PD 1096: NBC RULE 8: LIGHT AND VENTILATION (yard, court, setback)

1.2

all inner courts shall be connected to a street or yard, either by a passageway with a minimum width of _ meters or by a door through a room or rooms.

courts

yards shall be subject to the same basic requirements as _.

court

an occupied space between he faces of the building lines and a yard or another court, free, open and unobstructed from the ground upward.

paved

as a yard performs a vital environmental function because of its exposed soil and/or plant cover (surface water percolation, light/heat absorption, etc.), it shall preferable not be _.

2

every court shall have a width of not less than _ meters for 1 or 2 storey buildings.

1

fences made of wrought or galvanized iron bars and the like with solid masonry zocalo, if any, but not higher than _ meters shall be allowed

1.5, 3

however, if the court is treated as a yard or vice versa, this may be reduced to not less than _ meters in cluster living units such as quadruplexes, row-houses and the like, with adjacent courts with an area of not less than _ sqm.

fronts

in the case of all classes of corner lots, both sides shall be treated as _ of lot.

irregularly

_____-shaped lots such as triangular lots and the like, who courts may be also triangular in shape may be exempted from having a minimum width of not less than what is required.

open court

a court bound on 3 sides by building lines with 1 side bounded by another open space whether public or private.

through court

a court bounded by 2 opposite sides by building lines with the other opposite sides bounded by other open spaces whether public or private.

inner court

a court bounded on all sides or around its periphery by building lines

firewall

a form of abutment where no absolutely no form of permitted opening, whether temporary or permanent or operable or inoperable is allowed on it.

abutment

a form of semi-permanent or permanent structure constructed along a property line, usually of masonry or reinforced concrete or other fire-rated material.

courtyard

a portion of the yard for which the permitted limit of paving/hardscaping shall not exceed 50% of the area of the yard.

1

a vent well with a clear width of _ m is the only permitted opening in an abutment or firewall.

TOSL

a yard may be considered part of the _, provided that it abuts a permanent public open space without any separation between them which obstructs the free flow of light and ventilation.

2

minimum horizontal dimension of said courts and yards shall not be less than _ meters.

r-5

mixed-use buildings/structures in __ lots shall be considered a commercial use or occupancy if a substantial percentage of the GFA is commercial

hardscaped

paved

2

provided further, that the separation walls or fences, if any, shall not be higher than _ meters.

driveways

spaces for parking of a very temporary nature and hard and soft landscaping may be introduced for the front yard.

55

substantial percentage of the GFA is commercial

parking space

the front yard shall not be used as a _ as it is to be used as the transition area between the sidewalk or other similar portions of the rrow and the building/structure.

incremental setback

the horizontal distance between the outermost building/structure line of a lower floor and that of higher floor, wherein the outermost building line of higher floor is farther from the property line

setbacks

the horizontal distance measured 90 degrees from the outermost face of the building/structure to the property lines

front yard

the part of the required TOSL created by setbacks along RROW.

front of lot

the side of a lot on which the main pedestrian and vehicular access into the property shall be situated.

yard

the vacant space left between the outermost face of the building/structure and the property lines, e.g. front, rear, right and left side yards.