3.1 Within this zone, urbanizations and easements (servidumbres) of an urban type shall only be permitted in the expansion areas of the quadrants of the district capitals. The expansion area shall be the space within a radius of up to two hundred meters, measured from the end of the urban quadrant, in accordance with the demarcation carried out after the effective date of this Decree. The properties must be adequately tied into the existing urban road system. Urban quadrant is defined as the grid-system of cities where the majority of goods and services, the road structure, and its immediate area of influence are located. Furthermore, urban areas are understood in accordance with the Urban Planning Law number 4240.
3.2 INVU and the Municipalities may reject a permit for urbanization when they consider that the proposed urbanization does not produce an organic urban expansion, or that it is premature because it seeks to provide greater growth than that demanded by the needs of the local population. To this effect, INVU may deny permits for urbanization or subdivision (fraccionamiento) based on the provisions established in the corresponding legal norms of the Urban Planning Law.
3.3 Subdivision (fraccionamiento) shall only be permitted fronting existing public roads predating the enactment of the GAM (Gazette number 119 of June 22, 1982), and when these have services even if said services were enabled after the enactment of the GAM. Roads within the expansion area of the towns, as defined in subsection one of this Article, are excepted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for strictly agricultural purposes, segregations fronting easements (servidumbres) or private roads may be permitted, in resulting parcels of no less than seven thousand (7,000) square meters.
3.4 It shall be the responsibility of the Directorate of Urbanism to determine whether the existing road, fronting the subdivision sought to be initiated, existed at the time of approval of the GAM Regulation (published in Gazette number 119 of June 22, 1982), in order to define whether the respective authorization is appropriate or not.
3.5 Within the consolidated urban quadrants of the district capitals and their area of influence (two hundred meters), subdivisions fronting easements (servidumbres) may be accepted, provided that conditions warrant it, in accordance with the Regulation for the National Control of Subdivisions and Urbanizations.
3.6 The Municipality shall deny construction permits on those lots whose segregation has not been authorized or whose use does not conform to the present regulations.
(see maps of the urban quadrants in Scope No. 92 to La Gaceta No. 244 of Wednesday, December 20, 2000; pp. 4 to 40) Effective as of its publication.
San José, November 9, 2000.