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    TOPS Map Viewer

    Metadata Updated: November 27, 2025

    All home owners, tenants, and businesses alike must apply for the specific type of public space occupancy, construction, excavation, annual or rental permit required for use of public spaces within the District of Columbia. Whether they need to occupy metered and unmetered curbside parking, sidewalk, alley or travel lane areas for their activity or construction related work, a permit must be applied through the TOPS process. Developers in need of a zoning plan review through the Development Review Branch also must work though TOPS.Use this application to locate a permit by address or filter by Ward. Use your device current location to find a permit nearby. The application will zoom to the location on the map and relevant information about the permit or pending permits will display.

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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 November 27, 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 November 27, 2025
    Publisher District Department of Transportation
    Maintainer
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    Data First Published 2015-02-25T20:24:15.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-02-16T21:45:48.000Z
    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 a316d511-04a0-432f-ade1-60c0b8ba4330
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::tops-map-viewer
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1759,38.7870,-76.8933,39.0010
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0fb2bbad253f2b19d905b068129a34e8e318cada8c7acc6cec7baa00c93db9dd
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1759, 38.7870, -77.1759, 39.0010, -76.8933, 39.0010, -76.8933, 38.7870, -77.1759, 38.7870}

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