The Boulder City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved adding and expanding parking restrictions in five neighborhoods as part of the Neighborhood Parking Program.

The new areas will include restrictions on long-term street parking to just two or three hours for the general public, and will require nearby residents, businesses and commuters to purchase permits from the city for longer-term parking.

"I think it works well," said Deputy Mayor Crystal Gray, who lives in such an enforcement zone.

The plan expands parking restrictions in three areas -- Goss Grove, Columbine and University Hill -- and creates two other zones along west Pearl Street and the East Ridge/Pennsylvania neighborhood.

Residents can buy full-time parking permits for the affected streets at a cost of $17 per year. Business permits cost $75, and commuter permits are $312 annually.

New restrictions will include the east side of the 1700 block of 17th Street, the 2200 block of Mariposa Avenue, the 900 block of 10th Street, the 900 block of Lincoln Place and the 700 block of 17th Street.

New enforcement zones along west Pearl Street, generally from Fourth Street to Eighth Street, and along Spruce Street from Fourth Street to Fifth Street, also are included. Public parking in the affected Pearl Street areas will be limited to three hours at a time during weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Another new zone, in the East Ridge/Pennsylvania neighborhood, will run from the 28th Street Frontage Road to 30th Street along Pennsylvania.