Curb cut/driveway in DC?

[Anonymous]

Most legal curb cuts were pretty 1958 zoning laws, and have "no parking signs" issued by the city (I have one, only one on the block).

There are other curb cut driveways without the signs that were probably done post 1958 but no one cared enough to report it. Kind of limbo land of curb cuts -- been there forever, but not legal.

I've seen a recent illegal curb cut for a renovated house with a garage -- only the city caught them and put the curb back. So now they have a garage with no way to put a car in it. They tried driving over the curb for awhile, and that stopped as well.

Embassies pay a decent sum to the city for all of their curb cuts.


So OP, slim chance.

[Anonymous]

Again, not to mention that your driveway likely goes through public space. No chance you'd be able to keep that once reported.

[Anonymous]

We renovated our home with an existing curb cut. We changed the lawn to pea gravel. Months or years later, dc redid the curb, using contractors. One day some city person showed up Asking a lot of questions about the curb cut.

We explained it was there when we moved in and the contractors redid it as it was. Not sure if it appeared on their maps or not but they never came back.

It made us wonder if some people pay off the contractors to cut the curb... Who would know?

[Anonymous]

I'm the poster with the legal curb cut and signs. As mentioned, I am the only one with a driveway on the block with houses on each side, so I am the defacto turn-around spot for all cars looking to park on the street when the open parking space is on the opposite side. Not a huge deal b/c we have a garage blocking car lights, but could be an issue depending on your house configuration.

But again, I think OP's chances are slim.

Doubt anyone pays off the contractors for the city. If they see a curb cut -- probably less work and less flack than creating a curb. Leave it as you found it.

[Anonymous]

I can not believe grown adults with any kind of life have this kind of time to complain about what their neighbors are doing. What kind of whiners do we have here? Yikes!

[Anonymous]

I don't see creating a curb cut for a driveway as, "reserving a public space for yourself." Rather, it's creating space for several cars in the driveway, so that frees up more than one space for others on the street.

[Anonymous]

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Yeah, but this is D.C. They will block you into your own space in a minute. Spitefully so.

Right. That would work (sarcasm).

I have a large collection of those cones. I pick them up off the street when I see them and place them in my car and store them in my garage

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't see creating a curb cut for a driveway as, "reserving a public space for yourself." Rather, it's creating space for several cars in the driveway, so that frees up more than one space for others on the street.

It's unlikely that you can park "several" cars in a driveway in most developing neighborhoods in D.C. without blocking the sidewalk, which would also be illegal. So it most likely frees up no spaces for anyone on the street, and removes the space that used to be where the driveway would go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see creating a curb cut for a driveway as, "reserving a public space for yourself." Rather, it's creating space for several cars in the driveway, so that frees up more than one space for others on the street.

It's unlikely that you can park "several" cars in a driveway in most developing neighborhoods in D.C. without blocking the sidewalk, which would also be illegal. So it most likely frees up no spaces for anyone on the street, and removes the space that used to be where the driveway would go.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't see creating a curb cut for a driveway as, "reserving a public space for yourself." Rather, it's creating space for several cars in the driveway, so that frees up more than one space for others on the street.

It's unlikely that you can park "several" cars in a driveway in most developing neighborhoods in D.C. without blocking the sidewalk, which would also be illegal. So it most likely frees up no spaces for anyone on the street, and removes the space that used to be where the driveway would go.

+1.

+2. PP also assumes that people have several cars, which in the city is often not the case.