Condo Approval Lots

The table represents documentation (Book & Page) approved for condominium development. Projects can be built in multiple phases and thus the potential for several condo subdivisions per on dwelling. Users can join this table with the following map and table layers: Common Ownership Lots, Condo Approval Lots, Condo Relate Table to view all related condo subdivisions.

This layer is derived from the Common Ownership Lots and represents property transactions as they’ve occurred since the implementation of the Vector Property Mapping program in September 2006. A property transaction entails new geometry (split/combination of Lot(s) or property type conversion (from Air Rights, Record, or Tax Lots to Condo lots). The layer contains locations and attributes of archived features (inactive lots – dead lots) and corresponds with Office of Tax and Revenue's Public Extract files (ITSPE). It occurs weekly for the current calendar year and geometry updated when a transaction occurs.

Data source is the Office of Tax and Revenue’s Computer-Assisted Mass Appraisal (CAMA) system. The CAMA system is used by the Assessment Division (AD) within the Real Property Tax Administration to value real estate for ad valorem real property tax purposes. The intent of this data is to provide a sale history for active properties listed among the District of Columbia’s real property tax assessment roll. This data is updated daily. The AD constantly maintains sale data, adding new data and updating existing data. Daily updates represent a “snapshot” at the time the data was extracted from the CAMA system, and data is always subject to change.

The dataset contains locations and attributes of building construction and alteration permits applied for and approved by the District of Columbia Department of Buildings. These data are shared via an automated process where addresses are batch matched (geocoded) to the District's Master Address Repository. Users may find that some data points will contain 0,0 for X,Y coordinates resulting in inconsistent spatial locations. Addresses for these data points could not be automatically geocoded and will need to be manually geocoded to 'best fit' locations in DC.

The dataset contains locations and attributes of owner lines with dimensions. The tax information (attribution) comes from the Office of Tax and Revenue's Public Extract file. The creation of this layer is automated, occurs weekly, and uses the most currently available tax information. The date of the extract can be found in the EXTRACTDAT field in this layer.

This table is a subset of ITSPE and represents vacant and blighted property. The tax assessment roll public extract (ITSPE) is used for assessment and property analysis, to send property tax bills and notices, and stores comprehensive tax information such as ownership, mailing addresses, non-contiguous Air Rights lots (Multifamily or Development), Air Rights lots, possessory interest lots, record lots, tax lots, parcels, condominiums, and federally owned lands such as reservations and appropriations. The linkage from the Vector Property layers to this database is SSL (Square, Suffix, and Lot). It should be noted that not all record lots have a direct 1:1 relationship to information in this database. The most obvious examples would be when a tax lot was created from existing record lots. In this case, only the tax lot would have linkage to the ITSPE, not the underlying record lots (though they still exist). Reservations that have been converted into tax lots are an additional example where the reservation still exists, however for taxation purposes the tax lot (overlay) supersedes and has corresponding linkage to ITS. The same is true for most Condominiums and the ground surface lot (Record) which still exist (common space) or the previous overlay (Air Right or Tax lot), only the Condo lot would have linkage to (ITSPE).