a. Temporary activities: Those that are carried out for periods of less than 30 days, such as activities called turnos, fairs, or patron saint festivities.
b. Alignment (Alineamiento): Minimum physical distance or limit for the placement of a building with respect to public roads, waterways, streams, springs, lakes, lagoons, estuaries, springs (nacientes), the maritime-terrestrial zone, railways, high-tension power lines, and special zones; issued by the competent entity.
c. Maximum building height: It is the maximum height allowed for a building according to the zone where it is located. It is measured from the main floor (lobby) to the level of the crown beam. Chimneys, parapets, window sills, elevator machine rooms, water tanks, mechanical elements, and recreational elements on the upper terraces will not be taken into account for the calculation.
d. Front yard (Antejardín): Area between the property line of cadastral origin and the building line fixed by the respective alignment, which supports a restriction on building, without thereby losing the condition of private property.
e. Minimum area: Minimum surface area allowed for lots resulting from a subdivision, development (urbanización), or lot condominium (condominio de lotes).
f. Urban area: The territorial scope of the development of a population center. It includes the urban quadrant or any other city system developed radially or polygonally.
g. Forest (Bosque): In accordance with Forest Law No. 7575 (Ley Forestal) and its reforms or the regulation that replaces it, it corresponds to a native or autochthonous ecosystem, intervened or not, regenerated by natural succession or other forestry techniques, that occupies an area of two or more hectares, characterized by the presence of mature trees of different ages, species, and varied size, with one or more canopies that cover more than seventy percent (70%) of that surface and where there are more than sixty trees per hectare of fifteen or more centimeters in diameter measured at breast height (DBH). Sectors formalized according to Executive Decree No. 36818 MINAET shall also be considered as forest.
h. Land use capacity (Capacidad de uso de la tierra): It is the optimal degree of use that a given area of land possesses, based on the qualification of its limitations for producing crops sustainably and for prolonged periods.
i. Country clubs (Clubes campestres): Centers for passive and active recreation, with facilities and installations for outdoor activities.
j. Maximum coverage: Area of a lot comprising the maximum horizontal projection of a structure, as well as paved spaces, spaces paved with cobblestones, or any material that hinders the infiltration of rainwater into the ground and that is intended for parking, access roads, swimming pools, tennis courts, and similar uses.
k. Commerce: Set of economic activities centered on the exchange, purchase, and sale of goods, and all kinds of lawful merchandise, properties, bonds, currencies, and others. Included are representative offices, commission agents, agencies, stockbrokers, banking institutions, insurance institutions, and financial establishments such as banking houses, exchange houses, credit finance companies, and the like; in general, anything involving any market transaction is commercial.
l. Horizontal condominium: Concordant with the Regulation to the Law Regulating Condominium Property, Decree No. 32303-MIVAH-MEIC-TUR or its reforms, for the purposes of this Regulation, horizontal condominium is understood as the modality wherein each condominium owner is the exclusive owner of their own land and the building constructed on it, and co-owner of the common areas.
m. Mixed condominium: Concordant with the Regulation to the Law Regulating Condominium Property, Decree No. 32303-MIVAH-MEIC-TUR or its reforms, for the purposes of this Regulation, these are those where vertical and horizontal condominiums may occur on the same parent property (finca matriz).
n. Vertical condominium: Concordant with the Regulation to the Law Regulating Condominium Property, Decree No. 32303-MIVAH-MEIC-TUR or its reforms, for the purposes of this Regulation, vertical condominium is understood as the modality whereby each condominium owner is the exclusive owner of part of the building composed of several floors and co-owner of all the land and buildings or installations of general use.
o. Condominium: Concordant with the Regulation to the Law Regulating Condominium Property, Decree No. 32303-MIVAH-MEIC-TUR or its reforms, for the purposes of this Regulation, a condominium is understood as a property susceptible to independent use by different owners, with common elements of an indivisible nature.
p. Lot condominiums: Concordant with the Regulation to the Law Regulating Condominium Property, Decree No. 32303-MIVAH-MEIC-TUR or its reforms, for the purposes of this Regulation, lot condominiums are understood as those where the subsidiary properties (fincas filiales) correspond to horizontal plots, which may be used for agricultural, industrial, livestock, tourist, commercial, residential, recreational purposes, and/or any other lawful purpose. They may be intended for the provision of services or for constructing buildings. In horizontal lot condominiums, each subsidiary property shall be called an individualized primary subsidiary property (finca filial primaria individualizada, FFPI).
q. Perennial crops: Vegetation characterized by being shrubby and/or arboreal in size and a vegetative cycle exceeding five years, including forest plantations.
r. Density: Relationship between the number of dwellings allowed per hectare.
s. Building: Construction intended for any activity, whether habitation, work, storage or protection of belongings, etc.
t. Environmental Impact Study: It is a document of a technical nature and interdisciplinary character, constituting an environmental assessment instrument, which the developer of an activity, work, or project must present prior to its execution and which is intended to predict, identify, assess, and correct the environmental impacts that certain actions may cause on the environment and to define the environmental viability (licencia) of the project, work, or activity subject to the study.
u. Minimum frontage: Minimum allowed frontage length for lots resulting from a subdivision, development, or lot condominium.
v. Frontage: Part of a property or plot that directly borders a public road, an easement (servidumbre) for agricultural, livestock, or mixed parcels, an exceptional residential access, or accesses of a lot condominium.
w. Potential Environmental Impact: Positive or negative latent environmental effect that the execution of an activity, work, or project would cause on the environment. It can be pre-established, taking as a reference the environmental impact caused by the generality of similar activities, works, or projects that are already in operation. The IAP also has classifications ranging from "Very Low", "Low", "Moderate-Low", "Moderate-High" to "High" impact.
x. Uncomfortable (Incómoda): Activities or establishments that, without being unhealthy or dangerous, generate manifest annoyance to the neighborhood or to the people who work in them, due to noise, vibrations, smoke, bad odors, perceptible changes in temperature, lights, dust, gases, humidity, or other nuisances.
y. Industry: Any place, uncovered or covered, intended for the manufacturing, handling, repair, transformation, or use of natural or artificial products. Included in this category are sites intended to receive or store artifacts, instruments or utensils, materials, and raw materials. Likewise, bus and freight transportation stations shall be considered as industrial activities or establishments for all legal purposes.
z. Telecommunications infrastructure: Elements intended to support one or more active elements of the telecommunications network, such as antennas and other equipment that may include other associated elements such as land, rooms or cabinets, electrical supply, air conditioners, among others.
aa. Unhealthy (Insalubre): Activities or establishments that, due to the nature of the work carried out in them or the conditions under which it is performed, may originate effects capable of threatening or harming the health of workers or the neighborhood, due to the materials used, manufactured, released, or waste.
bb. The Municipality: The Municipality of the canton of Paraíso.
cc. Minisúper: An establishment smaller than a supermarket where basic consumer goods are sold.
dd. Annoying (Molesta): Activities or establishments that, in the judgment of the Ministry of Health, generate discomfort to neighboring dwellings due to vibrations, changes in temperature, lights, dust, sparks, smoke or vapors, or odors.
ee. Very low potential environmental impact: Human activities that, by their nature, do not cause negative alteration to the environment and do not represent a deterioration of the environmental quality of the surroundings in general or of any of its components, nor affect the health of the population, because atmospheric emissions, wastewater discharges, ordinary and special waste management, and noise comply with the provisions established in current regulations. Additionally, hazardous products are not used, and no waste of this type is generated.
ff. Dangerous (Peligrosa): Activities or establishments that damage or can damage immediately and seriously the life of the workers who work in them or the neighborhood, either by the nature of their tasks or the materials used, manufactured, or waste, or by the storage of toxic, corrosive, flammable, or explosive substances.
gg. Pulpería: Store where everyday items are sold, mainly groceries and other household goods. For the purposes of this Regulation, it is also understood as a synonym for abastecedor.
hh. Sustainable Development Regulation: Legal instrument that serves as a basis for standardizing and guiding the environmental control and conditioning of the execution of development within the territory under study. With this mechanism, the aim is to achieve a balance between the environmental assessment process and the streamlining of procedures that the administrated parties must comply with before the State, in particular, by eliminating the repetition of procedures.
ii. Front setback (Retiro frontal): Term equivalent to front yard (antejardín).
jj. Side setback (Retiro lateral): Open, non-buildable space, comprised between the side boundary line and the closest part of the physical structure.
kk. Rear setback (Retiro posterior): Open, non-buildable space, comprised between the rear boundary line and the closest part of the physical structure.
ll. Setbacks: These are the open, non-built spaces comprised between a structure and the boundaries of the respective property.
mm. Environmental health risk: Probability that, during the development of an activity in an establishment, it will have a negative effect or impact on the health of people and the environment.
nn. Indispensable public services: Those that provide the service of drinking water availability and electric service.
oo. Services: That related to the paid provision of services by private organizations or individuals, to the private sector, the public sector, or both. For example, transportation, communications, private educational and leisure establishments, hotels and lodging of all types, vehicle establishments, agencies, representatives of foreign companies, barber shops and beauty or aesthetics establishments, and advertising agencies.
pp. Craft workshops or artisanal workshops (Talleres de artesanía o talleres artesanales): Activity for the individual production of articles for domestic use with hand tools, where there is direct sale of the products to the public, also characterized by having a very low potential environmental impact, including those developed in dwellings with a micro-enterprise category, that do not incorporate hazardous raw materials or substances in the production process, nor generate hazardous waste.
qq. Land use: Purpose or end given to a specific piece of land, according to the zoning established by the Regulatory Plan of the canton of Paraíso, subject to what each activity, current or planned for a property or lot, represents in functional terms.
rr. Environmental Viability (License): Represents the condition of harmonization or acceptable balance, from the point of view of environmental load, between the development and execution of an activity, work, or project and its potential environmental impacts, and the environment of the geographical space where it is intended to be implemented. From the administrative and legal point of view, it corresponds to the act by which the Environmental Impact Assessment process is approved.
ss. Multi-family home: It is the building conceived as an architectural unit with independent living areas, suitable for housing two or more families.
tt. Single-family home: It is the building provided with living areas intended to house a single family.
uu. Dwelling: Any location or enclosure, fixed or mobile, built, converted, or arranged, used for the purpose of housing people, permanently or temporarily.
vv. Zoning (Zonificación): It is the division of the territory into use zones, for the purpose of its rational development.