(Updated at 4:45 p.m.) Visitors to Southwest will have to feed parking meters along the waterfront for two more hours in the coming months.

By the end of June, parking meter enforcement on Maine Avenue and Water Street SW is expected to happen from 7 a.m. to midnight every day except Sunday, when meters aren’t monitored, WTOP reported this afternoon.

Initially, the new meter hours were to take effect tomorrow, under the D.C. budget approved earlier this year. Meter enforcement hours currently are from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The two streets are among eight “premium demand zones,” which have longer hours of parking enforcement and more costly meters than most other parts of the District.

The zones, which also include the National Mall and Adams Morgan, have meters that charge $2 per hour. Outside of the areas, meters charge 75 cents per hour and operate from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

As more than 850,000 locals leave the D.C.-area this Labor Day weekend, residents who stay behind can look forward to a free concert at the U.S. Capitol and their last chance to go swimming before all the Capitol Hill-area public pools close for the season.

The National Symphony Orchestra will play its annual free Labor Day concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol on Sunday at 8 p.m. The concert will feature classic patriotic tunes, some Aaron Copland classics and several other well-known songs.

On the eastern side of the Hill, the Rosedale Pool at 1701 Gales St. NE, the last pool open in the Capitol Hill area, will be open all weekend and close for the season at 6 p.m. Monday.

Here is some other information for the holiday weekend:

• City Services: D.C. and federal government offices will be closed Monday. Trash and recycling collection will be pushed back one day for the whole week. There will be no street sweeping on Monday, but the schedule for the rest of the week will not change. Parking meters and restrictions only will be enforced in the neighborhoods surrounding Nationals Park and along the H Street NE streetcar route.
• Roads: All roads will be open throughout the weekend, as construction-related projects are ordered to take place off of streets until Tuesday.
• Riding Metro: On Monday, Metro trains and buses will operate on Sunday schedules, with scheduled work on the Red, Orange, Silver and Blue lines.

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Councilman Charles Allen of Ward 6 is calling on Mayor Muriel Bowser to reconsider her decision to allow commercial buses serving Union Station to park on Buzzard Point in Southwest.

In an open letter to the mayor published on The Southwester’s website today, Allen said allowing the buses to park on Buzzard Point will place too much of a burden on Southwest residents. The councilman said Bowser should find a different location for the vehicles.

“Adding commercial bus parking to Buzzard Point will undoubtedly create additional pressures within these vibrant residential neighborhoods and negatively impact the community,” Allen said in his letter.

Bowser already has changed the location of the overflow bus parking before.

The group responsible for the restoration and construction at Union Station initially had sought to park the buses at the long-closed Alexander Crummell School in Ivy City, a move that was unpopular with residents of the Northeast community. At the beginning of August, Bowser assured Ivy City residents that their neighborhood would not house the buses, opting instead to park them on Buzzard Point and at other locations around D.C., The Washington Post reported.

But Allen said that moving the buses to Buzzard Point will “overburden” an area that is already home to several large-scale construction projects, including The Wharf.

“Neighborhood streets are already at capacity with construction traffic for the many projects underway,” Allen said, adding that “the combination of heavy commercial traffic seriously impacts pedestrian safety and the quality of life in Southwest.”

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The Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon isn’t the only reason you might have to move your car this weekend — residential street sweeping starts Monday.

The Department of Public Works is advising drivers to check street signs for which days and hours parking is prohibited while the District sweeps streets. The mechanical sweeping initially scheduled for March 1 is set to start late because of the winter weather.

Fines for violating the street signs on sweeping cost $45 each.

The sweeping season will run through Oct. 31.

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(Updated at 2:30 p.m.) The snow emergency is over but some D.C. residents are facing big parking tickets.

Mayor Muriel Bowser declared an official end to the D.C. Snow Emergency at 2 p.m., which resumes regular parking rules and taxi fares. But dozens of drivers were ticketed for not moving their cars out of the paths of plows.

D.C. towed 132 vehicles that were illegally parked between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on snow emergency routes, Bowser’s office announced. The tickets cost $350, plus a $20 per day storage fee, as the city warned drivers last night. Snow emergency routes on the Hill include Constitution Avenue, Independence Avenue and H Street.

The city impound lot is closed today because D.C. government is closed. To find your car, you can call 202-541-6083 or visit this website.

In other snow day news, Metro restored more bus service as of 1:30 p.m. Metro trains are still running on a Saturday schedule.

A plan seems to be inching along to improve parking near Eastern Market on weekends.

District Department of Transportation representatives will speak at a community meeting tomorrow night (Wednesday) about ideas to fix the weekend parking clog, reviving discussions that have gone on since at least 2011.

Fixing parking problems at Eastern Market — an area that, unlike much of the District, is less crowded on weekdays but inundated on weekends — has long been a priority for ANC 6B, transportation committee chair Kirsten Oldenburg said. The commission pushed for expanding performance-based parking, which allows the city to charge higher costs during times of peak demand. Such systems are already in place around Nationals Park and on the H Street Corridor.

However, DDOT failed to act on an expansion of performance-based parking, even as District Council members joined in support for the plan, Oldenburg said. The department told ANC 6B they could not expand the performance parking plan without additional review.

“It was a very frustrating process for all of us,” she said.

Still, Oldenburg said she looks forward to hearing what DDOT has to say and to start working toward a solution.

“[The meeting] will begin plans for the coming months,” she said.

The meeting will be held tomorrow at 7 p.m. in room 314 of the Hill Center, at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. The DDOT representatives expected to speak tomorrow night declined to discuss the presentation they’ll give.

Photo via NCinDC/Flickr

As many locals circle the neighborhood for precious parking spots, some Hill residents are paying top dollar for dedicated spaces.

The priciest parking spot on Capitol Hill this year sold for more than $95 per square foot. A 1,061-square foot garage built in 1920 was the most expensive space. The 314 13th St. NE real estate went for $101,500 in September, according to data from the real estate firm Redfin.

“People will invest for convenience,” Redfin Capitol Hill agent Michael Alderfer said. “If it’s a desirable location, someone will want to own it.”

The second-most expensive garage sold for $80,000. The brick structure behind 638 G St. SE boasts an automatic door and electricity, the listing says.

The third-most expensive space went for $40,000, in Capitol Hill Tower at 1000 New Jersey Ave. SE.

Parking spaces in the Capitol Hill Historic District are in particular demand, Yarmouth Management’s information manager, Tim Burr, said.

“[Spaces] are rare at the older buildings,” he said. “The places that do usually have parking are the newer buildings.”

Top prices for Hill parking spaces could be even higher than what’s officially listed. Many deals for spaces happen quietly, between neighbors, a Redfin spokeswoman said.

When someone is spending millions on a house, the price tag for a parking spaces doesn’t seem so high, Alderfer said.

“An extra hundred thousand is a great idea,” he said.

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