Parking

DC allows community uses, keeps parking minimums for closed schools

by David Alpert   •   June 27, 2008 5:02 pm

After I found about about DDOT's emergency rules on bus loading, I started monitoring the DC Register. This week's includes emergency zoning rules on what uses are allowed in the buildings that contained the recently-closed schools:

• DC government agencies, except vehicle storage/maintenance or anything that extends outside the building
  
• Medical and dental clinics
  
• Community service nonprofits that benefit the local community
  
• Nonprofit offices

Stevens Elementary School, one of DC's
recently-closed schools. Photo from DCPS.

The rules also state that the off-street parking requirement will be the same as in the most restrictive zone that allows that kind of use. It's too bad we can't get a start on the relaxed parking requirements, but this isn't worse than the requirements for these kinds of uses today. Hopefully this won't lead to many unnecessary new parking lots next to schools.

David Alpert is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greater Greater Washington and Greater Greater Education. He worked as a Product Manager for Google for six years and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He loves the area which is, in many ways, greater than those others, and wants to see it become even greater.