Portsmouth has converted its on-street parking from pay and display to pay by plate. For details, click here.

Taxpayers do not pay a penny for any parking related expenses, including the new Foundry Place Garage. The City’s Parking Division is fully funded by parking revenues. In fact, parking revenues offset the City’s tax bill by over $4 million ($2.4M in direct contribution and $1.8M in additional services) -- which reduces the tax bill for most households (a savings of approximately $300 per year for the median value household). For more information, click here.

On December 16, the City Council voted to allow free parking at all downtown, on-street parking meters from Tuesday, December 17th through Thursday, December 26th. While parking is free for these 10 days, time limits and any snow parking bans will still be enforced.

In anticipation of the need for plowing city streets as the current snowstorm winds down, a parking ban starts going into effect starting at 8 pm. Parking ban on downtown streets starting at 1 am. Please click here for details on which streets are affected at what time. Residents are reminded they can park in the Foundry Place Garage for the flat rate of $3 or the High Hanover Garage for the flat rate of $5, starting at 8 pm.