Washington, DC Parking Rules: Preferential Parking Districts (2026)

C. Code § 50-2551 establishes the Ward 1 Enhanced Residential Parking Program and gives any Ward 1 Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) the power to vote, by resolution, to include blocks within its boundaries in the Program. Once a block participates, subsection (a)(1) requires that at least 50% of the legal residential parking spaces on that block be designated Zone 1 Permitted Parking Only, a higher set-aside than the District's ordinary residential permit parking rules provide elsewhere in the city. C. C. Code § 50-2552. The statute carves out two exclusions that keep the Program from applying everywhere at once: subsection (b) excludes blocks inside a streetscape construction project impact zone, as designated by the Mayor, until the Mayor declares the major construction associated with that streetscape complete, and subsection (c) bars the Program from applying within one block of a ward boundary, instead requiring those boundary blocks to accept residential permits valid in either adjacent ward if the block was already a residential permit parking street before the Program began.

C. Code § 50-2552 required the Mayor to issue implementing rules within 90 days of the October 26, 2010 enactment date, submitted to the Council for a 30-day review period, and those rules had to address boundary-street eligibility, the definition of a streetscape construction impact zone, and the process and hours for the visitor pass.