Parking Tips

The City of St. Augustine strives to provide safe parking opportunities through the enforcement of various parking ordinances and statutes. These ordinances and statutes involve:

  • Commercial delivery zones
  • Disabled parking
  • Expired meters to overtime parking
  • Improper parking
  • Prohibited parking
  • Yellow curbs

Review the following tips to help in avoiding a parking ticket. Always look at parking signs, even in metered areas, as rules and restrictions vary by locations.

Pay-Station Parking

  • Find a parking space before you 'feed' the pay-station. Look around you for a central pay-station and ensure that it is a city meter, with the City Crest on it.
  • The City does not have individual meters at each space. For your convenience, we have placed multi-space pay stations that accept bills, coins, Visa, Discover, and MasterCard.
  • If a pay-station has malfunctioned use another one. 
  • Make sure to document your plate number as you will need it in order to 'Pay by Plate' at the pay-station.  

Yellow Curb

Yellow curbing is a traffic control device to remove parking in areas. No part of your vehicle can be parked next to or on a yellow curb.

Commercial Delivery

The City's commercial delivery zones are 24/7. 

Improper Parking

  • "Facing the Wrong Direction": On a two-way roadway, you must always park on the right side of the roadway with the flow of traffic. The City of St. Augustine has many one-way streets. Please be aware of one-way street signage.
  • No part of your vehicle can be parked on the sidewalk.
  • Make sure your vehicle is parked completely inside a parking space. No part of your vehicle can be on or outside of the lines.

Prohibited Parking

  • Handicap parking: The white lines that accompany a disabled parking space are for wheelchair accessibility. Parking on these lines will result in a ticket.
  • Resident Parking: Several streets limit parking to residents only. A "Resident Parking" sign means that you must have a residential permit to park there.

Handicapped Parking

Parking with a handicapped placard or handicapped license plate is free at any city-owned meter or pay-station (see the  "Pay Station / Metered Parking" section) and at the Historic Downtown Parking Facility.

When entering the Historic Downtown Parking Facility the person who owns the placard must be with you.

Other Things to Consider

  • Do not ignore your parking tickets or the mailed invoices.
  • Make sure to update your license plate registration with your local Department of Motor Vehicles each time you move. Updating your address on your driver's license does not necessarily mean that your address will be updated on your license plate registration.

For more information, call Customer Service at 904-825-1037 or send an email to Parking.