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    Licenses and Inspections Building and Zoning Permits

    Metadata Updated: June 23, 2025

    The Department of Licenses & Inspections reviews construction plans and conducts building inspections to ensure the safety of the workers and the public.

    Zoning permits are issued to authorize new construction or additions to a building or to authorize the change of use in a building or ground.

    Building permits are required before the start of a specific construction activity to enlarge, repair, change, add to or demolish a structure, and to install equipment or systems in a structure. Depending on the scale or type of construction activity, it may need to be first authorized via a zoning permit. Permit contractors are also available as a dataset. Plumbing and electrical permits, among others, may also be required for new or existing buildings.

    Please note that this is a very large dataset.

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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: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 31, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date June 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Phila data json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 31, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date June 23, 2025
    Publisher City of Philadelphia
    Maintainer
    Identifier licenses-and-inspections-building-and-zoning-permits
    Data Last Modified R/P1D
    Public Access Level public
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Harvest Object Id 3030122f-810a-4149-9d23-1909c99e2708
    Harvest Source Id 7154dab7-a9cc-48a0-9300-2d15e63fad34
    Harvest Source Title Phila data json
    License https://metadata.phila.gov/#help/help-faqs/what-are-the-terms-of-use/
    Old Spatial Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cce6608c6831a034d4549806bf8e55f471ff79c9df6b297b7410ba749f88dd87
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial

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