700. INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION This chapter provides parking regulations intended to: Ensure that vehicular parking areas are located, accessed, and designed to minimize negative impacts on adjacent property, urban design, the pedestrian environment, and public spaces; Ensure that vehicle parking areas are safe and accessible; and Ensure that surface parking areas are planted and landscaped to be compatible with their surroundings, and to reduce environmental impacts. Any building permit application for new construction or an addition to an existing building shall be accompanied by a detailed parking plan demonstrating full compliance with this chapter. The Zoning Administrator may, at his or her discretion, request that the District Department of Transportation review and make a recommendation regarding any item on the vehicle parking plan prior to approving the building permit application. No certificate of occupancy shall be issued unless the vehicle parking spaces have been constructed in accordance with the approved parking plans. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 63 DCR 2447, 2712 (March 4, 2016 – Part 2). District of Columbia Municipal Regulations Zoning Regulations of 2016: General Rules 11-C DCMR § 700