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Zoning

R1

R1: Low Density Residential Zone:

  • Intended for:
    • Villa
    • Bungalow
    • Permitted Uses: 
      • Single family houses
      • Home Occupation
    • Ancillary Uses:
      • Car parking garage
      • Store and Service rooms
      • Guard House
    • plot Size: Max 500 m2
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 40%
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 20%
    • Maximum Number of floors
      • G+1+P (Penthouse)
      • G (ancillary buildings)

Not allowed for: 

  • Industrial uses 
  • Major infrastructure
  • Gated estates on developments of more than 1 ha

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 10-15 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 7-10 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

Roads Planning:

  • Physical plan : 
  1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
  2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  3. Existing road Available

See  here below the example building design in R1 Zone

R1A

R1A : Low Density Residential Densification Zone Explained:

  • Intended for:
    • Single family houses (all types)
    • Semi-detached houses
    • Multifamily Houses
    • Townhouses
    • Row houses
    • Home Occupation
    • Ancillary Uses:
      • Car parking garage
      • Store and Service rooms
      • Guard House
    • Plot Size: Max 300 m2
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 50%
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 20%
    • Maximum Number of Floors: G+2, G (ancillary buildings)

Not for: Residential not exceeding G + 2 (2 levels above the ground floor), Industrial uses and Major infrastructure

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 20-30 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 15-20 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

See  here below the example building design in R1A Zone

R1B

R1B: Rural Residential Zone Explained

  • Intended for:
    • Single family Houses
    • Row housing
    • Multifamily residential (4 in 1, 8 in 1, etc)
    • Low-rise apartments
    • Home Occupation
    • Accessory Residential Units
    • Detached Bungalows
    • Semi Detached Houses
    • Rowhouses
    • Ancillary Uses:
      •  Car parking garage
      •  Outdoor kitchen
      •  Store rooms
    • Plot Size: Max 100 m2, for Row Housing or Single-Family Units / Multifamily houses or Apartment development including additional rooms for rental shall be allowed
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 60%
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: N/A
    • Maximum Number of Floors:
      • G + 1 for single family houses (Ground floor + one level)
      • G+2 for all other typologies
      • G (ancillary buildings)

 

Not for: Industrial uses & Major infrastructure

 

See the example building design 

 

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 40-70 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 30-50 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

R2

R2: Medium Density Residential - Improvement Zone Explained

  • Intended for:
    • Row housing
    • Low Rise apartments
    • Home Occupation
    • Accessory Residential Units
    • Ancillary Uses: Store and Services rooms
    • Plot Size: Rowhouses: Max 200 m2
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 60% maximum
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 20% minimum
    • Maximum Number of Floors:
      • G+3
      • One (1) extra floor may be allowed due to topographic conditions, to achieve the required density or to achieve technical or economic feasibility of the development.
      • G (ancillary buildings)

 

Not for: Industrial uses, Major infrastructure & Single Family Residential Developments

 

See the example building design 

 

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 40-70 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 30-50 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

R3

R3: Medium Density Residential - Expansion Zone Explained

  • Intended for:
    • Single family Residential
    • Rowhouses
    • Low-rise apartments
    • Multifamily Houses
    • Accessory Residential units
    • Home Occupation
    • Ancillary Uses: Store and Services rooms
    • Plot Size: 100m2 for incremental Single-Family Housing in new Subdivision Plans. 
      • Max 150 m2 for Row housing
      • N/A (Multifamily houses or Apartment development including additional rooms for rental shall be allowed, provided it meets the minimum density requirement
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 60% maximum
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 20% minimum 
    • Maximum Number of Floors: G+2
      • One (1) extra floor may be allowed due to topographic conditions, to achieve the required density or to achieve technical or economic feasibility of the development.
      • G (ancillary buildings)

 

Not for: Industrial uses, Major infrastructure, Any development that does not meet affordability criteria

suggested in these regulations.

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 50-90 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 40-70 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

R4

R4: High Density Residential Zone Explained

  • Intended for:
    • High density residential
    • Home Occupation
    • R2 typologies in case plot size is less than 750 m2
    • Ancillary Uses: 
      • Car parking garage
      • Guard house
      • Store and services rooms
    • Plot Size: 
      • 750 m2, 
      • Plots smaller than 750 m2 can be developed following R2 regulations
      • Plots larger than 750 m2 can be developed following R2 regulations if plot subdivision allows for R2 regulation to be applied
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 50% maximum
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 20% minimum
    • Maximum Number of Floors: 
      • G+4 (apartments) maximum
      • One (1) extra floor may be allowed, due to topographic conditions, to achieve the required density or to achieve technical or economic feasibility of the development.
      • G ( ancillary buildings) maximum
    • Floor to Floor Height: 4m maximum

 

Not for:  Industrial uses &Major infrastructure

 

Minimum residential density:

  1. Single Use: 80-120 Du/Ha
  2. Mixed Use: 60-80 Du/Ha (considering when building is partially occupied by other uses as per O-C2 overlay regulations )

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

C1

C1: Mixed-Use and Commercial Zone Explained

  • Permitted Uses:
    • Commercial / Retail
    • Restaurants and Recreational activities
    • Office use above the 1st floor
    • Co-working spaces
    • Residential
    • Home Occupation
    • Ancillary Uses: 
      • Electrical substation (ESS)
      • Refuse area
    • Plot Size: 
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 60% maximum
    • Minimum Lot Size: 
      • 500 m2
      • Plots with size below 500 m2 in existing consolidated commercial nodes in the City can retain smaller plot size up to 200 m2 following OSC approval
    • Minimum landscape Coverage: 10% minimum
    • Maximum Number of Floors:
      • G+4 maximum - Additional floors may be authorised by OSC along BRT, Wetland Front, and Green Connectors
      • G (ancillary buildings) maximum 
    • Floor to Floor Height: Refer Building Code

 

Not for:  The following signs are prohibited:

  • Roof mounted signs
  • String lights, flashing, excessively bright lights
  • Offsite signage

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)

Existing road Available

L1

I1: Light Industrial Zone

  • Permitted Uses
  • Non-pollutive industrial uses such as:
  • Agricultural processing plants
  • Industrial Bakeries
  • Building material and lumber storage
  • Cabinetmaking and carpenter workshops
  • Petrol stations
  • Food processing (except fish, dairy, poultry and meat products, sauerkraut, vinegar, yeast and rendering of fats and oils)
  • Fruit or vegetable packing plants
  • Laboratories for research and development
  • Light manufacturing and assembly
  • Car wash
  • Machine shops
  • Mechanized equipment storage and sale
  • Non-hazardous material, bulk storage and related uses
  • Sheet metal shops
  • Storage building for household goods
  • Automotive repair shops
  • Wholesale and warehousing
  • Dry cleaning / laundry service
  • Business Parks, Science Parks
  • Prohibited Uses:
  • Residential Uses not related to other activities present on the site
  • Major Infrastructure Installations
  • Conditional Uses:
  • Railroad yards and freight stations
  • Trucking yard or terminal
  • Concrete or stone products manufacturing plants
  • Grain milling
  • Treatment of wastewater
  • Religious Facilities
  • Workers’ Accommodation
  • Grocery shop and small retail
  • Restaurants
  • Hotels, B&B, Guesthouses
  • Commercial Uses
  • Ancillary Uses: 
  • Electrical substation (ESS)
  • Refuse area
  • Minimum Lot Size: 250 m2
  • Maximum Building Coverage: 60% maximum
  • Minimum Landscaping Coverage: 10% minimum
  • Maximum Building Height: 
  • 10.00 m 
  • 5.00 m (ancillary buildings)
  • Permitted:
  • All signs shall
    • Be integrated into the design and theme of the building
    • Be wall mounted
  • Prohibited:
  • The following signs are prohibited:
    • Multiple free-standing signage
    • Off-site signage

L2

I2: General Industrial Zone

  • Permitted Uses: 
  • All uses allow in I1 – Light Industrial Zone
  • Batching and mixing plants, asphalt, cement, and concrete
  • Manufacturing
  • Brewing or distilling of liquor
  • Building wreckers and house mover storage yards
  • Foundries
  • Manufacture of paper products
  • Storage of oil, gasoline or petroleum products in any quantity exceeding 3,500 Cubic Meters (m³) on any one lot or parcel of land
  • Structural steel fabrication
  • Prohibited Uses: 
  • Residential Uses
  • Major Infrastructure Installations
  • Conditional Uses: 
  • Heavy salvage, junk, and auto wrecking yards
  • Electric power generating plants
  • Slaughterhouses
  • Workers’ Accommodation
  • Grocery shop
  • Restaurants
  • Ancillary Uses:
    • Electrical substation
    • Refuse area
  • Minimum Lot Size:
    • 1000 m2
  • Maximum Building Coverage:
    • 60% maximum
  • Minimum Landscaping Coverage: 
    • 10% minimum
  • Maximum Building Height:
    • 10.00 m
    • 5.00 m (ancillary buildings)

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

L3

I3: Mining and Quarrying Industrial Zone

  • Permitted Uses: 
    • Mining
    • Quarrying including clay extraction
    • Brick Kilns
    • Operations and Crushing Plants
    • Other mining related activities

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)

Existing road Available

P1

P1: Parks and Open Spaces Zone

  • Permitted Uses:      
    • Botanical gardens, arboretums, and conservatories
    • Outdoor recreational facilities, such as hiking and bicycle trails, greens, and commons, sitting areas and picnic areas.
    • Park related public facilities such as public toilet/ changing room.
  • Prohibited Uses: 
    • All types of industrial uses
    • All types of residential uses
    • Commercial uses exceeding what prescribed at point 1.3 below
    • All types of major public facilities
    • Major infrastructure installations
  • Conditional Uses:
    • Restaurants not exceeding 0.01 GFA or 150 m2 whichever is less 
    • Kiosks
    • Souvenir shops
  • Maximum Number of Floors
    • G+1 maximum
    • G (ancillary buildings) maximum

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

P2

P2: Sports and Eco-Tourism Zone

  • Permitted Uses: 
    • Sports Complexes
    • Theme Parks
    • Resort Hotels
    • Camping Site
    • Golf Courses
    • Recreational Clubs
    • Zoo
    • Small commercial establishments
  • Prohibited Uses: 
    • All types of industrial uses
    • All types of major public facilities
    • Major infrastructure installations

                         

  • Conditional Uses:    
    • Residential Estates
    • Complementary commercial uses
    • Minor Public Facilities
    • Supporting Infrastructure
    • Public Swimming Pools
    • Nightclubs
    • Stadiums
    • Cultural Centres
    • Museums
    • Concert halls
  • Ancillary Uses: 
    • Parking
    • Toilets
    •  
  • Maximum Number of Floors
    • G+2 maximum
    • G (ancillary buildings) maximum

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

O-C2

O-C2: Neighborhood Commercial Zone Overlay Explained

  • Permitted Uses:
    • Commercial retail
    • Retail
    • Offices
    • Hotels
    • Micro-Enterprise
    • Co-working spaces
    • Conditional Uses:
      • Garages and Car Repair - Grade E as per RBS 5 and CoK requirements
      • Car Wash Services
    • Regulation: 
      • These developments shall be allowed within a 30-meter buffer area from the minor arterials and collector roads’ edges. 
      • The neighborhood level mixed-use developments shall be allowed along the minor arterials and collector roads, based on the initiative of the landowner / developer.

Not for: 

  • All types of industrial uses, 
  • Large scale commercial uses such as shopping centres, hypermarts, showrooms, etc.
  • Major infrastructure

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

C3

C3: City Commercial Zone Explained

  • Permitted Uses
    • Developments allowed in the C1 zone
    • Shopping centres
    • Offices
    • Hotels
    • Apartments
    • Leisure and entertainment centres (e.g. cinemas,
    • Bowling alleys)
    • Galleries
    • Education Institutions
    • Conditional Uses:
    • Conditional Uses:
      • Public Facilities
      • Petrol stations
      • Transport Interchange
      • Garages and Car Repair - Grade E as per RBS6 and CoK requirements
      • Car Wash Services
    • Ancillary Uses
      • Electrical substation
      • Refuse area
    • Minimum Lot Size
      • 1000 m2
      • Plots with size below 1000 m2 area can follow C1 regulations
    • Maximum Building Coverage: 70% maximum
    • Minimum Landscaping Coverage: 10% minimum
    • Maximum Number of Floors: 
      • G+10 maximum
      • G (ancillary buildings) maximum
    • Floor to Floor Height:
      • Ground Floor - 5m maximum
      • Other Floors - 4m maximum
    • Permitted
      • One Building identification sign shall be permitted on the tower
      • One commercial sign per tenant shall be permitted:
        • Wall Signage (15% of the Building Face or 9 m2 whichever less)
        • Window Signage (Transparent, 15% of the Building Face or 2.5m2 whichever less)
        • Awning Signage (Min 2.5m clearance and 25% of the Building Face or 2.5m2 whichever less)
        • Free standing Signage (Maximum 1.5 m height)

Not for: 

  • The following signs are prohibited:
    • Roof mounted signs
    • Offsite signage

 

Roads Planning:

  1. Physical plan : 
    1. Implemented on the site (only the map)   
    2. Not yet implemented in the site ( need to leave the space for the road)
  2. Existing road Available

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PF: Public Facilities Zone

Two forms:

  • As a Zone whenever such facilities are already existing, or their locations are confirmed.
  • As an Overlay for future proposals suggesting most suitable locations to serve the relevant catchment area. Final location shall be consolidated at detailed design or Land Subdivision stage.

 

PF zones are subdivided in the following sub-zones:

  • PF1 - Public Facilities Zone-Education and Research
  • PF2 - Public Facilities Zone -Health
  • PF3 - Public Facilities Zone -Religious
  • PF4 - Public Facilities Zone-Cultural/Memorial
  • PF5 - Cemetery/Crematoria