Parcel Lots

There is still land within the District of Columbia that has never been subdivided into either Record or Tax Lots through the two offices that manage land records (Office of the Surveyor & Real Property Tax Administration). The land is referred to as Parcels, expressed as fractions (Ex Parcel 117/36). In this example, the number “36” would be the 36th out conveyance from original Parcel 117. The tracking of parcels was started in 1905 when, by Act of Congress, all the District’s unsubdivided properties which were mostly rural farms at the time were given parcel numbers. Their boundaries were also depicted (in many cases approximated), in large books in DOB's Office of the Surveyor. Until the late 1960s, building permits were routinely issued by the city for new construction on Parcels, but today all Parcels, like Tax Lots, must be converted into subdivision Lots of Record before permits will be issued for exterior work. Parcels are only found in the old “County of Washington,” north of Florida Ave and east of the Anacostia River. There are no Parcels found within the original city limits or Georgetown. Parcels are not in Squares. There are examples where parcel land may be physically located in the middle of a city Square, but Parcels are not considered part of a Square until they are duly subdivided by the D.C. Surveyor’s Office.哥伦比亚特区（District of Columbia）内仍有部分土地，从未通过负责土地登记的两个办公室——测量师办公室与不动产税务管理局（Office of the Surveyor & Real Property Tax Administration）——划分为记录地块（Record Lots）或计税地块（Tax Lots）。这类土地被称为地块（Parcels），以分数形式标注（例如地块117/36）。在此示例中，数字“36”代表原始地块117拆分出的第36个子地块。地块的编号追踪工作始于1905年，彼时美国国会通过法案，为特区内当时多为乡村农场的全部未分割不动产分配了地块编号，其边界（多数情况下为近似边界）被绘制于DOB测量师办公室的大型登记簿册中。直至20世纪60年代末，该市仍常规为地块上的新建工程核发建筑施工许可；但时至今日，所有地块均需如同计税地块一般，先转换为经备案的分割地块（subdivision Lots of Record），方可申请外立面工程的施工许可。地块仅分布于佛罗里达大道以北、阿纳卡斯蒂亚河以东的旧“华盛顿县”范围内，原城市边界区域或乔治敦（Georgetown）境内并无地块。地块不属于街区（Squares）：部分地块的物理区位可能处于城市街区内部，但在经哥伦比亚特区测量师办公室正式分割确权前，此类地块均不被视作街区的组成部分。