Zoning development standards for the District of Columbia, including Floor Area Ratio, Height, Lot Occupancy, and yard requirements. The data is provided by the District of Columbia government and was last updated in March 2026. It is based on the District of Columbia Zoning Regulations of 2016.
Use Cases
- Modeling maximum building density based on Floor Area Ratio (FAR) standards
- Assessing permissible building heights for development projects
- Calculating lot coverage and yard setbacks for zoning compliance checks
- Mapping zoning regulations geographically for spatial analysis
Strengths
- Data is based on the official 2016 District of Columbia Zoning Regulations
- Available in multiple formats including CSV, GEOJSON, and via API
- Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
Provenance
- Source
- District of Columbia government
- Time Range
- Based on regulations from 2016
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-25 08:14:21.375991; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- District of Columbia, Washington D.C.