Residents love calling your multifamily community home, but the parking situation? Not so much. Overcrowded lots, unauthorized vehicles, and residents parking in each other’s assigned spots are all too familiar. Fortunately, smart parking permits offer a seamless solution to these challenges.
With Parking Boss, you can choose from flexible options tailored to your needs. Our team can help you implement license plate recognition (LPR) technology or equip residents with durable, tamper-resistant Smart Decals™ for quick and reliable vehicle validation. These tools provide secure, hard-to-forge parking credentials and track violations to help you manage repeat offenders effectively.
Here’s how smart parking permits can transform your community’s parking experience for the better.
1. Enhance Community Security
Smart parking permits make it easy to strike a balance between resident convenience and robust security. With Parking Boss, you can register guest vehicles to grant temporary access while keeping your parking area exclusive. Each unit can receive a unique parking access code for their visitors, ensuring only authorized vehicles enter and fostering a safer environment for everyone.
Choose a gate access system to verify permits, have patrols ensure all vehicles display valid permits, or combine both for maximum control. Parking Boss also provides an in-field database to look up vehicles, log violations, and issue Smart Warning stickers, clearly signaling to violators that your community is vigilant and secure.
2. Prevent Guest Parking Overload
When long-term guests or nearby business visitors congest your parking area, smart parking permits provide an effective solution. Implement time restrictions, such as limited hours, days, or overnight stays per vehicle or unit, to maintain order and availability.
During peak times, consider introducing paid parking permits. With Parking Boss, you can offer guests a set amount of free parking time and establish clear hourly, daily, or overnight rates for extended use, ensuring your community’s parking remains well-managed and resident-friendly.
3. Limit Excess Resident Vehicles
In urban apartment communities, limited parking spaces can create frustration when residents and guests compete for spots. While gate access codes and remote controls help keep unauthorized vehicles out, they don’t stop residents from adding extra cars to an already tight lot.
Smart parking permits allow you to set and enforce vehicle limits, ensuring fair access for everyone. To manage overcrowded parking, consider capping the number of permits per unit or offering one to two free permits per household while charging for additional vehicles, such as extra cars or motorcycles. This approach maintains order and prioritizes equitable parking for your community.
4. Track & Address Repeat Parking Offenders
Traditional paper permits made it challenging to identify repeat parking violators. During patrols, distinguishing between a first-time offense warranting a warning and a chronic issue requiring stronger action was nearly impossible. Smart parking permits resolve this issue by maintaining a detailed record of past violations, which is accessible whenever needed.
With Parking Boss’s Smart Decals™ and license plate-based permits, every rule violation is logged during patrols. Patrollers can instantly check a vehicle’s violation history and issue an appropriate warning sticker. This system empowers your community to identify repeat offenders, enforce rules consistently, and gather evidence for towing when necessary.
5. Generate Revenue from Guest Parking
In cities where parking is scarce, your multifamily community can turn this challenge into an opportunity, especially if located near bustling businesses or event venues.
By charging guests for extended parking time when they apply for a permit, you can create a new revenue stream. These funds can offset enforcement costs, such as towing, or support general community expenses, enhancing your property’s amenities and financial flexibility.
Smart Parking Solutions from Parking Boss
Parking Boss offers flexible, cutting-edge solutions to streamline your community’s parking management. For resident permits, our Smart Decal™ system is a top choice. These tamper-resistant, weather-durable stickers attach easily to vehicles for fast, reliable parking validation. Equipped with scannable QR codes, Smart Decals™ allow your patrol team to quickly confirm vehicles are in their assigned spaces. Available in six distinct colors, they can differentiate between permit types, such as covered versus uncovered spaces or standard versus reserved spots.
Prefer a no-sticker approach? Our License Plate Recognition (LPR) system uses vehicle license plates as permit IDs. In addition, equip your patrollers with our smartphone LPR tool for efficient, on-the-go validation.
The Parking Boss team is committed to helping you establish a well-organized and stress-free parking environment. Ready to transform your community’s parking? Request a Parking Boss demo today!
