Resident permit zones in Montréal, explained

Guide · Checked against the City's pages on November 11, 2026

You've spotted a residents-only sign and you don't have a sticker. Here's what a residents-only zone is, how its sign reads, and what the City of Montréal says a visitor can do.

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What a permit zone is

The City calls them residents-only parking zones: zones reserved for residents who hold a parking sticker (a vignette). In French you'll also see SRRR, short for stationnement sur rue réservé aux résidents.

Residents-only stickers are available everywhere in Montréal except Montréal-Nord. A sticker lets its holder park in a defined area around their home, not anywhere in the city.

Each borough sets its own rates and its own rules for using the sticker. So one borough's rules don't tell you the next borough's.

How the sign reads

The City's open sign data lists every residents-only panel with its hours. In the City's sign data, as we counted it on November 11, 2026, the Plateau-Mont-Royal is the borough with the most of these panels, and the most common one there is recorded as \P 9h-23h EXCEPTE S3R: no parking from 9 h to 23 h, except for vehicles with the sticker for that sector. Some zones are reserved at all times, recorded as \P (EN TOUT TEMPS) EXCEPTE S3R, and others use other hours.

The zone panel may share its pole with others. The City's rule is that parking is allowed as long as you follow the restrictions shown on the signs, so the other panels, like street cleaning, still apply. Prohibition periods also apply on public holidays.

More on reading a full pole: how to read a Montréal parking sign.

Who can get a sticker

In most boroughs, the City's page asks that you be the primary driver of the vehicle and that your home be in a residents-only zone. Check your own borough's section on that page: vehicle types, the number of stickers per address and the documents all vary.

A resident sticker usually has to be renewed every year. It also has to be replaced if you move to another zone or borough, change vehicles, or lose it.

What a visitor can do

It depends on the borough. The City lists these options:

• One-day stickers: Lachine, LaSalle, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and Outremont.
• One-month stickers: Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Le Sud-Ouest, L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève and Outremont.
• Parking that residents can offer their guests: Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, LaSalle, Outremont, Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Saint-Léonard.

Paid parking is the other option. It generally applies on arterial roads and commercial streets, and the Agence de mobilité durable's maps, linked from the City's site, show the hourly rates.

Want a zone on your street?

The procedure varies from one borough to another. You may be asked for a petition signed by residents of your street, and the borough may survey residents or hold a public consultation. The City says the process may take several months.

Where Panoui! fits

Panoui! reads the City of Montréal's open data on permanent parking signs and shows each known curb in the colour of the rule in force: green, park. Red, don't. Blue, pay. Yellow, for permit holders. Tap a curb for the rule in plain words and when it changes. Panoui! shows the rule, not whether a space is empty. The posted sign always wins, so give it one last look before you leave your car.

Questions drivers ask

What does SRRR mean in Montréal?

It is short for stationnement sur rue réservé aux résidents: street parking reserved for residents who hold a parking sticker.

Can a visitor park in a resident permit zone?

It depends on the borough. The City lists one-day stickers in Lachine, LaSalle, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal and Outremont, and one-month stickers in Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Le Sud-Ouest, L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève and Outremont.

Can I get a resident sticker anywhere in Montréal?

Residents-only stickers are available everywhere in Montréal except Montréal-Nord. Each borough sets its own rates and rules.

Next: parking in the Plateau-Mont-Royal, parking in Mile End.