DOT

The Department of Transportation manages the city's streets and sidewalks, and property interacts with it at the edges of every lot: curb cuts need its permits, construction needs its street and sidewalk closures, and sidewalk repair is an owner obligation it enforces — sidewalk violations directing repair are a routine records item that transfers attention, if not always liability, at sale.

DOT also administers the street furniture and markings that shape a lot's access — bus lanes, loading zones, bike infrastructure — and its capital projects can rebuild the streetscape a property depends on. For development, curb-cut and street-access permissions are the practical intersection: what zoning allows on the lot still has to reach the street lawfully.