2437.1 Notwithstanding the notice requirements in §§ 6 and 10 of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act, approved October 21, 1968 (82 Stat 1204; D.C. Official Code §§ 2-505 and 2-509 (2016 Repl.)), the Director may re-designate residential permit parking (“RPP”) blocks as resident-only parking blocks if all of the following criteria are met:

1. (a) An Advisory Neighborhood Commission (“ANC”) passes a resolution petitioning DDOT to designate all or a portion of the blocks participating in the RPP program within that ANC, or specific Single Member Districts within the ANC as resident-only parking blocks;
2. (b) At least one (1) year has passed between the date on which the majority of blocks in the ANC were designated as RPP blocks and the date of the resolution;
3. (c) The resolution lists at least five (5) blocks within the ANC as being impacted by increased parking demands and requiring additional parking restrictions; and
4. (d) The standards set forth in § 2437.2 are satisfied.

2437.2 After receiving a petition from an ANC requesting resident-only parking, the Director may modify the RPP restrictions on any blocks participating in the RPP program within the ANC if all of the following conditions are met:

1. (a) There is a major traffic generator within or abutting the ANC;
2. (b) The parking needs, in excess of two (2) hours, of visitors to any place of worship, healthcare facility, school, park, or recreational facility within the ANC are considered according to the following criteria:
3. (1) More than seventy-five percent (75%) of parking demand from the place of worship, healthcare facility, school, park, or recreational facility is unmet by off-street parking; and
4. (2) The place of worship, healthcare facility, school, park, or recreational facility does not require parking for more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the requested hours and days during which RPP restrictions would apply;
5. (c) Based on at least three (3) distinct observations of the five (5) or more blocks

listed in the ANC petition required by § 2437.1 during any weekday between 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., the motor vehicles parked on the block occupy at least eighty-five percent (85%) of the parking spaces; and

(d) Based on at least three (3) distinct observations during any weekday between 7:00 a.m. and 8:30 p.m., at least fifty percent (50%) of the motor vehicles parked within the five (5) or more blocks listed in the ANC petition required by § 2437.1 are not registered in that RPP zone.

(e) The Director may, at his or her discretion, modify the observation hours described in § 2437.2(c) and (d).

2437.3 Notwithstanding § 2437.2, the Director shall determine whether a block abutting a place of worship, healthcare facility, school, park, or recreational facility shall be included in the resident-only parking zone. This determination shall be made based on the existing parking supply and the demand for parking for the place of worship, healthcare facility, school, park, or recreational facility, as well as the residential parking demand in adjacent blocks.

2437.4 Pursuant to § 2437.1, resident-only parking restrictions shall be applied to all blocks participating in the RPP program within an ANC; provided, that no more than one side of the street in each residential block, as determined by the Director, shall be designated with resident-only parking restrictions.

2437.5 Prior to taking action on the ANC petition, DDOT shall publish a Notice of Intent on the DDOT website.

2437.6 DDOT will evaluate petitions received by ANCs twice during a calendar year.

2437.7 An Advisory Neighborhood Commission may, pursuant to a resolution passed by the ANC, petition DDOT to redesignate all or a portion of the blocks participating in the resident-only program within that ANC, back to RPP blocks.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 66 DCR 10565 (August 16, 2019).