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    Business Improvement Districts

    Metadata Updated: April 8, 2026

    Business Improvement Districts (BID). The dataset contains locations and attributes of the BID jurisdictions (Downtown, Golden Triangle, Mt. Vernon Triangle, Adams Morgan, Georgetown, and NoMa), first authorized under the Business Improvement Districts Act of 1996. This layer also contains the Mt. Vernon Community Improvement District (CID). Jurisdictions were identified from public records (websites, legacy GIS data, real property records).

    A Business Improvement District (BID) is a self-taxing district established by property owners to enhance the economic vitality of a specific commercial area. The tax is a surcharge on the real property tax liability. The tax is collected by the District of Columbia and all revenues are returned entirely to the nonprofit organization managing the BID. Business and property owners control the BID and how funds are spent. There are currently 12 BIDs in the District of Columbia.

    The Department of Small and Local Business Development manages the certification of BIDs and the BID charter extension process.

    Access & Use Information

    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 8, 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 8, 2026
    Publisher City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=20ec5862d8f14bcbb9bf14f79c311406&sublayer=15
    Data First Published 2015-02-27T20:36:14.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-03-27T00:00:00.000Z
    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 591dba96-80b4-4583-a510-61c153d4fb80
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::business-improvement-districts
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.0889,38.8313,-76.9726,38.9612
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7baae5d3c372c81e1d83478cdd2cf69c145d5774d523744ae6168716c1d57d31
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.0889, 38.8313, -77.0889, 38.9612, -76.9726, 38.9612, -76.9726, 38.8313, -77.0889, 38.8313}

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