Street parking restriction in effect across Mississauga; offenders could be fined $150

UPDATE: The city-wide street parking restriction was lifted at 10 p.m. on Tuesday night, according to City of Mississauga officials. (Original story below)

Mississauga residents are reminded they cannot park on the street on Tuesday as snowplows work to clear the roads across the city.

City of Mississauga officials said a city-wide winter parking restriction took effect at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, meaning all street parking (including for those with temporary and monthly permits) is suspended until further notice, except in areas where street signs “explicitly permit parking.”

Streets and sidewalks — and for the first time, windrows — are being cleared across Mississauga in the wake of the latest snowfall, which dropped 10 centimetres of snow at Toronto Pearson Airport in Mississauga overnight and Tuesday morning.

City officials also remind people that a new fine of $150 will be dished out to those who park on the street, against the rules, during Mississauga-wide parking restrictions.

For updates on the current parking restriction, follow Mississauga Snow on X, subscribe to city-wide winter parking restriction alerts or call 311.

A citywide winter parking restriction is in effect as of 7:30 a.m. on December 23, 2025. All street parking (including temporary and monthly permits) is suspended, except in areas where street signage explicitly permits parking, until further notice.

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Mississauga city council approved the new $150 fines for winter parking offences back in October as part of an updated plan to deal with obstructions to winter snow-clearing efforts.

The city looked to such enforcement measures in response to a growing number of parked vehicles in recent winters that block the path of snowplows, thereby hindering snow-clearing efforts of road maintenance crews during and after significant snowfalls.

Add to that the city’s plan this winter to clear windrows — the difficult-to-move piles of hard-packed snow and ice — from all homes across the city (some 134,000 driveways) and it becomes even more critical to find new ways to discourage on-street parking when the snow flies, city officials said earlier.

Previously, there were very few, if any, restrictions in Canada’s seventh-largest city that effectively discouraged people from leaving their cars on the street and in the way of snowplows.

In looking at more than a dozen other southern Ontario municipalities, city staff earlier determined all of them “have implemented some form of winter parking restriction, which includes parking restrictions when a winter event is declared” and fines ranging from $30 to $150 for initial infractions.

Brampton, Burlington, Guelph, Hamilton, London, Markham, Milton, Oakville, Oshawa, Ottawa, Richmond Hill, Toronto and Vaughan were the municipalities Mississauga staff studied in reaching their conclusions.

“On-street parking presents a significant challenge to winter maintenance activities, particularly during plowing operations, which are typically triggered when the city receives five centimetres or more of snow accumulation,” Sam Rogers, the city’s commissioner of transportation and works, said in an earlier report. “The large equipment required for snow clearing cannot safely maneuver around parked vehicles, and in many cases the space left between vehicles parked on opposite sides of the street is too narrow for plows to pass through. This results in safety issues, operational inefficiencies, increased costs, time delays and uncleared roadways.”

While cars that remain parked on the street during snowstorms are subject to the new fine, vehicles parked on lower driveways, which also potentially obstruct snow-clearing efforts, are not. However, the city adds, if those vehicles are in the way of plows and other equipment, windrows and sidewalks at those locations will not be cleared by city crews.

(Graphic: City of Mississauga)