1. Sanitary sewer system (Alcantarillado sanitario): System of drains, culverts, and sewers used to collect the solid and liquid wastes of a city or urbanization (urbanización) for their subsequent treatment and final disposal.
2. Maximum height (Altura máxima): Corresponds to the maximum vertical distances between the average ground level at the base of the structure and the highest point thereof.
3. Front setback (Antejardín): Free area of a lot facing the public thoroughfare that, by restriction of the MOPT or the Municipality, must be left undeveloped, thus implying a restriction of non-construction in the area between the property line and the building line.
4. Minimum area (Área mínima): The smallest permitted surface area of a lot.
5. Previously urbanized area (Área previamente urbanizada): All that area occupied by urbanizations (urbanizaciones) and subdivisions (fraccionamientos) whose transfer of public areas has been duly approved by the competent agencies.
6. Street (Calle): Any public thoroughfare that allows the transit of vehicles and pedestrians.
7. National highway (Carretera nacional): All public roads included as part of the national road network and that are regulated by the MOPT.
8. Maximum coverage (Cobertura máxima): This is derived from the quotient of dividing the area of land covered by the structure by the lot area.
9. Density (Densidad): Ratio between the number of inhabitants per hectare, destined exclusively for housing.
10. Right-of-way (Derecho de vía): Total width of the highway, street, path, easement (servidumbre), or mall, that is, the distance between property lines, including, as the case may be, the roadway, green areas, sidewalks, and embankments.
11. Minimum frontage (Frente mínimo): Is the minimum permitted length of the front demarcation line or boundary of a lot.
12. Lot (Lote): Is the piece of land separated from neighboring properties with access to one or more rights-of-way.
13. Official Map (Mapa Oficial): Is the plan or set of plans indicating the position of the layouts of public thoroughfares.
14. Story (Piso): In a building, it is the level platform that serves as a floor.
15. Setback (Retiro): The open, non-buildable spaces between the structure and the boundaries of the respective property; the minimum setbacks required shall be measured perpendicularly from the respective boundaries.
16. Urbanization (Urbanización): Subdivision (fraccionamiento) and enablement of land for urban purposes, through the opening of streets and provision of adequate services.
17. Non-conforming use: one that does not conform to the zoning (zonificación).
18. Permitted use: one to which the owner has the right to assign by constructing the necessary structures, following the prior processing of the respective permits.
19. Public thoroughfare (Vía pública): all land in the public domain and for common use that, by provision of the administrative authority, is destined for free transit.
20. Road network (Vialidad): set of thoroughfares and spaces destined for the circulation and movement of vehicles or pedestrians.
21. Zoning (Zonificación): the division of a territorial circumscription into use zones, for the purpose of achieving a rational use of the land.