compilation laws Flashcards
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A public way intended to serve both pedestrian and emergency vehicles, and also access to lots, both end always connecting to streets.
ALLEY
A parcel of land bounded on the sides by streets or alleys or pathways or other natural or manmade features, and occupied by or intended for buildings,
BLOCK
A single-family attached dwelling containing three or more separate living units grouped closely together to form relatively compact structures.
CLUSTER HOUSING
Shall mean the HumanSettlements Regulatory Commission.
COMMISSION
Facilities or structures intended facilities to serve common needs and for the benefit of the community, such as: neighborhood/ multi-purpose center, health center, drugstore, school, livelihood center, etc.
COMMUNITY
A building designed or used as residence for one or more families.
DWELLING
A dwelling for one family which is completely surrounded by permanent open spaces, with independent access, services, and use of land.
Single-Family Detached
A dwelling containing two or more separate living units each of which is separated from another by party or lot lines walls and provided with independent access, services, and include duplexes, cluster housing.
Duplex/Single Attached
A dwelling on one lot containing separate living units for 3 or more families usually provided with common access, services, and use of land.
Multi-Family Dwelling
A type of housing project provided socialized housing to moderately low income families with lower interest rates and longer amortization periods.
ECONOMIC AND
Any wall which separate two abutting living units so as to resist the spread of fire. Such wall shall be of masonry construction e.g., cement hollow blocks, bricks, reinforced concrete, etc. at least “4” thick, and shall extend throughout the whole length of the living units and from the lowest portion of the wall adjoining the living units up to the point just below the roof covering of purlins.
FIREBLOCK
is the time period length of time a material can rating withstand being burned which may be one-hour, 2-hours, 3-hours, 4-hours, etc.
Fire resistive time period.
A fire block with extends vertically from the lowest portion of the wall which adjoins the 2 living units up to a minimum height of 0.30 meter above the highest portion of the roof attached to it; the fire wall shall also extend horizontally up to a minimum distance of 0.30 meter beyond the outermost edge of the abutting living units.
FIRE WALL
That part or end of a lot which abuts a street.
FRONTAGE
A dwelling, or portion thereof, providing complete living facilities for one family, including provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, eating, bathing and toilet facilities and laundry facilities, the same as a single family-dwelling.
LIVING UNIT
A portion of a subdivision or any parcel of land intended as a unit for transfer of ownership or for building development.
LOT/PLOT
A wall used only by the party upon whose lot the wall is located, erected at a line separating two parcels of land each of which is a separate real estate entity.
LOT LINE WALL
The purpose for which a building is used or intended to be used. The term shall also include the building or room housing such use. Change of occupancy is not intended to include change of tenants or proprictors.
OCCUPANCY
Shall refer to areas allocated for the following purposes:
PARTY WALL
Circulation
Community facilities Park/Playground
Easements
Courts
OPEN SPACE
A wall used jointly by two parties under easement agreement, erected upon a line separating two parcels of land each of which is a separate real estate.
Party Wall
That portion of the subdivision which is generally not built on and intended for passive or active recreation.
PARK/PLAYGROUND
A public way intended for pedestrian and which cuts across a block to provide access to adjacent streets or property with maximum length of 100 meters if connecting to roads and 50 meters if terminating in a dead end.
PATHWALK/FOOTPATH
A single-family attached dwelling containing three or more separate living units designed in such a way that they about each other at the sides, as in a row, and are separated from each other by party walls: provided with independent access, services, and use of land.
ROW HOUSE
Shall refer to the set of documents REQUIREMENTS required by the Commission for the processing and approval of economic and socialized housing projects including systems and procedures for the implementation and enforcement of BP 220.
TECHNICAL
