The proposal is overly broad, and will clearly have a negative impact on
neighborhoods near Metro, shopping, private schools, universities and employment
centers. Each ANC will be flooded with visitor permits, each of which can
be used for unlimited parking throughout the ANC, a mile or more from the
resident-host’s home. Even if the areas where the permits could be used were
more limited, there would still likely be problems in these areas, as
utilization of on-street parking is already at, near or over capacity, and homeowners
will need to seek parking even further from their homes. If it is determined
that the current system is not adequate or reasonable, it is necessary to
first define the problem what we want to solve. Then, a more targeted program
might be developed which provides a more limited permit that addresses the
specific concerns for which this pilot program was developed. But this proposal
is clearly not-ready-for-prime-time.
I hope that the ANCs and community groups can work with Ms. Cheh and DDOT to
develop an equitable proposal that will achieve the goals of this proposal
without harming our neighborhoods in Ward 3. I am confident that such a plan
could be developed if Ms. Cheh and DDOT are open to discussing modifications
of the pilot project.
Marilyn Simon

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We strongly favor the residential parking permit proposal.
There are lots of reasons born of personal experience.
The current rules prevent our regular housekeeper from parking in front of our house, requiring her to unload her cleaning equipment, then park elsewhere.
The current rules discourage family members who'd like to stay awhile. Our son actually had to pay a fine for the offense of staying at our house overnight!
And recently a neighbor living across the alley from our garage had their home extended. The construction crew, unable to park in front of the house, blocked the alley EVERY DAY with their trucks. Every time we had to drive out of our garage, we had to get the attention of the workers so they could move their truck out of the way. This went on for months.
A temporary permit for the time necessary to complete the long construction project would have enabled these workers to park in front of the house and not block the alley. But the owners of the house grew tired of requesting permits every 15 days.
In short, it's way past time to ease the currently stupid permit limitations.
Aaron & Jackie Epstein

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