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Someone get Ryan Avent on the phone! The District could be in the market for a “parking czar,” according to an online chat held last Friday with DDOT Director Gabe Klein. Klein wants to install someone who would oversee and manage all the improvements being made to parking regulations in the District. A sound idea, considering that parking ideas in this town, while mostly well-intentioned, are fairly poorly implemented.

Speaking of such innovations, several parking pilots go into effect next Monday, including new multi-space meters (similar to ones that have already been installed around the city), pay-by-phone in Foggy Bottom, Georgetown and around Nationals Park and a system in which “drivers will enter their license plate numbers in multi-space meters, and parking enforcement officers will be able to tell who has paid for parking by reading the tag numbers with handheld or car-mounted devices.”

Those three evaluations kick off on July 19 and will be evaluated for 90 days — just enough time to locate someone who can take the reins of D.C.’s parking things out, it would seem.