But the car owners won’t have to pay them.

Attention car-owners without private driveways or garage spots: Street-cleaning season starts anew on Thursday, with enforcement to begin on March 12.

The District’s Department of Public Works today begins using its new “SweeperCam” technology, those cameras attached to street sweepers that can take photos of illegally parked cars and issue parking citations to them. In a press release, the department says that for the next 45 days, illegally parked cars caught on the “SweeperCam” will receive warnings only. Regular tickets with fines attached will be issued beginning October 14, 2008. DPW officials stressed that the goal…