The City of Bayonne is always looking for ways to improve the parking situation in our community. As the current administration worked towards improving the City’s financial status, we committed to jumpstarting the residential development of numerous long dormant and often contaminated commercial properties. For the most part, the development of the new residential buildings was contingent upon the developers ensuring that they provided adequate on-site parking for occupants of these buildings.

In order to ensure that all residents in these newly developed buildings park in their own parking lots, the City restricted them from getting residential parking permits. Recently, however, we have come to realize that since our residential zone parking enforcement ends at the end of the business day, many of the residents of these buildings were parking their cars on our streets at night. Those who are doing so are actually in violation of our city ordinance, and they are taking valuable parking spots away from residents who have no available private parking. As such, Mayor Davis has directed the Public Safety Director and Parking Utility to begin 24-hour enforcement of our residential parking regulations, which specifically restrict any car without a residential parking permit from parking in a designated restricted parking zone for more than three hours.

Beginning on Monday, May 12, 2025, the City’s Parking Enforcement Officers will begin enforcing our Residential Zone parking ordinance 24 hours a day. For the first month, we will advise our Parking Enforcement Officers to issue Warning Notices to those who are violating the ordinance by parking overnight on the street without a permit. This will permit residents to be familiarized with the new enforcement procedures. At the conclusion of this familiarization period, however, beginning on Monday, June 16, 2025, the 24-hour Residential Parking Permit regulations will be enforced, and Parking Enforcement Officers will begin issuing actual tickets to violators. These tickets will include the appropriate fines and, in certain circumstances, may require an appearance in Municipal Court.