Black Lives Matter Plaza will temporarily reopen to traffic for the first time in nearly a year.

One lane in each direction on 16th Street NW near the White House will reopen  Sunday, according to a news release from the District Department of Transportation. The change will last through mid-April.

The center of the plaza will remain designated for pedestrians and protected from cars, the release said. Officers with the transportation department and the Metropolitan Police Department will continue to monitor traffic.

The release did not say why the city is temporarily reopening the plaza to traffic. A DDOT spokesperson did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

The site has been closed to traffic since summer, when after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, it became an epicenter for protest and, later, celebration and community.

Bowser directed muralists on June 5 to paint “Black Lives Matter” in 35-foot-tall letters on the pavement of a two-block stretch of 16th Street NW, just north of the White House.

During a ceremonial renaming, Bowser said she wanted to call attention “to making sure our nation is more fair and more just and that Black lives and Black humanity matter in our nation.”

The renaming happened days after U.S. Park Police and National Guard troops used tear gas and violently shoved protesters in front of Lafayette Park so then-President Donald Trump could stage a photo in front of the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.