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    Building Permits in 2016

    Metadata Updated: August 20, 2025

    The dataset contains locations and attributes of building construction and alteration permits applied for and approved by the District of Columbia Department of Buildings. These data are shared via an automated process where addresses are batch matched (geocoded) to the District's Master Address Repository. Users may find that some data points will contain 0,0 for X,Y coordinates resulting in inconsistent spatial locations. Addresses for these data points could not be automatically geocoded and will need to be manually geocoded to 'best fit' locations in DC.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date August 20, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date August 20, 2025
    Publisher Department of Buildings
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5d14ae7dcd1544878c54e61edda489c3&sublayer=24
    Data First Published 2016-01-04T14:53:02.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2016-12-31T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id eb1fa3d3-3e5c-4862-833c-63c5da19b423
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::building-permits-in-2016
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1138,38.8127,-76.9096,38.9955
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 6b587b5b14113c8221d0527058205d34d37086303d2e853ed537de439ecc3d72
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1138, 38.8127, -77.1138, 38.9955, -76.9096, 38.9955, -76.9096, 38.8127, -77.1138, 38.8127}

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