Each individual district must be adopted by its own separate council resolution rather than a single citywide designation, letting the council tailor boundaries, exemptions and permit rules street by street. Once a district exists, no person may park in it without a duly authorized permit unless the vehicle falls under an exemption written into that district's resolution; the section does not itself list universal exemptions, leaving that detail to each district's adopting resolution.

030, which lets the city traffic engineer maintain restricted areas with signs or curb paint, but a permit district specifically targets the volume of non-resident parking rather than a hazard or engineering concern. 260, both of which continue to apply inside a permit district unless a resolution says otherwise.