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How to Live Car-Free at UNC Chapel Hill: Transit, Parking Permits and Where to Live

Living car-free at UNC-Chapel Hill works because Chapel Hill Transit is fare-free and campus daytime parking is not guaranteed to anyone. Student permits are lottery-assigned, and first-year students are shut out except by hardship exception. A Zone Student permit costs $405 for the academic year, the RR Estes Drive lot costs $260, and the bus costs nothing.