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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF EMERGENCY AND PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority set forth in sections 5(3)(D) (allocating and regulating on-street parking) and 6(b) (transferring to the Department the parking management function previously delegated to the Department of Public Works under section III (H) of Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1983) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.04(3)(D) and 50-921.05(b) (2009 Repl. & 2012 Supp.)), and coupled with the signed approval of the Director of the District Department of Public Works, as required in D.C. Official Code § 50-921.04(3)(D); and sections 2(l)(1) and 2(m)(1) of the Residential Permit Parking Regulation Amendment Act of 1984, effective March 16, 1985 (D.C. Law 5-185; 18 DCMR §§ 2414.1 and 2415.1), hereby gives notice of the intent to adopt the following rulemaking to amend Title 18, “Vehicles and Traffic,” of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR). The amendments will revise Chapter 24, “Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations.”
The emergency and proposed rules will allow the Director to issue a District-wide visitor parking permit pilot program to households eligible for a residential permit parking sticker.
This emergency rulemaking is necessitated by the immediate need to address the threat to the public welfare posed by an abrupt and substantial change arising from the expiration of previous visitor parking programs. District residents and their visitors rely on visitor parking passes issued by DDOT in RPP zones for a variety of needs that may include nurse care, child care, and other medical purposes. The emergency rulemaking will enable DDOT to coordinate with the District Department of Public Works, Metropolitan Police Department, and the Department of Motor Vehicles to safely and efficiently transition to the new visitor parking rules in the least disruptive manner possible, avoiding unnecessary enforcement and impositions placed on the public.
This emergency rule was adopted on July 26, 2012, and became effective immediately. This emergency rule will remain in effect until November 23, 2012, one hundred twenty (120) days from the date it became effective, unless earlier superseded by a notice of final rulemaking.
Final rulemaking action shall not be taken in less than thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this notice in the D.C. Register.
Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the DCMR is amended as follows:
Chapter 24 (Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations) is amended as follows:
Section 2414 is amended as follows:
Three new subsections 2414.9 through 2414.11 are added to read as follows:
2414.9 Subject to the availability of funds, the Director shall implement a visitor parking pilot program within all residential parking permit areas in the District.
2414.10 The Director may phase in the District-wide visitor parking pilot program referenced in section 2414.9, beginning with those areas that are participating in a current visitor parking pilot program or have participated in a previous visitor parking pilot program.
2414.11 The visitor parking pilot program listed in subsection 2414.9 shall expire September 30, 2013. Any visitor parking pilot permits issued prior to September 30, 2013 shall expire on September 30, 2013.
Any person interested in commenting on the subject matter in this proposed rulemaking action
may file comments in writing, not later than thirty (30) days after publication of this notice in the
D.C. Register, with Sam Zimbabwe, Associate Director, PPSA, District Department of
Transportation, 55 M Street, SE, 5th Floor, Washington, DC 20003. Comments may also be sent
electronically to Policy.DDOT@dc.gov. Additional copies of this proposal are available, at cost,
by writing to the above address, and are available electronically, at no cost, on the Department’s
website at www.ddot.dc.gov.
