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    Building Restriction Lines

    Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

    These are lines beyond which property owners or others have no legal or vested rights to extend a building or any part thereof without approval of the proper authorities; ordinarily a line of demarcation between public and private property, but also applied to a building restriction line, when recorded in the records of the Surveyor.

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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 15, 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 15, 2026
    Publisher Department of Buildings
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=2b0a357ebb564f6eb94d307741cf5e1c&sublayer=9
    Data First Published 2015-02-27T21:09:50.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-11T11:33:49.000Z
    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 1572f505-ff1a-4895-81b4-189c6bf9b45a
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::building-restriction-lines
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1141,38.8205,-76.9120,38.9955
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7c51a9d0d98553be22df575c3e91f450bb49bd14d22d7afc20155e5b8cbd3038
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1141, 38.8205, -77.1141, 38.9955, -76.9120, 38.9955, -76.9120, 38.8205, -77.1141, 38.8205}

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