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    Transportation Online Permitting System (TOPS)

    Metadata Updated: November 27, 2025

    This online system enables home owners, tenants, and businesses alike to apply for the specific type of public space occupancy, construction, excavation, annual or rental permit required for use of the public space within the District of Columbia. Whether you need to occupy metered and unmetered curbside parking, sidewalk, alley or travel lane areas for your activity or construction related work, TOPS will work for you. If you are a developer or are in need of a zoning plan review through the Development Review Branch, TOPS will work for you as well.Once registered, the system makes it easy for you to log into your account any time to apply for a permit, edit your application, upload plans electronically, or check the status of your application. It even allows you to pay for the permit online and then print your permit and reserved parking or emergency no parking signs at any of the DDOT kiosks. For additional public space permitting information, please visit our web site at ddot.dc.gov.

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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 2014-07-15T17:48:22.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2022-02-16T21:27:00.000Z
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/apps/DCGIS::transportation-online-permitting-system-tops
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Source Datajson Identifier True
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