For the purposes of interpretation and application of this Regulation, the following terms shall have the meaning indicated:
- 1)Physical accessibility: Condition of the site, building, structure, portion thereof or means of egress that allows the movement and use of all persons according to the basic principles of Universal Design, in conditions of equality, safety, comfort and autonomy.
- 2)Exceptional access for residential use: That access which, by exception, enables the subdivision (fraccionamiento) of a property for residential use, within the urban quadrant (cuadrante urbano) or in the area of number of lots it serves.
- 3)Access by easement to parcels for agricultural, forestry, livestock or mixed use: That means of access to a parcel with agricultural, livestock, forestry or mixed use, resulting from a subdivision (fraccionamiento), which responds to the productive nature of the property it serves.
- 4)Sidewalk (acera): Strip of land within the right-of-way that extends from the property line to the outer line of the curb and gutter or green strip if one exists, and which is reserved for the transit of pedestrians. Must comply with the characteristics established in the Regulation to the Law of Equal Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Executive Decree No. 26831-MP, its amendments and the regulation replacing it.
- 5)Wastewater (aguas residuales): Water that has received a use and whose quality has been modified by the incorporation of contaminating agents.
- 6)Storm sewer system (alcantarillado pluvial): Public network of pipes used to collect and transport rainwater to its discharge point.
- 7)Sanitary sewer system (alcantarillado sanitario): System formed by main collectors, subcollectors, accessory works, pipes or conduits, generally closed, that convey ordinary wastewater, special wastewater, or both, to be treated and disposed of in compliance with the discharge quality standards established by the Regulation for the Discharge and Reuse of Wastewater, Executive Decree No. 33601-MINAE-S, its amendments or the regulation replacing it.
- 8)Alignment (alineamiento): Minimum physical distance or limit for the siting of a building in relation to public roads, waterways, streams, springs, lakes, lagoons, estuaries, springs (nacientes), maritime-terrestrial zone, railways, high-tension electric lines, special zones; it is issued by the competent entity.
- 9)Building height (altura de la edificación): Vertical distance measured from the minimum ground level in contact with the building, to the crown beam of the top level. Basements and semi-basements are not considered as part of said calculation.
- 10)Block layout (amanzanamiento): Size and shape of the blocks (manzanas) or group of lots.
- 11)Road widening (ampliación vial): Process by which the width of the right-of-way needs to be adjusted, in accordance with the provisions established by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation for national roads, or by the Municipality for local roads.
- 12)Front garden (antejardín): Distance between the property line and the building line, which must be reserved as a green area. It implies the issuance of an alignment (alineamiento) granted by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation or the Municipality, as applicable, which establishes a restriction on building, without the portion of the property thereby losing its condition of private property.
- 13)Construction area (área de construcción): The total sum of the areas of the different floors that constitute a building, excluding rooftops, open balconies and porticoes. Also known as floor area.
- 14)Expansion area of the urban quadrant (área de expansión del cuadrante urbano): The space comprised within a radius of up to 200.00 meters, measured from the end of the urban quadrant, in accordance with the demarcation to be carried out based on the provisions of Transitory Provision IV of this Regulation.
- 15)Shelter area (área de resguardo): A sitting area that provides protection from sun and rain, which includes the roof structure, generally without perimeter walls; it must also include spaces for sitting.
- 16)Non-developable area (área no urbanizable): That area subject to restrictions for subdivision (fraccionamiento) or urban development, such as: established reserves, hazard zones according to the Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgo y Atención de Emergencia, easements (servidumbres) and alignments (alineamientos) established by competent entities.
- 17)Previously urbanized area (área previamente urbanizada): All those urban developments where the dedication of public areas has been duly approved and received by the municipality.
- 18)Urban area (área urbana): The territorial scope of development of a population center. It includes the urban quadrant or any other city system developed radially or polygonally. It may be located within or outside the Gran Área Metropolitana.
- 19)Developable area (área urbanizable): That area not subject to restrictions, suitable for the development of subdivisions (fraccionamientos) and urban developments. It comprises, according to its type, roadway areas, lots, playgrounds (juegos infantiles), parks and community facilities.
- 20)Areas subject to urban control (áreas sujetas a control urbanístico): Administrative territorial circumscription, whose delimitation corresponds to the application radius of a regulatory plan. In the absence of a regulatory plan, it is the area subject to monitoring and supervision regarding compliance with the set of urban limitations established in the current regulations.
- 21)Total area of the property (área total del predio): Area indicated on the cadastral map that corresponds to the developable area and the non-developable area.
- 22)Forest (bosque): Native or autochthonous ecosystem, intervened or not, regenerated by natural succession or other forestry techniques, occupying a surface area of 2 or more hectares, characterized by the presence of mature trees of different ages, species and varied sizes, with 1 or more canopies covering more than 70% of that surface and where there are more than 60 trees per hectare of 15 or more centimeters in diameter measured at breast height, as established in the Forest Law (Ley Forestal), Law No. 7575, or the regulation replacing it.
- 23)Roadway (calzada): Part of the right-of-way intended for vehicular traffic, comprised between curbs, ditches or drainage channels.
- 24)Marginal streets or roads (calles o carreteras marginales): All those roads adjacent and generally parallel to restricted-access roads, which allow entry to the latter at intersections with the road. At the discretion of the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation for national roads, or the respective Municipality for local streets, any special, national or regional road may require marginal streets for access to lots fronting it.
- 25)Local streets (calles locales): Public roads included within the quadrant of an urban area, not classified as urban crossings of the Red Vial Nacional. Public roads within an urban development are local streets.
- 26)Neighborhood roads (caminos vecinales): Public roads that provide direct access to farms and other rural economic activities; they connect hamlets and towns with the Red Vial Nacional, and are characterized by having low traffic volumes and high proportions of short-distance local trips. They are not classified by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation as highways, nor by the municipal government as urban streets. They are subject to the primary road standards of this Regulation.
- 27)Wearing course (capa de rodamiento): Upper layer of the roadway that allows for the safe and comfortable vehicular traffic.
- 28)Restricted-access highways (carreteras de acceso restringido): Public roads defined as such, on which access to adjoining properties is only permitted for vehicle entry and exit, at intersections or at other points in the case of exceptions contemplated in the Regulation of Restricted-Access Highways, Executive Decree No. 35586-MOPT and its amendments or the regulation replacing it. On these roads, access to adjoining properties is permitted via marginal streets or roads.
- 29)Population center (centro de población): Any locality that, upon being occupied by a population, experiences urban growth through the construction of dwellings and public works.
- 30)Cadastral Certificate (Certificado Catastral): Document issued by the Registro Inmobiliario, whereby the information contained in the cadastral map, made official by executive decree, is certified. The information it contains is literal, numerical as well as graphic, allowing for easy interpretation by the user.
- 31)Land-use certificate (Certificado de uso de suelo): Document issued by the municipality that certifies the conformity of the use of a property, through the use of the physical structure settled on or incorporated into it, or both, regarding type, location, form and intensity and the possibility of its utilization.
- 32)Certifier of Conforming Soil Use (Certificador de Uso Conforme del Suelo): Professional registered with the Colegio de Ingenieros Agrónomos de Costa Rica, authorized and accredited by the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock to conduct studies of soil use, management and conservation as established by the Law on Use, Management and Conservation of Soils, Law No. 7779 or the regulation replacing it.
- 33)Coverage (cobertura): The horizontal projection of a structure or the area of a lot covered by such structure.
- 34)Residential Complex (Conjunto Residencial): The development of urbanizations that includes, in addition to the development of properties through the opening of roads and provision of services, the construction of housing units.
- 35)Road continuity (continuidad vial): Process of geometric design whereby the proposed road layout for an urban development or residential complex integrates continuously with the existing road network.
- 36)Urban control (control urbanístico): Monitoring and supervision regarding compliance with the set of urban limitations established in the current regulations.
- 37)Urban quadrant (cuadrante urbano): The urban area or territorial scope of development of a population center, where the majority of goods and services, the road structure and its immediate area of influence are located; urban quadrants are located within urban districts. For the purposes of the application of Article 40 of the Urban Planning Law, the quadrant of the city is considered the urban quadrant.
- 38)Density (densidad): Ratio of the number of inhabitants per hectare on a surface designated for residential use.
- 39)Right-of-way (derecho de vía): That area or surface of land, owned by the State, intended for the use of a road, including the roadway, green areas and sidewalks (aceras), with adjacent areas used for all complementary installations and works. This area is delimited on both sides by the boundaries of the adjoining properties at their property line.
- 40)Geometric Design (diseño geométrico): Consists of situating the layout of a highway or street on a property.
- 41)Site design (diseño de sitio): Basic information about an urban development or residential complex project included on a sheet, containing the distribution of lots, indication of accesses, public areas, contour lines at every meter, name and type of project, location, adjoining properties, frontage and depth of lots, building line, ramps, encumbrances on the property, road widening, details of sidewalks (aceras), pavements, typical curve, cross-sections of streets, dimensioning the protection areas defined in the Forest Law (Ley Forestal), Law No. 7575, its amendments or the regulation replacing it; it also contains the numbered lots, streets with number or name and other elements. It also includes the area table according to the type of project, and a table with the requirements of the current regulatory plan.
- 42)Availability of water supply service (Disponibilidad de servicio para abastecimiento de agua): Real and current, not future or potential, existence of the necessary works and infrastructure and sufficient water supply capacity to meet the service needs of a determined population.
- 43)Urban District (Distrito Urbano): The administrative territorial circumscription whose delimitation corresponds to the application radius of a Regulatory Plan. Within an urban district lies the urban quadrant and its expansion area. In the absence of a regulatory plan, the urban district is any one declared as such by the INVU, in accordance with Transitory Provision II of the Urban Planning Law, Law No. 4240.
- 44)Exception for subdivision for residential use (excepción de fraccionamiento para uso residencial): Subdivision (fraccionamiento) whereby it is impossible to divide a property into lots with direct access to the public road, so access is provided through an exceptional access for residential use.
- 45)Community facilities (facilidades comunales): Areas of public use within a subdivision for urban development purposes (fraccionamiento con fines urbanísticos), an urban development, or a residential complex, destined for the construction of community, educational, health, recreational, charitable infrastructure, or other public-use activities, as determined by the Concejo Municipal.
- 46)Farm (finca): The property registered in the Registro Inmobiliario as a legal unit, according to the Regulation to the National Cadastre Law, Executive Decree No. 34331-J, and its amendments or the regulation replacing it.
- 47)Subdivider (fraccionador): Owner of a property where a subdivision (fraccionamiento) takes place.
- 48)Subdivision (fraccionamiento): The division of any property for the purpose of selling, transferring, negotiating, distributing, exploiting or using separately the resulting parcels; it includes both partitions by judicial or extrajudicial adjudication, location of undivided rights and mere segregations under the same owner, as well as those situated in urban developments or new constructions that are of interest to the control of the formation and urban use of real estate.
- 49)Subdivision for urban development purposes (fraccionamiento con fines urbanísticos): Any subdivision (fraccionamiento) carried out facing an existing public street, located outside an urban quadrant (cuadrante urbano) or a previously urbanized area. All subdivisions (fraccionamientos) consisting of 8 or more lots, and whose total area is equal to or greater than 900 m², shall be approved (visados) by the INVU and the municipality, in that order respectively. Those subdivisions (fraccionamientos) of fewer than 8 lots shall be approved (visados) only by the corresponding Municipality. The minimum areas of the lots must respect the provisions of article 20 of this regulation.
- 50)Subdivision of parcels for agricultural, livestock, forestry or mixed purposes (fraccionamiento de parcelas con fines agrícolas, pecuarios, forestales o mixto): Any subdivision (fraccionamiento) having access through an agricultural, livestock or forestry easement (servidumbre).
- 51)Simple subdivision (fraccionamiento simple): Any subdivision (fraccionamiento) carried out facing an existing public street, located within an urban quadrant or a previously urbanized area.
- 52)Access strip (franja de acceso): Any strip that serves to access the interior lot resulting from a subdivision (fraccionamiento) with a frontage less than the standard; its area forms part of the interior property.
- 53)Green strip (franja verde): Grassed and tree-planted area located within the right-of-way. It may be located between the roadway and the sidewalk (acera) or between the sidewalk (acera) and the property line.
- 54)Municipal Government (Gobierno Municipal): Deliberative body called Concejo, composed of the council members (regidurías) determined by law, in addition, a mayor (alcalde) and their respective substitute, all popularly elected.
- 55)Infiltration (infiltración): Disposal of wastewater into the subsoil.
- 56)Agricultural infrastructure (infraestructura agropecuaria): Any structure or installation placed on agricultural, livestock, forestry or mixed parcels, such as warehouses, stables, farm-worker houses, greenhouses, wastewater treatment plants, biodigesters, ponds, water reservoirs, corrals, dairy barns, milking parlors, feedlot facilities, pigsties, poultry farms, farms dedicated to other minor livestock species, silos, drinking troughs, fences, irrigation and drainage works, areas for receipt, classification, cleaning, dry or refrigerated storage and packing of primary agricultural products; internal roads and livestock walkways; whose purpose is to support and facilitate agricultural activity. Thus provided in Article 8 of Executive Decree 37911-MAG of August 19, 2013, and its amendments.
56 bis) Agrotourism Infrastructure (infraestructura agroturística): any structure or installation that allows integrating primary agricultural activity with tourism experiences, promoting direct interaction between visitors and productive practices in the countryside, allowing visitors to experience, learn and participate in agricultural, livestock, forestry, or fishing tasks carried out on the property, as well as cultural, gastronomic, and educational manifestations typical of the rural environment, focused on agrotourism, provided that the agrotourism use is complementary to the main productive activity and compatible with the land use defined in the respective Regulatory Plan; it may contemplate agrotourism lodging in accordance with the Law to Promote Agrotourism, Law No. 10822.
(Thus added the previous subsection in Session No. 003 of January 22, 2026) 57) Property (inmueble): The physical unit, registered or not in the Registro Inmobiliario, according to the Regulation to the National Cadastre Law, Executive Decree No. 34331-J, and its amendments or the regulation that replaces it.
- 58)Inspection (inspección): The monitoring or attention that the responsible professional or group of professionals provides during the execution process of a work, to ensure that it is carried out in accordance with the best work standards, the construction drawings, the technical specifications and other documents forming part of the contract.
- 59)Island (isla): Space on paths, highways or streets with multiple lanes, dividing vehicular traffic. Generally, it has a curb, like a sidewalk (acera). It may be pedestrian with a concrete finish, or with vegetation.
- 60)Playgrounds (juegos infantiles): Areas of public use within a subdivision for urban development purposes (fraccionamiento con fines urbanísticos), an urban development, or a residential complex, containing equipment specifically intended for the play of infants.
- 61)Building line (línea de construcción): A line generally parallel to the property frontage line, which indicates the front setback distance of the building or required front garden (antejardín). It demarcates the permitted building limit within the property.
- 62)Property line (línea de propiedad): That which demarcates the limits of the property or specific lot; also known as boundary.
- 63)Lot (lote): Part into which a whole is divided for its distribution.
- 64)Exterior lot (lote exterior): Property resulting from a subdivision of lots with a frontage less than the standard, which must be located facing the public road, and comply with the minimum lot dimensions established in this Regulation.
- 65)Interior lot (lote interior): Property resulting from a subdivision of lots with a frontage less than the standard, which must be located on the inner part of the parent farm and which contains an access strip with a frontage less than the standard. Also known as a flag lot.
- 66)Official map of an urban development or residential complex (mapa oficial de urbanización o conjunto residencial): The drawing or set of drawings in which the exact position of the layouts of public roads and areas to be reserved for public use and community services, in an urban development or residential complex, is indicated. It must have the approval of the entities competent in the matter.
- 67)Municipality (municipalidad): State legal entity, with its own assets, and full legal personality and capacity to execute all types of acts and contracts necessary to fulfill its purposes.
- 68)Playground core (núcleo de juegos infantiles): Playground equipment that includes attractions for each age range.
- 69)Urban infrastructure works (obras de infraestructura urbana): Those that provide support for the development of activities and the functioning of cities, in a way that allows the use of urban land. The foregoing encompasses aspects such as road networks, electric power service, potable water, gas, sanitary sewer network, telecommunications, storm water management, solid waste evacuation, among others.
- 70)Forest cover (cobertura boscosa) parcel (parcela con cobertura boscosa): Cadastral unit represented by a minimum portion of land covered with forest (bosque), as established in the Forest Law, Law No. 7575.
- 71)Agricultural, livestock, or forestry parcel (parcela agrícola, pecuaria o forestal): Complete physical unit represented by a minimum portion of land, where a primary agricultural, livestock, forestry, or mixed activity is carried out, consisting of land arranged for the production of plant or animal products and including areas dedicated to fallow land and river and stream protection zones, resulting from a planned agricultural, livestock, forestry, or mixed subdivision process from a parent farm.
- 72)Park (parque): Tree-planted and grassed areas of public use within a subdivision for urban development purposes (fraccionamiento con fines urbanísticos), an urban development, or a residential complex, destined for community recreation, rest, and beautification.
- 73)Urban Planning (planificación urbana): The continuous and integral process of analysis and formulation of plans and regulations on urban development, aimed at ensuring the safety, health, comfort, and well-being of the community.
- 74)Survey plan (plano de agrimensura): The physical plan or electronic format plan that graphically and mathematically represents a property, which complies with the standards established by the Regulation to the National Cadastre Law, Executive Decree No. 34331-J, and its amendments or the regulations that replace it.
- 75)Cadastral plan (plano catastrado): The survey plan, physical or in electronic format, that has been registered with the National Cadastre and whose effects are defined in the Regulation to the National Cadastre Law, Executive Decree No. 34331-J, and its amendments or the regulations that replace it.
- 76)Regulatory Plan (Plan Regulador): The local planning instrument that defines, in a set of plans, maps, regulations, and any other graphic document or supplement, the development policy and plans for population distribution, land uses, circulation routes, public services, community facilities, and construction, conservation, and rehabilitation of urban areas.
- 77)Wastewater treatment plant (planta de tratamiento de aguas residuales): Set of infrastructure, equipment, and other elements necessary to execute the wastewater treatment processes, including ordinary type, special type, and infiltration contributions; it includes special or non-conventional treatments required to comply with the wastewater discharge quality. It also includes the correct disposal of the waste generated from each treatment unit, according to national legislation and applicable technical regulations.
- 78)Property (predio): Portion formed by one or several contiguous parcels, interdependent among themselves, and which, located in a single province, belongs to one or several owners or possessors.
- 79)Budget (presupuesto): Detail of the calculation that the responsible professional performs to determine the value of a work at market price. Said calculation must include the breakdown of the different work units and their corresponding direct costs, as well as indirect ones.
- 80)Responsible professional (profesional responsable): Those who are authorized and incorporated into the Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica, and have the powers and responsibilities set forth in the Construction Law No. 833, the Organic Law of the Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y Arquitectos No. 3663 and its amendments or the regulations that replace it, as well as other regulations determined by the respective Professional Association, are considered responsible professionals in engineering and architecture.
- 81)Owner (propietario): Natural or legal person who exercises dominion over real estate through public deed.
- 82)Infiltration test (prueba de infiltración): Procedure to evaluate the amount of water that penetrates the soil in a given time interval, and thus define the permeability of the soil and the transit of contaminants from the surface to the aquifers.
- 83)Grade line (rasante): Line that represents, in elevation, the surface of a road, bridge, or work in general, and that normally coincides with its longitudinal axis.
- 84)Cantonal Road Network (Red Vial Cantonal): Its administration corresponds to the municipalities. It will be constituted by the following roads, not included by the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes within the National Road Network: a. Local roads (caminos vecinales): Public roads that provide direct access to farms and other rural economic activities; they connect hamlets and towns with the National Road Network and are characterized by having low traffic volumes and high proportions of short-distance local trips. b. Local streets (calles locales): Public roads included within the quadrant of an urban area, not classified as urban crossings of the National Road Network. c. Unclassified roads (caminos no clasificados): Public roads not classified within the categories described above, such as bridle paths, footpaths, trails, which provide access to very few users, who bear the costs of maintenance and improvement.
- 85)National Road Network (Red Vial Nacional): Its administration corresponds to the Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes, which will define it according to the requirements determined for that purpose by the Executive Branch, by way of agreement. This network will be constituted by the following classes of public roads: a. Primary roads (carreteras primarias): Network of trunk routes, to serve as corridors, characterized by relatively high traffic volumes and with a high proportion of international, interprovincial, or long-distance trips. b. Secondary roads (carreteras secundarias): Routes that connect important canton capitals—not served by primary roads—as well as other centers of population, production, or tourism, that generate a considerable number of interregional or intercantonal trips. c. Tertiary roads (carreteras terciarias): Routes that serve as traffic collectors for primary and secondary roads, and that constitute the main roads for trips within a region, or between important districts.
- 86)Lot regularity (regularidad del lote): Refers to the shape of the perimeter of a lot, property, or farm, with respect to a regular geometric figure formed by the smallest circumscribed rectangle.
- 87)Fill (relleno): The material used to replace, or the act of replacing material removed during construction. Material placed or the act of placing material adjacent to structures.
- 88)Urban Renewal (Renovación Urbana): The improvement process aimed at eradicating slum areas and rehabilitating urban areas in decay or in a defective state, and the conservation of urban areas and the prevention of their deterioration.
- 89)Repair (reparación): Renewal of any part of a work, to leave it in conditions equal to or better than the original ones.
- 90)Setbacks (retiros): The unbuilt open spaces between a structure and the boundaries of the respective property.
- 91)Front setback (retiro frontal): Term equivalent to front yard (antejardín).
- 92)Side setback (retiro lateral): Non-buildable open space between the side boundary of the property and the nearest part of the building.
- 93)Rear setback (retiro posterior): Non-buildable open space between the rear boundary of the property and the nearest part of the building.
- 94)Public services (servicios públicos): Those services that allow meeting the needs of the population, such as lighting, potable water, cleaning, health, telephone, and transportation, administered by the State or by private companies.
- 95)Indispensable public services (servicios públicos indispensables): Those that provide the service of availability of potable water and electric service.
- 96)Basic traditional telephone service (servicio telefónico básico tradicional): That which has as its purpose the communication of users, through circuit-switching exchanges for voice and data, on a predominantly wired network, with generalized access to the population; associated value-added services are excluded.
- 97)Potable water supply system (sistema de abastecimiento de agua potable): The set of water resource sources and the infrastructure and equipment for its collection, treatment, and distribution, which includes: treatment plants, storage tanks, adduction and conduction lines, pumping stations, wells, distribution networks, hydrants, hydrometers, and other elements necessary for the supply of potable water to a population center.
- 98)Wastewater treatment system (sistema de tratamiento de aguas residuales): Set of physical, chemical, and biological processes whose purpose is to improve the quality of wastewater. It can be carried out by means of the treatment systems established in the Regulation for the Approval of Wastewater Treatment Systems, Executive Decree No. 39887-S-MINAE, its amendments, or regulations that replace it.
- 99)Stormwater system (sistema pluvial): Set of pipeline lines or conduits, open or closed, and accessory works that convey water from precipitation to natural disposal sites. It is known as a storm sewer system.
100) Soil (suelo): Any unconsolidated material composed of different solid particles, with included gases or liquids. In construction, the word is normally applied to the ground supporting the works.
101) Repair shops (talleres de reparación): Any workshop intended for the repair of electrical appliances, footwear, clothing, and bicycles. Cabinetmaking, carpentry, or automotive mechanic workshops are not considered within this category.
102) Tank (tanque): Elevated or underground deposit for storing a liquid, other than flammable, corrosive materials, or other types of hazardous goods.
103) Septic tank (tanque séptico): Unit that receives ordinary or special wastewater to provide primary treatment consisting of phase separation.
104) Housing unit (unidad habitacional): Any building intended for a dwelling.
105) Urbanization (urbanización): The subdivision (fraccionamiento) and development of land for urban purposes, through the opening of streets and provision of services.
106) Commercial-use urbanization (urbanización de uso comercial): Any urbanization where all the resulting lots are intended for commercial activities of goods and services.
107) Industrial-use urbanization (urbanización de uso industrial): Any urbanization where all the resulting lots are intended for material operations executed for obtaining, transforming, or transporting one or several industrial products.
108) Residential-use urbanization (urbanización de uso residencial): Any urbanization where the resulting lots are intended for housing; in addition, a number of commercial and private service lots are assigned to meet the need for this type of services in the urbanization.
109) Mixed-use urbanization (urbanización de uso mixto): Any urbanization where the resulting lots simultaneously include residential, commercial, or industrial areas.
110) Land use (uso de suelo): The utilization of a terrain, of the physical structure settled or incorporated on it, or of both cases, regarding the class, form, or intensity of its use.
111) Mixed use (uso mixto): Utilization of a property, of the physical structure settled or incorporated on it, which is intended, in addition to residential use, for commercial or industrial use; the uses must be compatible with zoning. In the case of parcels for agricultural, livestock, or forestry purposes, it is the utilization of a property with more than one of these uses.
112) V:H: Relationship between the Vertical and Horizontal distance, understood as the slope that gives rise to an inclined surface.
113) Public road (vía pública): Any land of public domain and common use, which by provision of the administrative authority is intended for free transit in accordance with the planning laws and regulations and which is in fact already intended for that public use. According to their class, public roads will also be intended to ensure the aeration and lighting conditions of the buildings that border them; to facilitate access to adjoining properties; to the installation of any pipeline, device, apparatus, or accessory belonging to a public work or intended for a public use.
114) Approval (visado): Action of recognizing or examining an instrument, document, or certification to grant approval.
115) Dwelling (vivienda): Any fixed or mobile premises or enclosure, built, converted, or arranged, which is used for housing purposes for persons, permanently or temporarily.
116) Single-family dwelling (vivienda unifamiliar): Building provided with habitable areas intended to shelter a single family.
117) Zoning (zonificación): The division of a territorial circumscription into use zones, for the purpose of its rational development.
(As amended through regular session No. 6462 of August 27, 2020)