D.C. Mun. Regs. tit. 24, § 225
225.1 The following schedule of fees shall apply to public space permits:
Description of Permit
Permit Fee
(a) Administrative:
Application Fee (New or Renewal)(Public Utilities Exempt) $ 50.00
(b) Temporary Occupancy:
(1) Residential Moving Trucks
(2 days maximum) $ 34.00
(2) Man Hole Access (each
occurrence) $ 85.00
(3) Man Hole Access (Annual
Permit) $2,585.00
(4) Ladders and scaffolding: Permit Fee
Per Month
Ladders and scaffolding placed in public space on public
sidewalks, alleys or at commercial properties (see § 225.2 of this
title) $ 50.00
(5) Receptacles for construction
debris (e.g., Dumpsters TM)
placed in public space in
areas zoned CR, C-1
through C-5, CM, M, SP-1
and SP-2, and W-1 through
W-3: Permit Fee
Per Month
$ 75.00
$100.00
$150.00
Months 1, 2, & 3
Months 4 & 5
Month 6 or more
(6) Receptacles for construction
debris (e.g., Dumpsters TM) Permit Fee
Per Month
placed in public space in areas zoned R-1 through R-5: Months
1, 2, & 3 $ 75.00
$125.00
Months 4 & 5 $200.00
Month 6 or more $ 50.00
Other Temporary Occupancy
(c) Fair Market Component of
Permit Fee for Temporary Occupancy in Excess of Thirty (30) Calendar Days as applied to paragraphs (d) through (k) of this subsection (Public Utilities Exempt):
(1) Public Space Use Fee (Central Business District):
Parking Lane
1st Travel Lane
2nd Travel Lane and Each Add'l
Alley
Sidewalk
Fee/Sq-Ft/Day
Fee established for prohibiting parking in DCMR Title 18 Section 2407.20 and 2407.21
$ 0.040
$ 0.080
$ 0.020
$ 0.030
(2) Public Space Use Fee (Other than Central Business District):
Parking Lane
1st Travel Lane
2nd Travel Lane and Each Add'l
Alley
Sidewalk
Fee/Sq-Ft/Day
Fee established for prohibiting parking in DCMR Title 18 Section 2407.20 and 2407.21
$ 0.030
$ 0.060
$ 0.015
$ 0.020
(d) Fixture(s) and Paving (in Parking):
Fence
Fence w/Brick Piers
Retaining Wall
Planter Box (each)
Coping
Steps
Over-Height Fence or Wall
Minor Repair of Fence, Wall or Paving
Minor Paving (less than 150 sq ft)
Permit Fee For First Thirty (30) Calendar Days
(Additional Time May Require Fair Market Component)
$ 50.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$135.00
$ 50.00
$ 75.00
(e) Fixture(s) and Paving (other):
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
(Additional Time
May Require Fair
Market Component)
Pay Phone (each)
Street Furniture
Raised Planter Box(s) on Sidewalk
Moveable Planter Box(s) on Sidewalk
Bollards
Sign(s)
Canopy Sockets
Minor Paving (less than 150 sq ft)
Repair/Replace Existing Driveway
Close Existing Driveway
New Residential Driveway
New Commercial Driveway
New Circular Driveway
Sidewalk Paving (up to 300 linear ft)
Curb & Gutter (up to 300 linear ft)
Alley Paving/Roadway Paving (up to 300 linear ft)
Resurface Roadway (up to 300 linear ft)
Subsurface Fuel Tank (each - new or replacement)
Other Fixture(s) or paving in public space
$ 75.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$135.00
$ 75.00
$250.00
$135.00
(f) Building Projections:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
(Additional Time
May Require
Fair Market
Component)
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$135.00
Porches & Steps (each)
Areaway (each)
Window Well (each)
Bay Window (each)
Projections Requiring Exception from Building Code (See 12A-3202.4) (each)
(g) Grading:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Roadways, sidewalks and alleys
Calendar Days
(Additional Time
May Require
Fair Market
Component)
$ .00
(h) Trees and Landscaping:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
Additional Time
May Require
Fair Market
Component
$ 0.00
$ 100.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 75.00
$ 50.00
Public Space Tree(s) (plant)
Public Space Tree(s) (remove)
Hedge(s) (plant)
Other Landscaping (Commercial)
Street Tree (s) (pruning)
Tree Space (s) (Not part of sidewalk paving permit)
Tree Fence (s)
(i) Minor Excavation:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
Additional Time
May Require
Fair Market
Component
$ 50.00
$ 20.00
$ 135.00
$ 20.00
$ 50.00
$ 85.00
Test Pits, Boring & Cores (single)
Test Pits, Boring & Cores (Each Add'l)
Monitor Wells (single)
Monitor Wells (Each Add'l)
Conduit Relocation (up to 10 linear Ft)
Other Minor Excavation (up to 100 sq ft and not requiring
sheeting & shoring)
House Service (each premise)
Water/Fire Connection/Abandonment/Repair - up to 2 inch
pipe size
Water Meter Pit and associated Pipe up to 2 inches
Gas Connection/Abandonment/Repair
Electric Connection/Abandonment/Repair
Communication Connection/Abandonment/Repair
Sanitary Sewer Connection/Abandonment/Repair - up to 4 inch
pipe size
Storm Sewer Connection/Abandonment/Repair - up to 4 inch
pipe size
$ 50.00
$ 50.00
$ 50.00
$ 50.00
$ 50.00
$ 50.00
$ 85.00
$ 85.00
(j) Minor Excavation:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
(Additional Time
Regulator Stations, above and below ground, and associated
appurtenances installation or removal (each)
May Require
Fair Market
Component)
$135.00
$ 85.00
Washington Gas and Light - System Monitoring/Telemetric
Equipment installation or removal (each)
$85.00
Washington Gas and Light - Non-Emergency maintenance
related excavations such as for cathotic protection activities,
encapsulations, other 0 & M activities (each)
Gas Service Connection/Abandonment/Repair (each)
$85.00
Electric Service Connection/Abandonment/Repair only
$85.00
Electric Service Connection/Abandonment/Repair and
associated Manhole and Conduit (each)
$135.00
Transformer Vault and associated Manhole and Conduit (each)
$250.00
Water/Fire Connection/Abandonment/Repair (each - over 2 inch
pipe size)
$85.00
Water Meter Manhole and associated piping(each)
$135.00
Fire Hydrant Installation/Repair/Removal (each)
$85.00
Sanitary/Storm Sewer Connection/Abandonment/Repair (each -
over 4 inch pipe size)
$135.00
Sanitary/Storm Sewer Manhole (each)
$135.00
Communication Manhole (each)
$135.00
Utility or Communication Excavation for Pipe, Conduit or Cable
(each 200 linear feet or portion thereof)
$135.00
Sheeting and Shoring (each 100 linear feet or portion thereof))
$135.00
Abandonment or Removal of Subsurface Fuel Tank or Vault
(each)
$135.00
(k) Overhead
Electrical/Communication:
Permit Fee
For First Thirty
(30)
Calendar Days
(Additional Time
May Require Fair
Market Component)
Install/Remove/Replace Overhead
Market Component)
Electrical/Communication Wire
Up to 300 linear feet
Each additional 300 linear feet or portion thereof
$ 50.00
$ 20.00
Install/Remove/Replace Utility/Communication Pole with or
without Guy Wire
First Pole
Each Additional Pole
$ 50.00
$ 20.00
Install/Remove/Replace Guy Wire for Utility/Communication
Pole
First Guy Wire
Each Additional Guy Wire
$ 50.00
$ 20.00
(l) Moving Overweight, Over-length,
or Over-width equipment
(excluding permits issued to the
federal
Permit Fee
$ 30.00
$ 50.00
government):
Single Trip (each)
Round Trip (each)
(m) Miscellaneous:
Permit Fee
Per Month
$ 50.00
All miscellaneous permits primarily benefitting the applicant
(n) Inspect Fee:
Fee per Hour
$ 50.00/hr
Additional fee for any needed inspection of paving, repairing or
altering of public space
(o) Public Space Abutting Business
(see § 201.1 of this title):
One-Time Permit
Fee
$139.00
Use of public space by operators of abutting businesses
(p) Steel Plates:
Permit Fee
Public space covered by 1-4 steel plate(s) at any time
between and including January 1 and March 31 and
between and including November 1 and December 31
$600.00 per plate
for the first 5 days
in public space
$900.00 per plate
for the first 5-day
renewal period
$1350.00 per plate
for the second and
all subsequent 5-
day renewal
periods
Public space covered by 1-4 steel plate(s) at all other times.
$300.00 per plate per 5 days in public space
$450.00 per plate for the first 5-day renewal period
$675.00 per plate for the second and all subsequent 5-day renewal periods
Public space covered by an additional 1-4 steel plate(s) at any time between and including January 1 and March 31 and between and including November 1 and December 31
$1200.00 per additional plate per 5 days in public space
$1800.00 per additional plate for the first 5-day renewal period
$2700.00 per additional plate for the second and all subsequent 5-day renewal periods
Public space covered by additional 1-4 steel plate(s) at all other times
$600.00 per additional plate per 5 days in public space
$900.00 per additional plate for the first 5-day renewal period
$1350.00 per additional plate for the second and all subsequent 5-day renewal periods
Public space covered by more than 8 steel plate(s) at any time between and including January 1 and March 31 and between and including November 1 and December 31
$1800.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate per 5 days in public space
$2700.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate for the first 5-day renewal period
$4050.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate for the second and all subsequent 5-day renewal periods
Public space covered by more than 8 steel plate(s) at all other times
$900.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate per 5 days in public space
$1350.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate for the first 5-day renewal period
$2025.00 for the 9th and subsequent plate for the second and all subsequent 5-day renewal periods
Use of public space for buses that park, as that term is defined in 18 DCMR § 9901, at a designated location in public space on a regular schedule to pick up and drop off passengers
Annual fee of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) multiplied by the total number of hours per week permitted for occupancy further multiplied by fifty-two (52)
225.2 Ladders and scaffolding placed in residential areas located on unpaved parking, shall not require a permit.
225.3 A refund of public space permit fees shall be made as follows:
(a) When no work has been done under authority of permit, the fee in excess of the cost of inspection to verify no work having been done, based on thirteen dollars per inspector hour ($13.00/hr.), the cost of any engineering examination time previously devoted to approval of plans, based on twenty dollars per hour ($20.00/hr.), plus nineteen dollars ($19.00) administrative costs of "issuance and refund," shall be refunded at nineteen dollars per hour ($19.00/hr.); or
(b) When work authorized by permit has been only partially done and when the District is satisfied that no more work will be done under the permit, the fee in excess of the cost of any engineering plans examination based on twenty dollars per hour ($20.00/hr.), cost of inspections made based on thirteen dollars per hour ($ 13.00/hr.), plus nineteen dollars ($19.00) administrative costs of "issuance and refund," shall be refunded at nineteen dollars per hours ($19.00/ hr.); or
(c) If a request for refund is made within six (6) months from date of issuance and the permit and receipt are returned to the Permit Branch.
225.4 The penalty for a permit to abate notice of doing work without a permit shall be fifty percent (50%) of the fee.
225.5 Waiver of permit fees pertaining to all public space permits except those issued to the public utility companies. No permit fee shall be charged for the following:
(a) Work done exclusively for the District government;
(b) Changes in existing structures made at the request of the District Government; or
(c) Work done exclusively for agencies of the United States Government.
225.6 No permit fee shall be charged to a public utility, as that term is defined in Section 2 of the Underground Facilities Protection Act of 1980, effective March 4, 1981 (DC Law 3-129, DC Official Code § 34-2701), for the following:
225.7 The fees collected pursuant to this section are proceeds collected by the District for the rental of public space and shall be deposited in the Department of Transportation Unified Fund, as provided in paragraph 9c(c)(4) of the Department of Transportation Establishment Act of 2002, effective May 21, 2002 (D.C. Law 14-137; D.C. Official Code § 50-921.11(c)(4)).
225.8 Beginning on October 1, 2010, there shall be imposed a non-refundable technology fee on each public space permit. The technology fee shall be equal to ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the public space permit fee.
SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 27 DCR 3326, 3330 (August 1, 1980); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 35 DCR 6744 (September 9, 1988); Final Rulemaking published at 54 DCR 2832 (March 30, 2007); Final Rulemaking published at 56 DCR 1725 (February 20, 2009); and Final Rulemaking published at 56 DCR 1813 (February 27, 2009); as amended by Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Support Act of 2010, effective September 24, 2010 (D.C. Law 18-223), published at 57 DCR 6242, 6364-6366 (July 23, 2010).