Nanny Parking Permit
GGMG moms asked how to get a parking permit in San Francisco for a nanny, and this is what GGMG moms suggested in 2005.
  • We were able to get a parking permit for our nanny. We filled out the paperwork, attached a note explaining that she was our childcare provider and enclosed a copy of her registration with her license number and we got it within a few weeks.
  • I was able to get one by first talking with our pediatrician about whether he¹d be willing to sign an affidavit that our nannies would be providing "medical care". Since our healthy 3 month old son wouldn¹t be able to survive on his own without care, I think that the doctor justified it in his own mind and said that he¹d be willing to sign it. (You have to get a permit for a specific car, so you can¹t just have an extra permit.)
  • We just had our pediatrician sign the medical caregiver form and were able to get a parking permit for our nanny with no questions asked.
  • We went through this same exact problem when we lived in the city a year ago. So what I ended up doing was this, when we it came time to renew our parking permits, we did and it came in the mail and using Windex or 409 ( I can't remember which) we sprayed it on the permit and wiped away the black marker with our license plate number and wrote in our nannies. It worked out perfectly. I drove to work so I didn't need a permit during the day. There was a period of 6 weeks that I didn't know what I was going to do, so I got her a temporary permit ( you can get them for 6 or 8 weeks or something like that) I think it's a visitors permit. You have to go into the parking office but it worked out fine. Obviously wiping the number off the permit isn't on the up and up, but we didn't feel we had any other choice.
  • This will be useful to you only if you have a curbcut: Someone parked in your driveway (on the street) will not get ticketed if they don't have a permit. Not sure whether this is formal policy, but it seems to work for my nanny.
  • Information on Residential Permits here, including an online application for a residential permit. You can also review parking tickets or pay them online via San Francisco’s online services.