Navigating UCLA Parking: A Guide to Yellow Permits and Exemptions
UCLA's parking system can seem complex, especially for students, employees, and visitors. This article provides a comprehensive overview of UCLA's parking policies, focusing on Yellow Permits and the exemption process.
Understanding UCLA Yellow Permits
Generally, UCLA employees eligible for parking receive Yellow (Non-Reserved) Permits. These permits are valid for specifically assigned parking areas. It is important to note that permits are only available online through the Bruin ePermit Portal.
Saving Money on Parking
UCLA offers several options to save money on commuting to campus:
- Carpooling: Zimride helps you find one-time rides or create/join a carpool with fellow Bruins.
- Bruin Commuter Club (BCC): Commuting by public transit, bicycle, carpool, vanpool, or by foot may make you eligible to join the BCC.
Parking Exemptions for Students
Students with extenuating circumstances that necessitate having a car on campus may apply for a parking exemption. Exemption requests must be submitted each quarter, with the exception of Summer, by the quarterly application deadline. Exemption offers are considered on a case-by-case basis, are dependent upon available parking allocations, and are not guaranteed.
Student parking exemption requests for Winter 2026 are no longer being accepted.
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How to Apply for a Student Parking Exemption:
- Log in to the Bruin ePermit Portal.
- Click on "Special Permit Requests”.
- Select “Dorm/Student Exempt Request”.
- Specify in the “notes” section the criteria for your exemption.
- Attach required documentation.
Important Note: Altering any documentation (ePermits, receipts, third party receipts, student exemption parking forms/requests, etc.) from its original form may result in loss of parking for up to four (4) years and/or result in a referral to the Dean of Students for violating the student code of conduct.
Exemption Reason Criteria and Required Documentation:
Child Care:
- Criteria: Applicant must be a legal parent or guardian. The child must be newborn-12 years of age, currently attending out-of-home school or day care, or have special needs.
- Required Documentation:
- Birth certificate, legal documentation, or letter of live birth
- Verification of enrollment in school, day care, etc.
Illness of Family Member:
- Criteria: Applicant must be an eligible care provider for a spouse, child, or parent/legal guardian who has a serious health condition.
- Required Documentation:
- Completed Certificate for Illness of Family Member's Serious Health Condition form
- Declaration of Relationship
- One or more of the supporting documents listed on the form to confirm family relationship.
A new and up-to-date Certificate for Illness of Family Member's Serious Health Condition form is required every academic quarter for those without a lifelong or permanent condition. Those with a lifelong or permanent condition will be required to submit a new and updated Certificate for Illness of Family Member's Serious Health Condition form annually.
Not Accepted: Care directive, medical records, hospital admission and discharge papers, medical appointment schedules, doctor’s letter or prescription note, x-rays, third party letter, disabled placard, supplemental security income, or state supplement payment.
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Recent Death:
- Criteria: Applicant must have a recent death of parent/legal guardian, spouse, child, grandparent, aunt or uncle within the previous or current quarter. This exemption is only granted for one quarter.
- Required Documentation: Death certificate
Academic Need/Professional School:
- Criteria: Applicant must provide original documentation of internship required as part of a curriculum, late admission, or re-enrollment after withdrawing.
- Required Documentation: One of the following:
- Signed Course Contract
- Program/Internship verification and letter from UCLA department confirming internship is part of class curriculum
- Late admission offer letter or re-enrollment after withdrawing
Hilgard Graduate Housing:
- Criteria: Applicants must have a contract with UCLA graduate housing and have applied for parking.
- Required Documentation: Letter of parking waitlist
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- Criteria:
- Commuter students are ineligible
- Job locations in 90024 and 90095 do not qualify
- Application must have a local*, verifiable**, current***, and regularly scheduled off-campus job or paid internship within the last two calendar months.
- *Must drive to an off-campus work site
- **Not paid via cash only
- ***Within the last two calendar months
- Required Documentation:
- A 1099-MISC or a dated letter from your employer on company letterhead* verifying your employment status, date of hire, work address (street, city, state, and zip code) and pay duration, and
- One of the following:
- Two recent paystubs dated within the last two calendar months from exemption submission date.
- Bank statement verifying two recent direct deposits within the last two calendar months from exemption submission date.
- Two recent company-canceled checks** (front and back copy is required) dated within the last two calendar months from exemption submission date.
- *A new, up-to-date letter is required every academic quarter.
- **Canceled checks are checks that have been paid by the bank they are drawn on. After the money is deducted the bank will cancel the check, so it can no longer be used and is marked as processed by the bank.
- And a letter on letterhead from their training facility confirming the training facility’s offsite address and frequency of how often they train.
- Criteria:
Note: Parking exemption requests submitted due to missed parking application deadline or missed payment deadline will not be considered. Exemptions remain confidential and all supporting documentation will be destroyed at the end of each quarter.
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Other Parking Permit Options
- Campus Volunteers: Volunteers who provide uncompensated services to UCLA, and who are on campus no more than two (2) times per week and no more than four (4) hours each visit, are eligible to purchase a Volunteer permit. If a volunteer is on campus more than four hours, two days a week, a full-fee permit should be purchased for them.
- Clinical Faculty: Clinical faculty who provide uncompensated services to UCLA and who are on campus no more than two (2) times per week for no more than four (4) hours each visit are eligible for courtesy parking. Clinical faculty who are compensated must purchase a full-fee employee parking permit on a quarterly or annual basis.
- ASUCLA Vendors: Contact the ASUCLA Human Resources Department at (310) 825-7055.
- Consultants/Contractors: Consultants and contractors hired through outside agencies (i.e., those who are not on UCLA payroll) are not eligible for the staff parking rate. If allotted by their department, these employees may purchase short-term or quarterly parking permits for the duration of their job assignment.
- Visitors: All UCLA visitors can purchase a daily pass from a pay station, the ParkMobile app or the Bruin ePermit portal. Visitors can also purchase a quarterly Night Permit through the Bruin ePermit system, valid Monday through Friday, all day on weekends and University holidays in select lots. This permit is issued/renewed on a quarterly basis and can be purchased after creating an account on the Bruin ePermit portal.
- UCLA Alumni Association Sustaining Donors: UCLA Alumni Association Sustaining Donors who have given $10,000 or more annually to the UCLA Alumni Association Support Fund are eligible to purchase V Gold or V Blue parking permits. For detailed information on these permits, explore the parking privileges document.
- Emeriti/Retirees: New Emeriti/Retirees should contact the Emeriti Retiree Relations Center at (310) 825-7456 in order to determine your permit eligibility.
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