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    Home Occupancy Permit

    Metadata Updated: April 15, 2026

    All applicants for a Basic Business License operating from a residential location the District of Columbia must provide a Home Occupation (HOP) for the premise address from which the business activity is conducted in order to demonstrate the activity does not conflict with building and zoning codes. A home occupation is a business, profession or other economic activity conducted full- or part-time in the principal residence of the person conducting the business. This permit is required for operating a business from a residential home.

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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 City of Washington, DC
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=3a0425a60b7c4e28bd045900cec699b4&sublayer=45
    Data First Published 2022-01-27T15:31:25.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-14T05:01:47.000Z
    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 33ce2b6a-9828-4288-a324-97fef31b7a24
    Harvest Source Id b05f955a-65d6-4288-9558-15a5ebc74e36
    Harvest Source Title DC data
    Homepage URL https://opendata.dc.gov/datasets/DCGIS::home-occupancy-permit
    License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -77.1118,38.8202,-76.9125,38.9930
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 59e81e0e946d1317011f1b732f2d7296e068a56f7a44b1ebbd914e96f8412b86
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": -77.1118, 38.8202, -77.1118, 38.9930, -76.9125, 38.9930, -76.9125, 38.8202, -77.1118, 38.8202}

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