On Street Parking Meters/Holiday Enforcement/Payments/Broken Meters
The City of Rochester has 1,346 on-street parking meters.
Meters are enforced on weekdays from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. except for the following holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day.
Payment can be made using coins, the ParkMobile app, or by credit card in select areas. For more information about on street parking meters, visit our On Street Parking Meters Webpage
Changes for 2025 include:
Rates will go down for parking ramp stays less than 4.5 hours
Rates will increase for parking ramp stays more than 4.5 hours
All downtown meters will become 3-hour meters priced at $2 per hour
Meters on the edge of downtown will not have time limits.
Parking fees are fully detailed in the City’s Fee Schedule.
Monthly parking rates and residential permit parking rates are not changing.
Broken/Malfunctioning Parking Meters
Information about how to report a malfunction is printed on all parking meters in the City. If a meter is not operating correctly, please notify the City at the time you first park and discover the malfunction. Call 507-328-2311 and be prepared to provide the specific meter number (NOT the zone number), a description of the issue, and your license plate number.
If you already loaded money into the meter, you may remain parked for the duration of the meter time limit. A parking technician will be dispatched to check on the meter, and if a malfunction is noted, any ticket issued to you will be voided. Tickets issued as the result of an unreported meter malfunction cannot be voided. Falsely reporting a broken meter will not result in ticket dismissal.
Please note that issues with reloading additional time in excess of the posted time limits on a parking meter is not a malfunction. City ordinance requires you move your vehicle at least one block after the time limit on a meter expires.
02/2025