a. Access: Road onto which a plot or property faces.
b. Maximum height: Established from the ground to the ridge point of the building.
c. Furnishings: Set of urban elements, such as benches, trash receptacles, tables, posts, shelters, signs, and small structures that support services for user comfort.
d. Apartotel: Establishment that provides lodging service for a daily or monthly rate, and that has the following characteristics:
It may consist of apartment-type units with one or more bedrooms, private bathroom, dining room, kitchen, or occupy the entirety of a building or an absolutely independent part thereof, and its dependencies constitute a homogeneous whole, with entrances for the exclusive use of the establishment; it also includes the service in the rate; and has parking for the guests' vehicles. Its design respects standards that guarantee an adequate relationship with the sustaining natural environment.
e. Green area: Free areas covered with grass or trees, for public or communal use, intended for recreation and ornamentation.
f. Cabin (Cabina): Establishment that provides lodging service for a daily or monthly rate, with units that are independent, with one or more bedrooms, private bathroom, kitchen, independent entrance from the exterior, and with parking for the guests' vehicles.
g. Campsites: Establishment that provides a rental service, for a daily or monthly rate, of duly demarcated and conditioned land to facilitate outdoor life, in which one stays overnight in a tent.
h. Use certification: Document in which the possibility of using a portion of land for the construction of the works covered in this Regulation is established. Said certificate shall be issued by the Municipality at the request of the interested party.
i. Concession: Public contract between the Municipality and the concessionaire, which grants the latter the right of land use on a plot within the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone, specifically in the restricted zone (zona restringida) (150 meters), not including the public zone (50 meters in front of the coastal sector).
j. Concessionaire: Legal entity – natural or juridical person – that holds a concession right in the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone.
k. Conservation: In urban planning, it is the action that, in accordance with the provisions of Urban Development Plans, is oriented towards maintaining ecological balance, the good condition of material works (buildings, monuments, plazas, and parks), and in general, everything that constitutes the historical, cultural, and social heritage of population centers.
l. Construction: Any structure that is fixed or incorporated into the land: it includes any building, reconstruction, remodeling, or expansion work that implies permanence.
m. Net density: This shall be understood as the ratio of inhabitants divided by the total area of occupied land, previously deducting road surfaces.
n. Density: Consists of the number of temporary or permanent residents per unit area (in this case, the estimated unit area is the hectare).
o. Right-of-way: It is the measurement of the public use zone, taken between the demarcation lines established by the MOPT, the corresponding municipality, or a regulatory plan.
p. Buildings: All those works intended for habitation, work, recreation, tourism, etc.
q. Hotel: It is a type of establishment with a minimum of twenty rooms, or more according to the category that corresponds to it, that provides lodging service for a daily rate, as well as food at the client's choice. It must occupy the totality of a building or an absolutely independent part thereof, with dependencies that constitute a homogeneous whole, with entrances, hallways, stairs, and elevators for the exclusive use of the establishment. Its sustainable character indicates an adequate relationship with its surroundings and conservationist solutions for the disposal of waste, wastewater (aguas servidas), etc.
r. Violator: Individual, legal entity, or any government agency that fails to comply with this Zoning Regulation.
s. Infrastructure: Urban services and installations, such as: roads. drainages, aqueducts, sewers, electricity, telephony, and other similar ones.
t. Lot: A parcel of land of any size, whether granted in concession or privately owned.
u. Number of floors: Must be understood as total floors or total or partial coverage of the floor area (mezzanine counts as one floor).
v. Occupancy: Consists of the percentage of land that can be covered by built areas, habitable or not, such as access ways, parking lots, pools, parks, and other non-natural covers; the internal green areas are considered residual areas not included in the occupancy percentage, and must be used for gardens, lakes, fruit trees, ornamental plants, etc.
w. Owner: Is the person(s), company(ies), or agency(ies) that holds title to property on lands adjacent to the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone.
x. Protection: It is that area in which urban works are subject to restrictions.
y. Forestry regime: Set of provisions of a legal, economic, and technical nature, established by the Forestry Law (Ley Forestal) and its regulations, decrees, and resolutions derived from its application, which regulates the conservation, protection, and rational use of forests and forestry lands.
z. Tourist Residence: Construction for vacation or permanent residence, which is integrated with the surrounding environment and where relevant provisions are taken to minimize the impact on the land.
aa. Setbacks: Open, unbuilt spaces between a structure and the boundaries of the respective property.
bb. Sustainable Tourism: Land use characterized by maintaining an adequate human-environment-sustainability relationship, both in natural history, adventure, or similar activities, as well as in the relationship between buildings and the sustaining environment.
cc. Urbanization: Provision of infrastructure works to a piece of land required for the construction of buildings.
dd. Conditional use: Is that which, even though not the most recommendable for the conditions of the land, does not generate conflict with the permitted uses. This use may be allowed on a piece of land, with prior special authorization from the Municipality and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), through a certificate.
ee. Conflicting use: Is that which does not conform to the zoning indicated in the Regulatory Plan. Conflicting uses are not permitted under any condition.
ff. Permitted use: Is that use of the property or lot, for which the concessionaire has the possibility of using their land without further restrictions than those indicated herein, and after completing the processing of the construction permits required by the Municipality.
gg. Use: Utilization for private benefit of areas or properties.
hh. Public road: spaces intended for vehicle or pedestrian traffic.
ii. Single-family dwelling: Is the building equipped with habitable areas intended to house a single family.
jj. Zoning: Is the division of a territory into use zones, for the purposes of its rational development.