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DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
The Director of the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), pursuant to the authority in Sections 4(5)(A) (assigning authority to coordinate and manage public space permits and records to the Department Director), 5(3)(D)(i) and (iii) (allocating and regulating on-street parking), and 5(4)(A) (assigning duty to review and approve public space permit requests to the Department Director) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002 (“DDOT Establishment Act”), effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code §§ 50-921.03(5)(A), 50-921.04(3)(D)(i) and (iii), and 50-921.04(4)(A) (2009 Repl. & 2012 Supp.)); and Sections 6(a)(6) and 6(b), of the District of Columbia Traffic Act, approved March 3, 1925 (43 Stat. 1121; D.C. Official Code § 50-2201.03 (a)(6), and (b)(2009 Repl. & 2012 Supp.)), hereby gives notice of this proposed action to adopt rules that amend Chapter 24 (Stopping, Standing, Parking, and Other Non-Moving Violations) of Title 18 (Vehicles and Traffic) of the District of Columbia Municipal Regulations (DCMR).
The proposed regulations will consolidate all Visitor Parking Pass pilot programs into an annual Visitor Parking Pass program, and extend the program to all blocks zoned for Residential Permit Parking or Enhanced Residential Permit Parking in the District of Columbia. The proposed regulations will also maintain a 15-day visitor parking permit program administered by the Chief of Police and a 60-day temporary parking permit program administered by the District Department of Transportation for a resident’s medical necessity.
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, VISITOR OR TEMPORARY PERMITS, is amended to read as follows:
2414 VISITOR AND TEMPORARY PERMITS
2414.1 Except as provided in § 2424, the Chief of Police may issue visitor parking permits valid for periods up to fifteen (15) days to visitors at an address on a residential permit parking block.
2414.2 The Director may issue temporary parking permits, valid for periods up to sixty (60) days, for temporary use warranted by a resident’s medical necessity.
2414.3 The Director may issue an annual visitor parking permit to each household on a residential permit parking block in the District. One (1) permit may be issued to each eligible household.
2414.4 The annual visitor parking permit shall authorize a visitor to park a vehicle in an Advisory Neighborhood Commission parking zone designated on the permit for the same amount of time as a vehicle with a residential permit parking sticker. The Advisory Neighborhood Commission designated on the annual visitor parking permit shall be the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in which the resident applying for the annual visitor parking permit resides.
2414.5 In order to obtain an annual visitor parking permit from the Director, a resident from an eligible household shall:
(a) Submit an application, in a format provided by DDOT; and
(b) Provide proof of District residency.
2414.6 An annual visitor parking permit shall be mailed, upon approval, to the address on the application.
2414.7 Visitor parking permits shall be valid on commercial vehicles only while the operator of the vehicle is actually involved in the performance of construction, maintenance, repair, or reconstruction work at an address on a residential permit parking street.
2414.8 A visitor parking permit issued by the Chief of Police or a temporary parking permit issued by the Director may be issued for a zone even though the motor vehicle displays a residential permit parking sticker for another zone.
2414.9 Neither a visitor parking permit nor a temporary parking permit may be sold or otherwise exchanged, on a temporary or permanent basis, for anything of value.
2414.10 The forgery, counterfeiting, sale, exchange for value, or unauthorized use or replication of a visitor permit or temporary permit shall be punishable by a fine of three hundred dollars ($300).
2414.11 Any annual visitor parking permits issued prior to September 1, 2013 shall expire on October 31, 2013.
All persons interested in commenting on the subject matter in this proposed rulemaking may file comments in writing, not later than thirty (30) days after the publication of this notice in the D.C. Register, with Samuel D. Zimbabwe, Associate Director, District Department of Transportation, 55 M Street, S.E., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20003. An interested person may also send comments electronically to publicspace.policy@dc.gov. Copies of this proposed rulemaking are available, at cost, by writing to the above address, and are also available electronically, at no cost, on the District Department of Transportation’s website at www.ddot.dc.gov.
