Washington, D.C. Plans Potential Changes in Zoning for Parking Spaces

Six years of work went into a nearly 1,000-page document by the Office of Planning in Washington, D.C. The document is the proposed new zoning code for the city, and it includes a number of changes such as eliminating the mandatory minimum number of parking spaces developers are required to provide in new buildings. The decision would be left to the marketplace to decide and in transit corridors, mandatory minimums would be reduced by 50 percent.