a. Access: A road onto which a lot or property fronts.
b. Maximum height: Measured from the ground to the ridge point of the building.
c. Street furniture (Amueblado): A set of urban elements, such as benches, trash cans, tables, posts, signs, and labels that support services for user comfort.
d. Green Area (Área Verde): Grassed or wooded open areas, for public or communal use, intended for recreation and ornamentation, or sections of land where plant cover must be conserved and recovered.
e. Cabin (Cabina): An establishment that provides lodging service for a daily or monthly rate with independent units, having one or more bedrooms, a private bathroom, kitchen, independent entrance from the outside, and parking for guests' vehicles.
f. Use Certification (Certificación de Uso): A document establishing the possibility of using a portion of land for the construction of works covered in this Regulation. Said certificate shall be issued by the Municipality of Osa at the request of the interested party.
g. Commercial: Space used for the establishment of commercial services for users of the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone; it may be supermarkets, shops, or similar.
h. Concession: A public contract between the Municipality of Osa and the concessionaire, granting the latter the right to use the land on a lot within the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone, specifically in the restricted zone (150 meters), not including the Public Zone (50 meters facing the coastal sector).
i. Concessionaire: A legal or natural person holding a concession right in the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone.
j. Conservation: In urban planning, action aimed at maintaining the 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.
k. Construction: Any structure that is fixed or incorporated into land; it includes any building, reconstruction, remodeling, or expansion work implying permanence.
l. Density: The number of temporary or permanent residents per unit area (in this case, the estimated unit area is the hectare).
m. Net density: This shall be understood as the ratio of inhabitants divided by the total land area occupied, excluding road surfaces.
n. Right-of-way: The measurement of the public use zone, taken between the demarcation lines established by the MOPT, the corresponding Municipality, or a Regulatory Plan.
o. Building (Edificación): All works intended for habitation, work, recreation, tourism, etc.
p. Hotel: A type of establishment with a minimum of twenty rooms, according to its corresponding category, which provides lodging service for a daily rate, as well as food, at the client's choice. It must occupy the entirety of a building or an absolutely independent part thereof, with dependencies constituting a homogeneous whole, with entrances, hallways, stairs, and elevators for the exclusive use of the establishment.
q. Offender (Infractor): A natural or legal person or any government agency that does not comply with this Zoning Regulation.
r. Infrastructure: Urban services and facilities such as: roads, drainage, aqueducts, sewer systems, electricity, telephone, and other similar services.
s. Lot: A parcel of land of any size, whether granted in concession or under private ownership.
t. Number of floors: This must be understood as total floors with total or partial coverage of the floor area (mezzanine counts as one floor).
u. Coverage (Ocupación): The percentage of land that can be covered by built areas, habitable or not, such as accesses, parking areas, swimming pools, and other non-natural covers; internal green areas are considered residual areas not included in the coverage percentage and must be used for gardens, lakes, fruit trees, ornamentals, etc.
v. Owner (Propietario): The person(s), company(ies), or agency(ies) holding title to lands adjacent to the Maritime-Terrestrial Zone.
w. Protection: An area in which urban works are subject to restrictions.
x. Tourist residence: A construction for vacationing or permanent residence, integrated with the surrounding environment where provisions are taken to minimize the impact on the land.
y. Setbacks (Retiros): Open unbuilt spaces between a structure and the boundaries of the respective property.
z. Tourist Urbanization: The provision to a piece of land of the infrastructure works required for the construction of buildings intended for tourist residential use (rental houses or apartments).
aa. Conditional use: A use that, while not the most recommended for the land conditions, does not conflict with permitted uses. This use may be allowed on a piece of land, subject to special authorization from the Municipality and the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT), via a certificate.
ab. Conflicting use: A use that does not conform to the zoning indicated in the Regulatory Plan. Conflicting uses are not permitted under any condition.
ac. Permitted use: The use of the property or lot for which the concessionaire has the possibility to designate their land without any further restrictions than those indicated herein and upon prior processing of the construction permits required by the Municipality of Osa.
ad. Use: Private utilization of areas or properties.
ae. Public road: Spaces intended for the circulation of vehicles or pedestrians.
af. Zoning (Bonificación): The division of a territory into use zones, for the purposes of its rational development.