For the purposes of the Regulatory Plan, the terms indicated below shall have the following meanings:
1. Sanitary sewer system. System of drains, sewers, and mains used for the collection of solid and liquid waste from a city or a residential development for its subsequent treatment and final disposal.
2. Maximum height. Corresponds to the maximum vertical distance between the average ground level at the base of the structure and its highest point.
3. Front yard (Antejardín). It is the open area of a lot facing the public road that, due to restrictions of the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transporte, must be left unbuilt, which in no way implies a restriction on property rights; on the contrary, it is a non-construction regulation in the area between the property line and the building line.
4. Minimum area. It is the smallest surface area permitted for a plot of land.
5. Previously urbanized area. It is all that area occupied by Residential Developments and subdivisions (fraccionamiento) whose transfer of public areas has been duly approved by the competent Bodies in this urban matter.
6. Street. Any public road that allows the transit of vehicles and pedestrians.
7. National Highway. All public roads included as part of the national road network and that are regulated by the MOPT.
8. Coverage. It is the horizontal projection of a structure or the area of land covered by such a structure.
9. Density. It is the relationship between the number of inhabitants per hectare destined for an exclusively residential use.
10. Net density. For this, the figure of six thousand square meters per hectare is considered, discounting forty percent (four thousand square meters) for infrastructure based on this:
X = No. of inhabitants Per Hectare X = No. of ha * lot area Hectare Where, X is the number of inhabitants that fit in that Lot.
Density is equal to the Number of lots times the average of inhabitants per dwelling (4.33) Example:
Number of lots / Ha. 6,000 Lot area Density = Number of lots times the average of Ha / dwelling (4.33) Lot Size = 155 – 170 Density = 173 ha. / Hect.
Number of lots per Hect. 40 Ha / Lot:
155 6000 4.33 x 11. Right-of-way. Total width of the highway, street, path, easement (servidumbre), or mall. It is the distance between the property lines, including, where appropriate, the roadway, green strips, sidewalk, and slopes.
12. Minimum lot frontage. It is the minimum permitted length of the front demarcation line or boundary of a property.
13. Lot. It is the land demarcated from neighboring properties with access to one or more paths or roads.
14. Official map. It is the plan or set of plans in which the position of the layouts of public roads and the areas to be reserved for communal use and services are accurately indicated.
15. Floor. In a building, it is the level platform that serves as a surface to support furniture.
16. Setback (Retiro). These are the open, non-buildable spaces between the structure and the boundaries of the respective property. The minimum required setbacks shall be measured perpendicularly to the respective boundaries.
17. Residential Development (Urbanización). It is the subdivision (fraccionamiento) and development of a land for urban purposes, through the opening of streets and provision of adequate services.
18. Non-conforming use. Is that use that does not conform to the proposed zoning.
19. Permitted use or conforming use. Is that use to which the owner of a property is entitled to destine it, constructing the necessary structures, after processing the respective permits.
20. Conditional use. Is that use that may be permitted in a zone, subject to special authorization from both the Municipality, Ministerio de Salud, and Urbanism Directorate of the INVU, setting technically defined restrictions and special requirements, additional to those established for conforming uses.
21. Public road. It is all land of public domain and common use that, by provision of the administrative authority, is destined for free transit.
22. Zoning. It is the division of a territorial circumscription into use zones in order to achieve a rational use of the land.
23. Developable land (Suelo urbanizable). It is that land that has the potential and conditions to be urbanized.
24. Non-developable land (Suelo no urbanizable). It is that land whose urbanization is not possible or not convenient for various reasons, among them: ecological, landscape, natural risks, or due to physical limitations such as slopes, geological faults, floods, or subject to another series of threats.
On this type of land, only some type of activity will be permitted whose purpose is ecological preservation, landscape improvement, or the protection of the population and creation of green areas, for the benefit of the physical environment.
25. Building area. It is the total sum of the areas of the various floors that constitute a building, excluding rooftops, open balconies, and porticos.
26. Special control areas. These are those zones where, due to established provisions, the aim is to preserve architecturally homogeneous zones of special significance, historical, cultural, environmental, landscape value, etc.
27. Urban growth areas. Are the areas defined as suitable for urban development. A growth area, in its most significant aspect, implies favored, stimulated growth. The area in question is capable of growing more adequately than the other non-selected areas that surround it. As a consequence, public authorities must grant it priority and attention.
28. Urban development area. It is that area suitable for being urbanized in accordance with the city's growth.
29. Use certificate. It is the one granted by the Municipality stating the use and requirements that correspond to a property according to its location within the zoning established within the Regulatory Plan.
30. Parking lots. Those places, whether buildings or public or private lots, destined for storing vehicles, including bus and taxi terminals.
31. Industrial establishments. It is any place, uncovered or covered, destined for the elaboration, manipulation, repair, transformation, or utilization of natural or artificial products, through physical, chemical, or biological treatment, manually or by means of machines or mechanical instruments. Excluded from this category are sites destined to receive or store artifacts, instruments, utensils, materials, and raw materials that are used in the tasks or work, and all annexes and dependencies of the factory or workshop.
Bus and freight transport parking lots are considered industrial establishments due to the nuisance this activity implies.
These industrial establishments are classified into: annoying, harmless, annoying unhealthy, and dangerous, according to the Department of Industrial Health and Hygiene of the Ministerio de Salud, and according to the Regulation on Industrial Zoning.
32. Subdivision (Fraccionamiento). It is the division of any property for the purpose of selling, transferring, negotiating, distributing, exploiting, or utilizing separately, the resulting parcels, including both partitions by judicial or extrajudicial adjudication, localization of undivided rights, and mere segregations in the name of the same owner, as well as those located in residential developments (urbanizaciones) or new constructions that are of interest to the control of the formation and urban use of real estate.
33. Regulatory Plan. It is the local planning instrument that defines, in a set of plans, maps, regulations, and any other document, graphic, or supplement, the development policy and plans for population distribution, land uses, circulation routes, public services, community facilities, and constructions; conservation and rehabilitation of urban areas.
34. Road System Plan. It is the circulation Plan, for planning the road communication network in a hierarchical manner for a determined territory. It takes into account routes for pedestrians, for motor vehicles, airports, parking lots, terminals and transfer points, channels, etc. It includes and integrates all routes and means of public transport.
35. Urban development regulations. Are all those norms that Municipalities adopt generally with the purpose of making the Regulatory Plan effective.