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From: "Hernandez, Monica (DDOT)" <Monica.Hernandez@dc.gov>
To: DDOT List <ddot@lyris.dc.gov>
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2013 12:48 PM
Subject: DDOT Release: New Visitor Parking Pass Program Will Be Available District Wide
Government of the District of Columbia
Department of Transportation
Department of Transportation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, August 8, 2013
New Visitor Parking Pass Program Will Be Available District Wide
Pass Available to all Residential Parking Permit Eligible Households
Residents Required to Apply to Obtain Pass
(Washington, D.C.) The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that the Visitor Parking Pass (VPP) program will be available District wide to all Residential Parking Permit (RPP) eligible households and those in ANCs 1A, 1B and 1C.
The VPP program is designed to allow guests of District residents to park for more than two hours on RPP blocks. To see the list of RPP designated street blocks visit http://ddotfiles.com/db/RPP/rpp.php.
The current pass expires September 30, 2013 and unlike previous years DDOT is no longer automatically mailing the pass to residents. Instead, residents will be required to apply for the pass through a simplified, user-friendly method made available through DDOT. In the coming weeks DDOT will be providing details on when and how residents will be able to apply for a VPP.
The new pass will be provided free of charge and will be valid for one-year; effective October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. The VPP is only valid during the hours of RPP enforcement and only one pass will be available per household or specified unit. VPP remains valid only in the same ANC boundary as the residence.
Please Note: District residents cannot use a VPP in lieu of registering their vehicles with the District Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). If residents who receive a pass have guests that stay overnight regularly, then the visitor must register their vehicle through the Registration of Out of State Automobile (ROSA) program once a Warning Citation is issued by DPW parking enforcement personnel. Residents will also continue to be able to obtain Temporary Parking Passes from Metropolitan Police Department stations for eligible vehicles.
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Not a big change, as long as the method really is a "simplified, user friendly" method. (Did other areas have a method before now that is being "simplified"?)
ReplyDeleteOkay fine. How about letting us know this when you actually have a system in place DDOT? I want to go do it now, but your release tells me to wait. Send the release when I can act on it. Sheesh.
ReplyDeleteOh, and get on it, it's less than 60 days away that our current VPP expires. Tick tick.
the way they use to do it was it would just show up in the mail. I have 2 unit flat and would always have to call for a second on for my tenants but they were always pretty easy about sending a second one. The following year it showed up automatically
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