Rule Vii - Classification and General Requirements of All Buildings by Use or Occupancy
Rule Vii - Classification and General Requirements of All Buildings by Use or Occupancy
1. There are 10 Groups of Occupancies sub-divided into 25 Divisions. The accompanying matrix shows
the Groupings and Divisions and the corresponding uses. The final column indicates the Zoning
Classification.
a. Buildings proposed for construction shall be identified according to their use or the character of its
occupancy and shall be classified as follows:
Division 2- Residential building for the exclusive use of non-leasing occupants not
exceeding 10 persons including single-attached or duplex or townhouses, each
privately-owned; school dormitories (on campus); convents and monasteries;
military or police barracks/dormitories; pre-schools, elementary and high
schools, provided that they do not exceed 16 classrooms; outpatient clinics,
family planning clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostics clinics, medical and clinical
laboratories; branch library and museums; steam/dry cleaning outlets; party
needs and accessories (leasing of tables and chairs, etc.).
Group B Occupancies shall be multiple dwelling units including boarding or lodging houses,
hotels, apartment buildings, row houses, convents, monasteries and other similar building
each of which accommodates more than 10 persons.
Group C Occupancies shall be buildings used for school or day-care purposes, involving
assemblage for instruction, education, or recreation, and not classified in Group I or in
Division 1 and 2 or Group H Occupancies.
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iv. Group D – Institutional
Division 1 - Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria, jails, prisons, reformatories, and buildings
were personal liberties of inmates are similarly restrained.
Division 2 - Nurseries for full-time care of children under kindergarten age, hospitals,
sanitaria, nursing homes with non-ambulatory patients, and similar buildings
each accommodating more than five persons.
Division 3 - Nursing homes for ambulatory patients, homes for children of kindergarten age
or over, each accommodating more than five persons: Provided, that Group D
Occupancies shall not include buildings used only for private or family group
dwelling purposes.
Division 1- Gasoline filling and service stations, storage garages and boat storage
structures where no work is done except exchange of parts and maintenance
requiring no open flame, welding, or the use of highly flammable liquids.
Division 2- Wholesale and retail stores, office buildings, drinking and dining establishments
having an occupant load of less than one hundred persons, printing plants,
police and fire stations, factories and workshops using not highly flammable or
combustible materials and paint stores without bulk handlings.
Division 3- Aircraft hangars and open parking garages where no repair work is done
except exchange of parts and maintenance requiring no open flame, welding or
the use of highly flammable liquids.
Group F Occupancies shall include: ice plants, power plants, pumping plants, cold storage,
and creameries, factories and workshops using incombustible and non-explosive materials,
and storage and sales rooms for incombustible and non-explosive materials.
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Division 2- Storage and handling of flammable materials, dry cleaning plants using
flammable liquids; paint stores with bulk handling, paint shops and spray
painting rooms.
Division 3- Wood working establishments, planning mills and box factories, shops, factories
where loose combustible fibers or dust are manufactured, processed or
generated; warehouses where highly combustible materials is stored.
Division 1- Any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of less than 1000 in
the building.
Division 2- Any assembly building without stage and having an occupant load of 300 or
more in the building.
Division 3- Any assembly building without a stage and having an occupant load of less
than 300 in the building.
Division 4- Stadia, reviewing stands, amusement park structures not included within Group
I or in Division 1, 2, and 3 of this Group.
Group I Occupancies shall be any assembly building with a stage and an occupant load of
1000 or more in the building.
x. Group J - Accessory
Group J Occupancies shall include:
Division 1- Agricultural structures.
Division 2- Private garages, carports, fences over 1.80 meters high, tanks, swimming
pools and towers.
Division 3- Stages, platforms, pelota, tennis, badminton or basketball courts, tombs,
mausoleums, niches, aviaries, aquariums, zoo structures, banks and record
vaults
Other subgroupings or divisions within Groups A to J may be determined by the Secretary.
Any other occupancy not mentioned specifically in this Section, or about which there is any
question, shall be included in the Group which it most nearly resembles based on the
existing or proposed life and fire hazard.
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Table VII.1. Schedule of Principal, Accessory and Conditional Use/Occupancy of
Building/Structure
General USE U S E
Character of Zoning
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL Classification
Building/ Structure
Group A –
Residential
(Dwellings)
Division A-1 1. Indigenous family 1. Preparatory Residential R-1 -
(Residential schools, provided that a low-density
1. Customary accessory
building/ structure dwelling units they do not exceed residential zone,
uses incidental to any of
for exclusive use of three (3) classrooms characterized
the principal uses housed
single family and shall be located mainly by single-
2. Single-detached units in the same Division A-1
occupants) not less than 500 family, single
(or R-1 class)
meters from nearest detached
building/structure,
3. School or company staff existing school offering dwellings with the
provided that such
similar course and are usual community
accessory uses shall not
housing equipped with ancillary uses on
include any activity
adequate parking or as a neighborhood
conducted for monetary
provided in the local scale, such as
4. Single (nuclear) family gain or commercial
zoning ordinance. executive
dwellings purposes such as
2. Boarding houses subdivisions and
5. Churches or similar servants quarter, private
with no more than eight relatively
places of worship garage, guardhouse,
(8) boarders. exclusive
6 Church rectories home laundries, non-
3. Neighborhood residential
7. Community facilities and commercial garages,
convenience stores communities
social centers houses for pets such as
selling miscellaneous which are not
8. Parks, playgrounds, dogs, birds, rabbits and
items, provided that subdivisions.
pocket parks, parkways, the like of not more than
such stores shall not
promenades and playlots 4.00 sq. meters in floor
exceed 10% of the
9. Clubhouses and area, pump houses and
gross floor area (GFA)
recreational uses such as generator houses.
of the dwelling unit and
golf courses, tennis provided that no liquor
courts, basketball courts, 2. auxiliary uses customarily
shall be allowed for
swimming pools and conducted in dwellings
sale.
similar uses operated by and homes for the
4. Audio-video and
the government or private practice of one's
computer rental shops,
individuals as profession such as
provided that such
membership offices of physicians,
shops shall not exceed
organizations for the surgeons, dentists,
10% of the total floor
benefit of their members, architects, engineers,
area of the dwelling
families, and guests and lawyers and other
unit.
not operated primarily for professionals provided
gain. that such professionals
5. Home occupation
are members of the
engaging in an in-
family residing in the
house business such
premises; provided
as dressmaking,
further, that not
tailoring, and baking,
provided that the
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more than three (3) area used shall not
semi-professional occupy more than 20%
assistants are employed of the total floor area of
at any time, that in no the dwelling unit; the
case that more than 20% number of persons
of the floor area of the engaged in such
building be used for said business/industry shall
professional practice or not exceed three (3)
home occupation for inclusive of the owner;
engaging an in-house there shall be no
business such as change in the outside
dressmaking, tailoring, appearance of the
baking and the like, building/structure or
provided that the number premises; no home
of persons engaged in occupation shall be
such business/industry conducted in any
shall not exceed five (5), customary accessory
inclusive of the owner; use; no traffic shall be
there shall be no change generated by such
in the outside home occupation in
appearance of the greater volume than
building or premises; no would normally be
home occupation shall be expected in a residential
conducted in any neighborhood and any
customary accessory need for parking
uses cited above; no generated by the
traffic shall be generated conduct of such home
by such home occupation occupation shall be met
in greater volume than off the street and in
would normally be place other than in a
expected in a residential required front yard; no
neighborhood and any equipment or process
need for parking shall be used in such
generated by the conduct home occupation which
of such home occupation creates noise, vibration,
shall be met off the street glare, fumes, odors or
and in a place other than electrical interference
in a required front yard; detectable to the normal
no equipment or process senses and visual or
shall be used in such audible interference in
home occupation which any radio or television
receivers or causes
fluctuation in line
voltage of the premises.
7. Home industry classified
as cottage
industry provided that
such home industry
shall not occupy more
than
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of
Zoning
Occupancy of
PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL Classification
Building/ Structure
Division A-2 1. Single-attached or 1. Customary incidental 1. Ballet, dance and voice Residential R-2 - a
(residential building duplex or town-houses, home occupa-tions such studios provided that medium density
for the exclusive each privately owned as barber and beauty the classes or residential use or
use of non-leasing 2. School dormitories (on shops, tailoring and dress instructions are held in occupancy,
occupants not campus) shops, neighborhood soundproofed and characterized
exceeding 10 3. Convents and convenience stores, retail airconditioned buildings mainly as a low-
persons) monasteries drug stores 2. Sanitaria, nursery or rise single-
4. Military or police convalescent homes attached, duplex or
barracks/ dormitories 3. Philanthropic or multi-level building/
5. All uses allowed in charitable institutions structure for
Division A-1 (or for R-1 upon approval of the exclusive use as
class) Building Official and multiple family
buildings/structures subject to such dwellings. This
6. Pre-schools, elementary conditions and includes R-2
and high schools, safeguards as deemed structures within
provided that they do not appropriate semi-exclusive
exceed sixteen (16) 4. Offices with no actual subdivisions and
classrooms display, sale, transfer, semi-exclusive
7. Outpatient clinics, family or lending of the office residential
planning clinics, lying-in commodities in the communities which
clinics, diagnostic clinics, premises and with are not
medical and clinical subject gross floor area subdivisions.
laboratories (GFA) not exceeding
8. Branch library and 30% of the building There shall be two
museum GFA (2) general types
9. Steam/ dry cleaning 5. Apartment of R-2 use or
outlets hotels/hometels occupancy, to wit:
10. Party needs and 6. Processing, refilling a. Basic R-2 :
accessories (leasing and retailing of bottled single-attached or
of tables and chairs, etc.) drinking water provided duplex
that clearances from building/structure
local health department of from one (1)
and certification of storey up to three
adequate supply from (3) storeys in
the water supply height and with
concessionaire shall be each unit for
secured. separate
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of
Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group B –
Residential
(Buildings/
Structures, Hotels
and Apartments)
Division B-1 1. All uses permitted in 1. All customary accessory 1. All conditional Residential R-3 - a
Divisions A-1 and A-2 (or uses allowed in Divisions uses in R-1 and high-density
for R-1 class and R-2 A-1 and A-2 (or for R-1 R-2 with residential use or
class) class and R-2 class) appropriate occupancy,
buildings/structures buildings/ structures regulations characterized
2. Leased single-detached 2. Branch library and mainly as a low-
dwelling unit, cottage with museum rise or medium-rise
more than one (1) 3. Hometel building/ structure
independent unit and 4. Vocational school for exclusive use
duplexes. as multiple family
3. Boarding and lodging dwellings with
houses mixed housing
4. Multiple-housing units for types. R-3
lease or still for sale structure may
5. Townhouses, each include low-rise or
privately owned medium-rise
6. Boarding houses residential
7. Accessorias (shop- condominium
houses), rowhouses, buildings that are
townhouses, tenements already commercial
and apartments in nature and
8. Multiple privately-owned scale. There shall
condominium units or be two (2) general
tenement houses types of R-3 use or
(residential building for occupancy, to wit:
the exclusive use of non- a. Basic R-3 :
leasing occupants not rowhouse
exceeding ten (10) building/structure
persons and of low—rise of from one (1)
type (up to five (5) storey up to three
storeys maximum (3) storeys in
building height) height and with
9. Hotels, motels, inns, each unit for
pension houses and separate use as
apartels single-family
10. Private or off-campus dwellings; and
dormitories. b. Maximum R-3 :
11. Elementary schools and medium-rise multi-
high schools, provided level building/
that these will not exceed structure of from
twenty (20) classrooms six (6) up to twelve
(12) storeys in
height and for use
as multiple family
dwellings.
Residential R-4 -
a medium to high-
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density residential
use or
occupancy,
characterized
main-ly as a low-
rise townhouse
building/ structure
for exclusive use
as multiple family
dwellings. The
term R-4
specifically refers
to the
building/structure
on an individual
lot (a townhouse
unit) and
generally refers to
the series or rows
of R-4
buildings/structur
es within a
subdivided lot or
property (an R-4
development).
1. Multi-family residential Residential R-5 - a
buildings such as very high-density
condominium, high-rise residential use or
residential occupancy,
buildings/structures, characterized mainly
multi-level apart-ments, as a medium-rise or
tenements, mass high-rise condominium
housing, etc. taller than building/structure for
five (5) storeys but not exclusive use as
more than twelve (12) multiple family
storeys dwelling.
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group C –
Education and
Recreation
Division C-1 1. Educational institutions
like schools, colleges,
universities, vocational,
institutions, seminaries,
convents, including
school auditoriums,
gymnasia, reviewing
stands, little theaters,
concert halls, opera
houses.
2. Seminar/workshop
facilities
3. Training centers/facilities
4. Libraries, museums,
exhibition halls and art
galleries
5. Civic centers,
clubhouses, lodges,
community centers.
6. Churches, mosque,
temples. shrines, chapels
and similar places of
worship
7. Civic or government
centers
8. Other types of
government buildings
Division C-2 1. Amusement halls and 1. Government centers to GI (General
parlors house national, regional Institutional) - a
2. Massage and sauna or local offices in the community to national
parlors area level of institutional
3. Health studios and 2. Colleges, universities, use or occupancy,
reducing salons professional business characterized mainly
4. Billiard halls, pool rooms, schools, vocational and as a low-rise, medium-
bowling alleys and golf trade schools, technical rise or high-rise
clubhouses schools and other building/structure for
5. Dancing schools, disco institutions of higher education-al, training
pads, dance and learning and related activities,
amusement halls 3. General hospitals, e.g., schools and
6. Gymnasia, pelota courts medical centers, multi- related facilities and
and sports complex purpose clinics the like.
4. Scientific, cultural and
academic centers and
research facilities
except nuclear,
radioactive, chemical
and biological warfare
facilities
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5. Convention centers and
related facilities
6. Religious structures,
e.g., church, seminary,
novitiates
7. Museums
8. Embassies/ consulate
9. Student housing, e.g.,
dormitories, boarding
house
General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group D –
Institutional
(Government and
Health Services)
Division D-1 1. Mental hospitals, 1. Welfare homes, GI (General
(Institutional, where mental sanitaria and orphanages, boys and Institutional) - a
personal liberties of mental asylums girls town, home for the community to national
in-mates are 2. Police and fire aged and the like level of institutional
restrained, or stations, guard houses 2. Rehabilitation and use or occupancy,
quarters of those 3. Jails, prisons, vocational training center characterized mainly
rendering public reformatories and for ex-convicts, drug as a low-rise, medium-
assistance and correctional institutions addicts, unwed mothers, rise or high-rise
maintaining peace 4. Rehabilitation physically, mentally and building/ structure for
and order) centers emotionally handicapped, medical, government
5. Leprosaria and ex-sanitaria inmates; and service administrative
quarantine station similar establishments and related activities,
3. Military e.g., hospitals and
camps/reservations/bases related health care
and training grounds facilities, government
4. Penitentiary and offices, military, police
correctional institution and correctional
buildings and the like.
Division D-2 1. Hospitals, sanitaria, and
(Institutional,
buildings for health homes for the aged
care)
2. Nurseries for children of
kindergarten age or non-
ambulatory patients
accommodating more
than five (5) persons
1. Nursing homes for
Division D-3 ambulatory patients
(Institutional, for 2. School and home, for
ambulatory patients children over
or children over kindergarten age
kindergarten age) 3. Orphanages
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group E – Business
and Mercantile
(Commercial)
Division E-1 1. All uses allowed in 1. Office building 1. Garage for C-1 (Commercial One
(Business and Division B-1 (or for R-3 2. Office condominium jeepneys and taxis or Light Commercial) -
Mercantile, where class) buildings/ 3. Department not greater than six a neighborhood or
no work is done structures store/shopping center (6) units in number community level of
except change of 2. Gasoline filling and 4 Bookstore and office 2. Garage for bus and commercial use or
parts and service stations. supply shop trucks not greater occupancy,
maintenance 3. Storage garage and boat 5. Car shop than three (3) units characterized mainly
requiring no open storage. 6. Home appliance store in number as a low-rise
flames, welding, or 4. Commercial garages and 7. Photo shop 3. Retailing of CHBs, building/structure for
use of highly parking buildings, display 8. Flower shop gravel and sand low intensity
flammable liquids) for cars, tractors, etc. 9. Bakery and bake shop and other concrete commercial/trade,
5. Bus and railways depots 10. Wine store products service and business
and terminals and offices 11. Grocery activities, e.g., one to
6. Port facilities 12. Supermarket three (1 to 3) storey
7. Airports and heliport 13. Beauty parlor shopping centers,
facilities 14. Barber shop small offices or mixed-
8. All other types of 15. Sauna bath and use/occupancy
transportation complexes massage clinic buildings and the like.
9. All other types of large 16. Dressmaking and
complexes for public tailoring shops
services 17. Movie house/theater
10. Pawnshops, money
shops, photo and portrait
studios, shoeshine/repair
stands, retail drugstores,
tailoring and dress shops
11. Bakeshops and bakery 18. Playcourt, e.g., tennis, UTS (Utilities,
goods stores bowling, billiards Transportation and
19. Swimming pool Services) – a range of
12. Stores for construction utilitarian/functional
20. Day/night club
supplies and building uses or occupancies,
21. Stadium, coliseum,
materials such as characterized mainly
gymnasium
electrical and electronics, as a low-rise or
22. Other sports and
plumbing supplies, medium- rise
recreational
ceramic clay cement and building/structure for
establishments
other similar products low to high intensity
except CHBs, gravel and 23. Restaurants and other community support
sand and other concrete eateries functions, e.g.,
products 24. Short term special terminals/inter-
education like dancing modals/multi-modals
schools, schools for and depots
self-defense, driving
schools, speech clinics
25. Storeroom and
warehouse but only as
may be necessary for
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the efficient conduct of
the business
26. Commercial housing
like hotel, apartment,
apartel, boarding
house, dormitory,
pension house,
clubhouse, motel
27. Commercial
condominium (with
residential units in
upper floors)
28. Embassy/ consulate
29. Library/museum
30. Filling station/service
station
31. Clinic
32. Vocational/ technical
school
33. Convention center and
related facilities
34. Messengerial service
35. Security agency
36. Janitorial service
37. Bank and other
financial institution
38. Radio and television
station
39. Building garage
40. Commercial job
printing
41. Typing and photo
engraving services
42. Repair of optical
instruments and
equipment and
cameras
43. Repair of clocks and
watches
44. Manufacture of insignia,
badges and similar
emblems except metal
45. Transportation
terminal/garage
46. Plant nurseries
47. Scientific, cultural and
academic centers and
research facilities except
nuclear, radioactive,
chemical and biological
warfare facilities.
Division E-2 1. Wholesale and retail 1. All uses in C-1 C-2 (Commercial
(Business and stores class buildings/ 1. Institutional uses Two or Medium
Mercantile in 2. Shopping centers, structures may be as colleges and Commercial) - a
nature) malls and supermarkets allowed in C-2 class universities, municipal or city
3. Wet and dry markets buildings/structures vocational and level of
4. Restaurants, 2. Repair shops like house technical schools, commercial use
drinking and dining appliances, motor general hospitals or occupancy,
and specialized
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establishments with less vehicles and accessory, general welfare, characterized
than one hundred (100) home furnishing shops charitable and mainly as a
occupancies. government medium-rise
5. Day/night clubs, bars, institutions building/structure
cocktails, 2. Hauling services for medium to
and garage high intensity
terminals for commercial/
trucks, tow trucks, trade, service and
and buses not
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24. Glassware and 20. Funeral parlors,
metalware stores, mortuaries and
household equipment crematory services and
and appliance shops memorial chapels
25. Manufacture of insignia, 21. Parking lots, garage
badges and similar facilities
emblems except metal 22. Buildings/structures for
26. General retail other commercial
establishments such as activities not elsewhere-
curio or antique shops, classified (n.e.c.)
pet shops and aquarium
stores, bookstores, art
supplies and novelties,
jewelry shops, liquor wine
stores and fIower shops
27. Employment/recruitment
agencies, news syndicate
services and office
equipment and repair
shops and other offices
28. Watch sales and services,
locksmith and other
related services
29. Other stores and shops
for conducting retail
business and local
shopping establishments
30. Radio, television and other
electrical appliance repair
shops
31. Furniture, repair and
upholstering job
32. Computer stores and
video shops, including
repair
33. Internet cafes and cyber
stations
34. Garment manufacturing
with no more than twenty
(20) machines
34. Signboard and streamer
painting and silk
screening
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35. Car barns for jeepneys
and taxis not more than
six (6) units
36. Lotto terminals, off-
fronton, on-line bingo
outlets and off-track
betting stations
37. Gardens and
landscaping supply/
contractors
38. Printing, typesetting,
copiers and duplicating
services
39. Photo supply and
developing
40. Restaurants, canteens,
eateries, delicatessen
shops, confectionery
shops and
automats/fastfoods
41. Groceries
42. Laundries and
laundromats
43. Recording and film
laboratories
44. Auto repair, tire,
vulcanizing shops and
carwash with minimum
100 sq. meters service
area
45. Physical fitness
gyms/centers
Division E-3 1. All permitted uses in 1. All uses allowed in C-3 (Commercial
(Business and R-1, R-2 and R-3 Zones Three or Metropolitan
Mercantile, where Division E-1 (or for C-1 2. All uses allowed in Commercial) means a
no repair work is C-1, C-2 and C-3 Zones metropolitan level of
done except and C-2 class) buildings/ 3. Some uses commercial
exchange of parts allowed in I-1 Zones use/occupancy,
and maintenance structures 4. All uses allowed in characterized mainly
requiring no open GI Zones and SI Zones as a medium-rise to
flames, welding or 5. Parks and high-rise
2. Aircraft hangars
use of highly Recreation and building/structure for
flammable liquid) Entertainment class high to very high
3. Commercial parking lots buildings/ structures intensity commercial/
trade, service and
and garages business activities,
e.g., large to very
large shopping malls,
4. Department stores, very large office or
shopping malls/ centers, mixed-use/occupancy
commercial and sports buildings and the like.
complexes/ areas
5. Institutional uses as
university complexes
6. Other commercial/
business activities not
elsewhere classified
(n.e.c.)
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General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group F –
Industrial (Non-
Pollutive/ Non-
Hazardous
Industries and
Non-Pollutive/
Hazardous
Industries)
Division F-1 1. Ice plants and cold Customary support facilities Building/structure with I-1 (Industrial
(Light Industrial) storage buildings for industries such as lesser negative One) - a light
2. Power plants housing, community, utilities environmental impact industrial use or
(thermal, hydro or and services occupancy,
geothermal) characterized
3. Pumping plants mainly as a low-
(water supply, storm rise but sprawling
drainage, sewerage, building/
irrigation and waste
structure for low
treatment plants)
intensity
4. Dairies and
manufacturing or
creameries
production activities.
5. Rice mills and
sugar centrals
6. Breweries, bottling
plants, canneries, and
tanneries
7. Factories and
workshops using
incombustible or non-
explosive materials
Group G – Storage
and Hazardous
Industrial
(Pollutive/ Non-
Hazardous
industries and
Pollutive/
Hazardous
Industries Only)
Division G-1 1. Storage tanks, Customary support facilities Building/structure with I-2 (Industrial Two) - a
(Medium Industrial, buildings for storing for industries such as lesser negative medium industrial use
which shall include gasoline, acetylene, LPG, housing, community, utilities environment impact or occupancy,
storage and calcium, carbides, and services characterized mainly
handling of oxygen, hydrogen, and as a low-rise but
hazardous and the like sprawling building/
highly flammable 2. Armories, arsenals structure for medium
materials) and munitions factories intensity
3. Match and manufacturing or
fireworks factories production activities.
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4. Plastics resin UTS (Utilities,
plants (monomer and Transportation and
polymer) Services) – a range of
5. Plastics utilitarian/functional
compounding and uses/ occupancies,
processing plants characterized mainly
6. Acetylene and by low-rise or medium-
oxygen generating plants rise
7. Cooking oil and buildings/structures for
soap processing plants low to high intensity
8. Factories for highly community support
flammable chemicals functions, e.g., power
9. Water and power and water generation/
generation/ distribution distribution facilities,
complexes telecommunication
10. Liquid and solid facilities,
waste management drainage/wastewater
facilities and sewerage
11. All other types of facilities, solid waste
large complexes for handling facilities and
public utilities the like excluding
terminals/inter-
modals/multi-modals
and depot
Division G-2 1. All uses permitted Customary support facilities Building/structure with
(Medium Industrial in I-1 class for industries such as lesser negative
buildings for storage 2. Dry cleaning plants housing, community, utilities environment impact
and handling of using flammable liquids and services
flammable 3. Paint stores with
materials) bulk handling
4. Paint shops and
spray painting rooms
5. Sign and billboard
painting shops
Division G-3 1. Wood working Customary support facilities Building/structure with
(Medium Industrial establishments, lumber for industries such as lesser negative
buildings for wood and timber yards housing, community, utilities environment impact
working activities, 2. Planing mills and and services
papers cardboard sawmills, veneer plants
manufactures, 3. Wood drying kilns
textile and garment 4. Pulp, paper and
factories paperboard factories
5. Wood and
cardboard box factories
6. Textile and fiber
spinning mills
7. Grains and cement
silos
8. Warehouses
where highly combustible
materials are stored.
9. Factories where
loose combustible fiber or
dirt are manufactured,
processed or generated.
10. Garment and
undergarment factories
Division G-4 1. Repair garages Customary support facilities Building/structure with
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(Medium Industrial, and shops for industries such as lesser negative
for repair garages 2. Factories for housing, community, utilities environment impact
and engine engines and turbines and and services
manufacture attached testing facilities
Division G-5 1. Hangars Customary support facilities Building/structure with
(Medium Industrial, 2. Manufacture and for industries such as lesser negative
for aircraft facilities) assembly plants of housing, community, utilities environment impact
aircraft engine and services
3. Repairs and
testing shops for aircraft
engines and parts
General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group H –
Assembly for less
than 1,000
(Cultural and/ or
Recreational)
Division H-1 1. Theaters and PRE (Park Structures,
(Recreational, which auditoriums Recreation and
are assembly 2. Concert halls and open Entertainment) - a
buildings with stage houses range of recreational
and having an 3. Convention halls uses or occupancies,
occupant load of 4. Little theaters, audio- characterized mainly
less than 1,000) as a low-rise or
visual rooms medium-rise
building/structure for
low to medium
intensity recreational
or entertainment
functions related to
educational uses, e.g.,
structures on
campuses or its
component parks/open
spaces and all other
kinds of recreational or
assembly
buildings/structures on
campus such as
auditoria, mess halls,
seminar facilities,
gymnasia, stadia,
arenas and the like.
CUL (Cultural) - a
community to national
level of cultural use or
occupancy,
characterized
mainly as a low-rise or
medium-rise building/
structure for cultural
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activities, e.g., cultural
centers, convention
centers, very large
office or mixed-
use/occupancy
buildings and the like.
Division H-2 1. Dance halls, cabarets,
(Recreational, which ballrooms
are assembly 2. Skating rinks
buildings with stage 3. Cockfighting arenas
and having an
occupant load of
300 or more)
Division H-3 1. Dance halls, ballrooms
(Recreational, which 2. Skating rinks
are assembly
buildings with stage
and having an
occupant load of
less than 300)
Division H-4 1. Sports stands
(Recreational, 2. Reviewing stands
tourism estate 3. Grandstand and
developments or bleachers
tourism-oriented 4. Covered amusement
establishments, parks
which are structures 5. Boxing arenas, jai-alai
not included in stadiums
Divisions H-1) 6. Race tracks and
hippodromes
7. All types of resort
complexes
8. All other types of
amusement and
entertainment complexes
Group I –
Assembly for More
than 1,000
(Cultural and/or
Recreational)
Division I-1 1. Colisea and sports 1. Parks/gardens CUL (Cultural) - a
(Recreational, complexes 2. Resort areas, e.g., community to national
Assembly Buildings 2. Theaters and convention beaches, including level of cultural use or
with stage and an centers accessory uses occupancy,
occupant load of 3. Concert halls and open 3. Open air or outdoor characterized mainly
1,000 or more in the houses sports activities and as a low-rise or
building) 4. Convention centers support facilities, medium-rise
including low rise stadia, building/structure for
gyms, amphitheaters and cultural activities
swimming pools
4. Golf courses, ball courts, PRE (Park
race tracks and similar Structures,
uses Recreation and
5.Memorial/Shrines/monume Entertainment) - a
nts, kiosks and other range of
park structures recreational uses
or
6. Sports Club occupancies,
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7. Underground parking characterized mainly as a
structures/ facilities low-rise or medium-rise
building/ structure for low
to medium intensity
recreational or
entertainment functions
related to educational
uses, e.g., structures on
campuses or its
component parks/open
spaces and all other
kinds of recreational or
assembly buildings/
structures on campus
such as auditoria, mess
halls, seminar facilities,
gymnasia, stadia, arenas
and the like.
General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/ Structure
Group J –
Accessory
(Agricultural and
Other
Occupancies/
Uses not
Specifically
Mentioned Under
Groups A through
I)
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