About LegitPark

LegitPark answers one question — "can I park here, and for how long?" — for a specific spot in a US city, in plain language. It's a free, no-login tool built and run by an independent developer. Last updated: August 22, 2026.

Why it exists

Street-parking rules are scattered across sweeping schedules, meters, permit zones, colored curbs, and overnight ordinances — each published (if at all) in a different city dataset or buried in a municipal code. Drivers get tickets not because they're careless but because the rules are genuinely hard to find. LegitPark pulls those sources together and gives a single, honest verdict for the block you're standing on.

Where the data comes from

We build coverage only from data we can actually vouch for. Sources include:

Official city open data — e.g. SFMTA street-sweeping, meter, and regulation datasets via Socrata; San Diego's bulk sweeping and meter feeds; Denver, Seattle, San Jose and other cities' ArcGIS layers. This is the authoritative tier.
Public curb-rule layers — official government GIS such as the LADOT Red Curb layer and San Jose's colored-curb "curbfaces," used as an additive safety layer (it can add a restriction, never remove one).
OpenStreetMap (ODbL) — community-mapped on-street parking rules where local mappers have tagged them, used as a clearly-labeled community-grade fill where official data is silent.
Municipal codes — citywide ordinances (overnight-parking bans, 72-hour rules) extracted from a city's own published code, shown as a baseline where no block-level data exists.
Driver-scanned signs — photos submitted through "scan the sign," which we parse and store (with the block location) to improve coverage. These are always marked unverified and can never make a spot look safer than official data says.

How the verdict works

Every result is one of four states — not safe, pay or permit, safe with a limit, or no known restriction — never a blind "you're fine." Rules stack as layers (a meter and a sweeping schedule and an overnight ban can all apply), and the verdict reflects the most restrictive rule in effect right now. Every result also carries a "check the sign" line and lists what we don't know about that block.

The rules we hold ourselves to

The posted sign is the legal authority. LegitPark is guidance; the sign and local law always win. We never tell you a spot is safe in a way that overrides what's posted.
Only spots we can vouch for. Blocks with no data are shown as "no data — check the sign," not guessed.
Paid placements stay separate. Any affiliate link (a garage or car rental) never influences the free "safest spot" results, and is disclosed. See our Terms.
Honest about gaps. Coverage is strong in some cities and thin in others, colored-curb and loading-zone data is incomplete almost everywhere, and rules change block to block and over time. We say so rather than imply coverage we don't have.

Who's behind it

LegitPark is an independent project, not affiliated with any city or transit agency. Corrections and coverage requests are genuinely welcome — see Contact. If a block looks wrong, tell us the address and what the sign says and we'll fix it.