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    Certificate of Occupancy

    Metadata Updated: April 1, 2026

    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 April 1, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2026
    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 2026-03-31T05:01:50.000Z
    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 fb9c8500-204e-4d00-89c6-d3bad4f56027
    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 616393887dac497a9e866e7b4a026774247a248ea6def96a531cf5a2a3612adf
    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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