Site permits · District of Columbia

Where District of Columbia breaks ground, permit by permit.

Grading, utility, and site work filings are the earliest permits on a parcel, which makes them the earliest warning of everything that follows. Tradewinds observes them in county permit records.

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What site filings mark.
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Grading and excavation

The first permit on a parcel that is about to be built on, ahead of every trade that follows.

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Utility and sewer work

Service connections date the point at which a parcel becomes buildable.

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Stormwater and drainage

Drainage filings mark parcels under active development, and they carry the engineering firm's name.

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The earliest signal

Site work leads the sequence, so it is the longest lead time the permit record offers.

2226
site permits observed in District of Columbia, since January 2009

By county

Washington DC 2226

By year

2009 75
2010 133
2011 122
2012 148
2013 155
2014 151
2015 156
2016 157
2017 159
2018 159
2019 147
2020 92
2021 152
2022 107
2023 103
2024 79
2025 73
2026 58

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Every Monday we publish last week's site permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.

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Tell us your territory and we will bring the data to the first call. See the counties and trades we cover on the coverage page, or the firms doing this work in the contractor registry.

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Built from county permit filings. Not every filing names a trade cleanly, and counties differ in what they publish, so these counts reflect our coverage as much as the work happening on the ground.