DCRA Dashboards - visualization tool for various data from DCRA such as performance management, permits issued, illegal construction and vacant building data. The dashboards provide greater transparency, allowing customers to take a look at DCRA’s performance in these areas.

DCRA Data Connect - access information about your community. DCRA has created an open data source where you can search for building permits, illegal construction, and blighted properties in Fiscal Year 2017. You can view interactive data, maps and graphs of the data you request. 

Permit Application Q-Tracker - track your permit application online after your permit application has been submitted, and before it reaches a plan reviewer, you can view your position in line. Depending on your permit application type, you will be able see exactly where your permit application is in the queue of over thirty (30) different review types, allowing you to Skip the Trip to DCRA. 

DCRA’s Office of Weights and Measures celebrated Weights & Measures Week 2018 from March 1-7, 2018.  The Weights and Measures team spent four days at eight different supermarkets around the District highlighting three separate units—weighting, measuring and scanning devices—in which, by law, every establishment must be registered and inspected by DCRA. The Office of Weights and Measures interacted with hundreds of customers, posted displays and disseminated written material.  Additionally, the team shared measuring devices that could be utilized for individual use. For pictures from this event click here.  

DCRA’s annual National Consumer Protection Week was March 4 – 10, 2018. DCRA, a NCPW partner, featured a resource table in the building lobby for customers to access

pertinent information to better understand their consumer rights and remind them to make well-informed decisions about money. We hope our customers found the resources to be helpful. If you have any questions about consumer protection, please contact us directly by calling or 202-442-9550 or dcra.consumerprotection@dc.gov .

DCRA, in partnership with The Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (CNHED), held a workshop on March 23, 2018 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. The workshop provided an in detailed overview about DCRA's permitting, plan review, zoning, and third party procedures and processes. To view pictures from this event click here.

In Fall 2015, DCRA joined the District's GovDelivery digital communications platform. Steadily over the years we have built up our subscriber base and are excited and proud to announce that we have reached over 40,000 email subscribers! 

Join our subscribers and receive our emails by subscribing to your topics of interest here.

Mayor Muriel E. Bowser and Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner invited architects, entrepreneurs and other residents involved or interested in the building industry to attend the Fourth Annual March Madness on March 27, 2018 at The Anthem from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm.  At the event, attendees learned about upcoming solicitation opportunities and had the opportunity to network among the public and private sectors of the DC development community.

Shut the Front Door DC (for Commercial Entities)

In 2016, the law requiring commercial properties to keep their windows and doors closed when running the air conditioner was amended. All commercial properties must keep their doors and windows closed when the air conditioning is running. Enforcement began this month. 

For more information, associated fees, and to see if the law applies to you, please visit doee.dc.gov/service/shut-front-door-dc.

District’s Lead-Hazard Prevention and Elimination Act

Attention District of Columbia Registered Contractors & Licensees! As a District of Columbia Registered contractor or licensee, any time you are disturbing more than two square feet (2 ft2) of painted surface in a pre-1978 building, you must use lead-safe work practices.

The District’s Lead-Hazard Prevention and Elimination Act, as set forth in D.C Official Code § 8-231.01 et seq., and regulations at 20 DCMR § 3302 require lead-safe work practices for individuals, firms, or business entities performing renovation, remodeling, maintenance, repairs, gut rehab, demolition, carpentry, HVAC, roofing, siding, plumbing, painting, or electrical work, inside or on the exterior surfaces of a dwelling unit or a child occupied facility built before 1978, unless the paint has been determined to be lead-free through District-approved testing methods. For more information on preventing lead exposure and lead-safe work practices, please visit DOEE's website. 

DCRA Dashboards is a visualization tool for various data from DCRA such as performance management, permits issued, illegal construction and vacant building data. The dashboards provide greater transparency, allowing customers to take a look at DCRA’s performance in these areas.

DCRA Data Connect is a tool that allows you to access information about your community. DCRA has created an open data source where you can search for building permits, illegal construction, and blighted properties in Fiscal Year 2017. You can view interactive data, maps and graphs of the data you request.