What purpose would a city have for prohibiting parking in a residential area during certain hours?

It might be to keep people who live in their vehicles from sleeping in residential neighborhoods, something that the homeowners could agree is a good thing. Just a guess. It might also be so that people don't leave disabled vehicles on the street. Having that 2am to 5am restriction is a good way to accomplish either of those scenarios.

In my neighborhood, there is a No Parking between 9am and noon on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month on 1 side of the street (for street cleaning) and No Parking on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays between 9am and noon on the other side of the street (to clean the other side of the street).

Each municipality has its own rules for its own reasons; ask your representative what the City's reasoning is as it applies to residential streets and explain your situation: I know that some cities have residential Parking decals that neighborhood residents stick inside their windshields, which allows those citizens to park the way that YOU need to, but keeps non-neighborhood people from clogging YOUR streets. In DC, for example, each neighborhood has a particular Designation Number which Parking Authority/Police can see and thereby not give a 'legal park-er' a ticket.

As far as 2am to 5am street cleaning and garbage collection is concerned, most municipalities have noise ordinances that would prevent such activity, usually between 10pm and 6am, at least in purely residential areas, or some variant of those times.

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God, I hope you don't breed. Look, if they're having sex in the bushes then they should be escorted out, although I highly doubt this is actually happening. Straight people have no more integrity than gays, and because of public hatred (and the fact that most gays are great people), straights are more likely to be having sex in the park, anyway.

Provides some assurance to residents that they'll be able to park near their homes. There may also be snow removal, street cleaning, etc. in those hours.

Is it a seasonal law? Sometimes in snow areas that law is in effect during the snow months, but not the rest of the year.

Good luck. Maybe you can use a neighbors space?

Maybe it's just to keep your neighborhood from looking like a used car lot every night.

Run for office and change it.