Revere to switch to digital resident parking permits and add license-plate readers in 2025

Revere will move from physical resident parking stickers to digital permits tied to vehicle license plates and begin a pilot of mobile automatic license-plate recognition (ALPR), parking officials told the Revere City Council on Jan. 27.

Zach Bogle, the city’s parking director, said the digital permits will take effect March 1, 2025, and will allow license plates to serve as resident and visitor permits instead of windshield stickers. “No longer will you have a sticker on your windshield,” Bogle said. He told the council the change will be accompanied by ALPR cameras mounted on parking fleet vehicles to speed enforcement and to integrate with police systems for stolen-vehicle alerts.

The changes matter because they alter how residents prove eligibility for overnight and neighborhood parking and how the city enforces visitor-pass limits. Bogle said the city issues roughly 29,000–30,000 resident and visitor passes per year and estimated the cost to fulfill a permit will fall from about $3.50 to $1 per permit after the switch. He also said mobile ALPR will reduce the time it takes parking staff to patrol the city from “upwards of a week”…