Parking Options

The DDA provides a diversity of parking options to meet downtown's ever-changing needs. Public parking is conveniently located throughout the downtown and is very easy to access. Moreover, well over 50 downtown businesses validate parking for their customers, making it possible to park for free in the center of the action, near world-class restaurants and retail shops, extraordinary museums, galleries, and concerts, and a host of other attractions.

Parking Information Includes:

 

 

Parking Rates

Parking rates in effect May 1, 2007: A number of rate changes are meant to encourage the best use of downtown parking facilities, directing long-term parking into structures and leaving surface lots and metered parking for higher turnover, short-term parking:

  • Hourly parking, structures: $0.80/hour.
  • Hourly parking, attended lots: $1.00/hour for the first three hours, $1.10/hour for subsequent hours. (Increase by $0.05/half hour.)
  • Hourly parking, automated lots: $1.00/hour for the first three hours, $1.10/hour for subsequent hours. (Increase by $0.05/half hour.)
  • Hourly parking at meters: $1.00/hour.
  • Monthly permits, structures: $125/month
  • Monthly permits, lots: $105/month
  • Premium monthly permits: $175/month

Monthly permits and $2 evening entry to Liberty Square will remain unchanged.

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Parking Meters

Parking meters are located on most downtown streets, and include 30 minute, 1 hour and 2 hour meters. There are also 9 metered lots located around downtown. Cost: $1.00/hour, Monday through Saturday, 8am-6pm. Free on evenings, Sundays and all federal holidays observed by City employees: New Year's Eve Day (after 12 p.m.), New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday (after 12 p.m.), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, Christmas Eve Day (after 12 p.m.), and Christmas Day. Patrons can use coins at the meters and they can also purchase a stored value card Republic Parking's main office on the first floor of the Maynard Parking Structure . Theres stored value cards can be used at any public parking meter, there is a $10 deposit and cards can be refilled.

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Hourly Parking

Hourly parking is available at metered parking lots throughout downtown, as well as on attended lots and parking structures. Cost: $0.80/hour, in all parking structures; $1.00/hour in the attended parking lots each of the first three hours, $1.10/hour thereafter. Free parking in attended lots and parking structures is available on Sundays and the following major federal holidays only: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Please note, this list differs from the free parking days allowed at parking meters in lots and on the street.

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Monthly Parking Permits

Monthly parking permits are available in the parking structures and provide 24 hour/day access throughout the month for $125/month. A limited number of premium monthly parking permits are available as well, at a cost of $175/month. Premium spaces are set aside in convenient ground-floor locations. Please note that there is currently a waiting list for monthly permits. Call (734) 997-1310 for more information.

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Limited Use Permit

Limited Use Permit Downtown residents and others who need parking in off hours are welcome to contact the DDA for a Limited Use Permit. This permit provides parking after 4pm and before 9am in most downtown parking structures. The cost for this permit is $30/month. For more information, please contact the DDA office at (734) 997-1310.

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Motorcycle/Moped Scooter Parking

Motorcycle and moped scooter parking is currently available free of charge in designated  areas throughout the DDA District and The UofM Campus. Locations include: in the Fourth and William structure (off the Fourth Avenue entrance), in the Maynard Structure (off Thompson St. entrance), in Forest structure (off of Forest) and in the Ann and Ashley structure (off of Ashley St). See the map below for additional parking options. Where available, moped spaces are equipped with eyebolts, which can be used for securing the scooter.  For more information please call Joe Morehouse at (734) 994-6697.

>> Moped and Motorcycle Parking Options Map

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Disability Resources

All are welcome in downtown Ann Arbor! If you need parking for the disabled, please reference this map for available locations.  All parking structures have barrier free elevators and all parking lots and curb side parking are near sloped entries to sidewalks.

All AATA buses are equipped with either lifts, ramps, or kneelers. Your driver will assist you in using one of these boarding aids. For more information about AATA services and routes, visit www.aata.org or call (734) 996-0400.

Additional information can be found on the City of Ann Arbor's Disability Resources page.

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Metered Lots

Parking meters are located on most downtown streets, and include 30 minute, 1 hour and 2 hour meters. Cost: $1.00/hour, Monday through Saturday, 8am-6pm. Free on evenings, Sundays and all federal holidays observed by City employees: New Year's Eve Day (after 12 p.m.), New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents Day, Good Friday (after 12 p.m.), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day and the following Friday, Christmas Eve Day (after 12 p.m.), and Christmas Day.

  • 325 Depot St. - 35 spaces
  • Broadway Bridge Lot - 18 spaces, 2 handicap
  • City Hall - 33 spaces, 2 handicap
  • Community High - 83 spaces, 4 handicap (open to public on weekends only, weekdays in summer when school is out)
  • Farmer's Market - 75 spaces, 3 handicap (closed on market days: Wednesdays and Saturdays, April - December; Saturdays only, January - April)
  • Fourth & Catherine - 49 spaces, 3 handicap
  • Kerrytown - 25 spaces, 1 handicap (closed on market days: Wednesdays and Saturdays, April - December;Saturdays only, January - April)
  • Main & Ann - 46 spaces, 2 handicap
  • Main & William - 23 spaces, 1 handicap
  • Liberty Square Structure - 34 metered spaces in parking structure
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Attended Lots

Rates: $1.00/hour for first three hours, $1.10/hour beyond third hour.

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Automated Lots

Rates: $1.00/hour for first three hours, $1.10/hour beyond third hour.

 

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Parking Lots with Monthly Parking Permits
Several parking lots offer monthly permits. Costs and locations are as follows:

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Parking Structures and Monthly Parking Permits

Rates: $0.80/hour. Monthly permits available for some structures, $125/month. Premium monthly permits available at Ann & Ashley, Fourth & William, and Maynard Structures, $175/month. Call (734) 997-1310 for more information.

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Additional Information

Additional Information about where the metered lots, attended lots, parking structures are located, and where monthly parking permits are available.

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For information on residential parking permits, parking tickets, and towing, please see the City of Ann Arbor Public Services page.

 


Need help with downtown parking?
Questions about hours of operation?
Let us know so we can help.
For Parking Permit information call (734) 997-1310

for all other information, contact the DDA at: (734) 994-6697 or dda@a2dda.org

 

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“A good plaza starts at the street corner. If it’s a busy corner, it has a brisk social life of its own. People will not just be waiting there for the light to change. Some will be fixed in conversation; others, in some phase of a prolonged goodbye. If there’s a vendor at the corner, people with cluster around him, and there will be considerable two-way traffic back and forth between plaza and corner.”

William Whyte

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150 S. Fifth Avenue, Suite 301
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Phone: (734) 994-6697
Fax: (734) 997-1491
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