First and Second-year Residential Student Parking Permit Prohibition

UC Santa Cruz has parking permit prohibition for first and second-year residential students who live in any on-campus or off-campus University Housing facility. The parking permit prohibition applies to all types of campus parking permits except motorcycle permits, and includes temporary daily, weekly and monthly permits.

All students may buy a MC Motorcycle permit at any time.

All students can buy a temporary campus-parking permit during the following periods in 2012-13:

• Early Fall (9/22/12 through 9/28/12)

• Winter Break (12/14/12 through 1/4/13)

• Spring Break (3/22/13 through 3/31/13)

• After Memorial Day; excluding Commencement (5/27/13 through 6/13/13)

To be eligible to purchase campus parking permits students must be a:

• junior or senior status student (with 90 or more units), including those who live in University housing.

• commuting student that does not live in University housing (includes freshmen and sophomore students as long as they don't live in a University housing facility).

• disabled student that qualifies for a disability-related parking accommodation.

On rare occasions first and second-year residential students may be granted a parking exception by the Parking Review Panel. The following reasons are considered for a parking exception:

• economic need when a student must rely on income from a job not served by public transportation.

• academic need including off-campus classes, research, or field study not served by public transportation.

• family need, i.e. continuing care of a sick or disabled immediate family member.

• when a student has frequent medical/dental appointments whose location is not served by public transportation.

Learn how a residential first or second-year student can appeal for a parking exception.

Learn about off-campus parking options.

Learn how students can get around using Zimride (UCSC rideshare community) and Zipcar, our carsharing program.