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    Certificate of Occupancy

    Metadata Updated: August 13, 2025

    All applicants for a Basic Business License operating from a commercial location in the District of Columbia must provide a Certificate of Occupancy (C of O) for the premise address from which the business activity is conducted in order to demonstrate the activity does not conflict with building and zoning codes. A certificate of occupancy is needed to occupy any structure other than a single family dwelling. To include the following uses: two family flat, apartment house, and all commercial uses.

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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 13, 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 13, 2025
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=fbc9363a728d4c008eeb98f9ac62a35a&sublayer=46
    Data First Published 2022-02-15T14:41:14.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-08-04T09:37:08.000Z
    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 488382d3-dcf3-4d34-bdec-c9e0e38faeaf
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::certificate-of-occupancy
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1119,38.8133,-76.9099,38.9902
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash b29ddb2880ebf80ce2b74fc1b634194615ad87260d2ab02f204634267cfc4d8b
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1119, 38.8133, -77.1119, 38.9902, -76.9099, 38.9902, -76.9099, 38.8133, -77.1119, 38.8133}

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