BUT EXCLUDING:

 COVERED AREAS USED FOR PARKING AND DRIVEWAYS, INCLUDING VERTICAL

PENETRATIONS IN PARKING FLOORS WHERE NO RESIDENTIAL OR OFFICE UNITS ARE PRESENT;

 UNCOVERED AREAS FOR AC COOLING TOWERS, OVERHEAD WATER TANKS, ROOF

DECKS LAUNDRY AREAS AND CAGES, WADING OR SWIMMING POOLS, WHIRLPOOLS OR JACUZZIS, GARDENS, COURTS OR PLAZAS.

55. Guard House – An accessory building or structure used by a security guard while on duty.

56. Heavy Industrial Zone (I 3) - a subdivision of an area principally for the following types of industries:

a. highly pollutive/non-hazardous b. highly pollutive/hazardous

c. highly pollutive/extremely hazardous d. pollutive/extremely hazardous

e. non-pollutive/exteremely hazardous

57. HIGH DENSITY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C 3) – AN AREA WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY INTENDED FOR REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTERS SUCH AS LARGE MALLS AND OTHER COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES WHICH ARE REGIONAL IN SCOPE OR WHERE MARKET ACTIVITIES GENERATE TRAFFIC AND REQUIRE UTILITIES AND SERVICES THAT EXTEND BEYOND LOCAL BOUNDARIES AND REQUIRES METROPOLITAN LEVEL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTATION. HIGH RISE HOTELS, SPORTS STADIUM OR SPORTS COMPLEXES ARE ALSO ALLOWABLE IN THIS ZONE.

58. High Density Residential Zone (R-3) – a subdivision of an area principally for dwelling/housing purposes with a density of 66 or more dwelling units per hectare.

59. HLRB/BOARD – SHALL MEAN THE HOUSING AND LAND USE REGULATORY BOARD.

60. Home Occupation – An occupation or business conducted within the dwelling unit.

61. Hospital – An institution providing health service, primarily for in-patient, and medical or physical care of the sick or the injured, including, as integral part thereof, such related facilities as laboratories, out-patient department, training facilities and staff offices.

62. Hotel, Apartment – an apartment house which may furnish dining room service and other services for the exclusive use of its tenant.

63. Innovative Design – Introduction and/or application of new/creative designs and techniques in development projects e.g. PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD), Newtown, etc.

64. Light Industrial Zone (I-1) – a subdivision of an area principally for the following types of industries:

a. non-pollutive/non-hazardous b. non-pollutive/hazardous c.

65. Line Building – The line formed by the intersection of the outer surface of the enclosing wall of the building and the surface of the ground.

66. Locational Clearance – a clearance issued to a project that is allowed under the provisions of this Zoning Ordinance as well as other standards, rules and regulations on land use.

67. Lodging House – any building or portion thereof, containing not more than five guests rooms which are used by not more than five guests where rent is paid by money, goods, labor or otherwise.

68. Lot – A parcel of land on which a principal building and its accessories are placed or maybe placed together with the required open space.

69. Lot, Corner - A lot situated at the junction of two or more streets forming an angle of not more than one hundred thirty -five degrees.

70. Lot, Depth of – The average horizontal distance between the front and the rear lot lines.

71. Lot Line – The line of demarcation between either public and private property.

72. Low Density Commercial Zone (C-1) – an area WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY principally for trade, services and business activities ordinarily referred to as the Central Business District.

73. Low Density Residential Zone (R-1) – an area WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY principally for dwelling/housing purposes with a density of 20 dwelling units and below per hectare.

74. Major Road – Road, street, boulevard, avenue, highway whether national, provincial, municipal or barangay which provide access to commercial, institutional and/or industrial areas or provide access between Municipality of Dasmarinas and any of its adjacent municipalities.

75. Manufacturing Industry – An industry which involved the chemical or mechanical transformation of inorganic products whether it is done in a factory or in the worker’s house.

76. Medium Density Commercial Zone (C-2) – an area WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY with quasi-trade business activities and service industries performing complementary/supplementary functions to principally commercial zone (CBD).

77. Medium Density Residential Zone (R-2) – an area WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY principally for dwelling/housing with a density of 21 to 65 dwelling units per hectare.

78. Medium Industrial Zone (1-2) – an area WITHIN A CITY OR MUNICIPALITY principally for the following types of industries:

a. pollutive/non-hazardous b. pollutive/hazardous

79. Mitigating Device – a means to grant relief in complying with certain provisions of the Ordinance.

80. Museum – A non-profit, non-commercial establishment operated as a repository, or a collection of natural, scientific, literary of cultural objects of interests such as works of art. This does not include the regular sale or distribution of the objects collected.

81. Non-Conforming Building – A building which does not conform with the regulation of the municipality where it is situated as to height, years requirement, lot area, and percentage of occupancy.

82. Non-Conforming Use – existing non-conforming uses/establishments in an area allowed to operate

inspire of the non-conformity to the provisions of the Ordinance subject to the conditions stipulated in the Zoning Ordinance.

83. Nursery/Day Care Center – A place where children are temporarily cared for and trained in the parents’

absence.

84. Open Space – An area retained with vegetation, either for the purposes of land resource and/or

conservation, utilization, recreation, or as buffer zones, to separate incompatible uses from one another and as land use control for expansion.