Parking Authority drops annual doctor recertification for disabled permits; pledges mobile payments and revenue estimate

Pete Little, executive director of the Parking Authority of Baltimore City, told City Council members the agency has removed the annual requirement that medically certified, permanently disabled residents obtain a doctor’s recertification for residential reserved disabled parking spaces and has begun expanding payment technology and capital work at city garages.

“Their mission is to find or create and implement parking solutions for Baltimore City,” Little said, introducing the authority’s team and summarizing recent progress. He said the authority has installed new access and revenue control equipment at 11 of 12 city-owned or -leased garages, is completing one remaining installation this summer, and plans a citywide rollout of multiple mobile payment apps and a text-pay option by the end of the calendar year.

The change to remove the doctor recertification requirement was…