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    Historic Zoning Map from 1936

    Metadata Updated: April 1, 2026

    This historic 1936 zoning map was digitized and georeferenced to Washington, D.C. It is from the Washingtoniana Map Collection at the District of Columbia Public Library’s DIG DC site. The 1936 map depicts the 1920 regulations amended to 1936 and was published for the DC Zoning Commission by Rufus Lusk. This map breaks the residential zone into six different categories regulating the type of housing allowed in an area. This map also includes regulations on residential lot occupancy. It is used in the Office of Zoning's Historic Web Viewer . More information this map and other content found on the DC Public Library DIG DC website .

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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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    Metadata Created Date April 1, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2026

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    Harvested from DC data

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 1, 2026
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2026
    Publisher D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2017-04-20T16:39:18.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2017-04-20T00:00:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::historic-zoning-map-from-1936
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1199,38.7915,-76.9090,38.9960
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c753f3dc67bc942c4096b3eccba0cd913af7302b065c8cf23d5e3cd9f6dc66ab
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