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Table VII.1. Schedule of Principal, Accessory and Conditional Use/Occupancy of Building/Structure

General U S E
Classification of
Use/Character of
Zoning Classification
Occupancy of PRINCIPAL ACCESSORY CONDITIONAL
Building/
Structure
Group A –
Residential
(Dwellings)
Division A-1 1. Indigenous family dwelling units 1. Customary accessory uses incidental Residential R-1 - a low-
2. Single-detached units 1. Preparatory schools, provided that they
(Residential building/ to any of the principal uses housed in density residential zone,
3. School or company staff housing do not exceed three (3) classrooms and
structure for exclusive the same Division A-1 (or R-1 class) characterized mainly by single-
4. Single (nuclear) family dwellings shall be located not less than 500
use of single family building/structure, provided that such family, single detached
5. Churches or similar places of worship meters from nearest existing school
occupants) accessory uses shall not include any dwellings with the usual
6 Church rectories offering similar course and are equipped
activity conducted for monetary gain or community ancillary uses on a
7. Community facilities and social centers with adequate parking or as provided in
commercial purposes such as servants neighborhood scale, such as
8. Parks, playgrounds, pocket parks, the local zoning ordinance.
quarter, private garage, guardhouse, executive subdivisions and
parkways, promenades and playlots 2. Boarding houses with no more than
home laundries, non-commercial relatively exclusive residential
9. Clubhouses and recreational uses such eight (8) boarders.
garages, houses for pets such as communities which are not
as golf courses, tennis courts, basketball 3. Neighborhood convenience stores
dogs, birds, rabbits and the like of not subdivisions.
courts, swimming pools and similar uses selling miscellaneous items, provided
more than 4.00 sq. meters in floor
operated by the government or private that such stores shall not exceed 10% of
area, pump houses and generator
individuals as membership organizations the gross floor area (GFA) of the
houses.
for the benefit of their members, families, dwelling unit and provided that no liquor
2. Auxiliary uses customarily conducted in
and guests and not operated primarily for shall be allowed for sale.
dwellings and homes for the practice
gain. 4. Audio-video and computer rental shops,
of one's profession such as offices of
provided that such shops shall not
physicians, surgeons, dentists,
exceed 10% of the total floor area of the
architects, engineers, lawyers and
dwelling unit.
other professionals provided that such
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5. Home occupation engaging in an in-

professionals are members of the
house business such as dressmaking,
family residing in the premises;
tailoring, and baking, provided that the
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more than three (3) semi-professional area used shall not occupy more than
assistants are employed at any time, 20% of the total floor area of the dwelling
that in no case that more than 20% of unit; the number of persons engaged in
the floor area of the building be used such business/industry shall not exceed
for said professional practice or home three (3) inclusive of the owner; there
occupation for engaging an in-house shall be no change in the outside
business such as dressmaking, appearance of the building/structure or
tailoring, baking and the like, provided premises; no home occupation shall be
that the number of persons engaged in conducted in any customary accessory
such business/industry shall not use; no traffic shall be generated by such
exceed five (5), inclusive of the owner; home occupation in greater volume than
there shall be no change in the outside would normally be expected in a
appearance of the building or residential neighborhood and any need
premises; no home occupation shall for parking generated by the conduct of
be conducted in any customary such home occupation shall be met off
accessory uses cited above; no traffic the street and in place other than in a
shall be generated by such home required front yard; no equipment or
occupation in greater volume than process shall be used in such home
would normally be expected in a occupation which creates noise,
residential neighborhood and any need vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical
for parking generated by the conduct interference detectable to the normal
of such home occupation shall be met senses and visual or audible interference
off the street and in a place other than in any radio or television receivers or
in a required front yard; no equipment causes fluctuation in line voltage of the
or process shall be used in such home premises.
occupation which 7. Home industry classified as cottage
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industry provided that such home

industry shall not occupy more than
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creates noise, vibration, glare, 30% of the gross floor area (GFA) of the
fumes, odors or electrical dwelling unit with employees not to
interference detectable to the normal exceed five (5) persons and shall have
senses and visual or audible no change or alteration in the outside
interference in any radio or television appearance of the dwelling unit and shall
receivers or causes fluctuation in line not be a hazard/nuisance; allotted
voltage of the premises. capitalization shall not exceed the
3. Home industry classified as cottage capitalization as set by the Department of
industry provided that such home Trade and Industry (DTI); no home
industry shall not occupy more than industry shall be conducted in any
30% of the floor area of the dwelling customary accessory use; no traffic shall
unit; there shall be no change or be generated by such home industry in
alteration in the outside appearance of greater volume than would normally be
the dwelling unit and shall not be a expected in a residential neighborhood
hazard/nuisance; allotted capitalization and any need for parking generated by
shall not exceed the capitalization as the conduct of such home occupation
set by the Department of Trade and shall be met off the street and in a place
Industry (DTI); shall consider same other than in a required front yard; no
provisions as enumerated in number 2, equipment or process shall be used in
Profession or Home Occupation, this such home industry which creates noise,
Section. vibration, glare, fumes, odors or electrical
4. Recreational facilities for the exclusive interference detectable to the normal
use of the members of the family senses and visual or audible interference
residing within the premises, such as in any radio or television receivers or
swimming pool, pelota court, etc. causes fluctuation in line voltage of the
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5. Religious use premises.

6. Multi-purpose/Barangay Hall
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7. Pre-School
8. Sports club
9. Clinic, nursing and convalescing
home, health center
10. Plant nursery

Division A-2 1. Single-attached or duplex or town- 1. Customary incidental home occupa- 1. Ballet, dance and voice studios Residential R-2 - a medium
(residential building for houses, each privately owned tions such as barber and beauty provided that the classes or instructions density residential use or
the exclusive use of 2. School dormitories (on campus) shops, tailoring and dress shops, are held in soundproofed and occupancy, characterized
non-leasing occupants 3. Convents and monasteries neighborhood convenience stores, airconditioned buildings mainly as a low-rise single-
not exceeding 10 4. Military or police barracks/ dormitories retail drug stores 2. Sanitaria, nursery or convalescent attached, duplex or multi-level
persons) 5. All uses allowed in Division A-1 (or for R- homes building/ structure for exclusive
1 class) buildings/structures 3. Philanthropic or charitable institutions use as multiple family dwellings.
6. Pre-schools, elementary and high upon approval of the Building Official This includes R-2 structures
schools, provided that they do not and subject to such conditions and within semi-exclusive
exceed sixteen (16) classrooms safeguards as deemed appropriate subdivisions and semi-exclusive
7. Outpatient clinics, family planning 4. Offices with no actual display, sale, residential communities which
clinics, lying-in clinics, diagnostic clinics, transfer, or lending of the office are not subdivisions.
medical and clinical laboratories commodities in the premises and with
8. Branch library and museum subject gross floor area (GFA) not There shall be two (2) general
9. Steam/ dry cleaning outlets exceeding 30% of the building GFA types of R-2 use or occupancy,
10. Party needs and accessories (leasing 5. Apartment hotels/hometels to wit:
of tables and chairs, etc.) 6. Processing, refilling and retailing of
bottled drinking water provided that a. Basic R-2 : single-attached
clearances from local health department or duplex building/structure of
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the water supply concessionaire shall be (3) storeys in height and with
secured. each unit for separate
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7. Home occupation for the practice of use as single-family dwellings
one's profession or for engaging in an and;
in-house business such as dressmaking,
tailoring, baking, barber and beauty b. Maximum R-2 : low-rise
shops and the like, provided that the multi-level building/structure of
area in use shall not exceed 30% of the from three (3) up to five (5)
gross floor area (GFA) of the dwelling storeys in height and for use as
unit with the number of persons multiple family dwellings
engaged in such business/industry not
exceeding ten (10) inclusive of owner;
there shall be no change in the outside
appearance of the building or premises,
no home occupation shall be conducted
in any customary accessory use; no
traffic shall be generated by such home
occupation in greater volume than would
normally be expected in a residential
neighborhood and any need for parking
generated by the conduct of such home
occupation shall be met off the street
and in a place other than in a required
front yard; no equipment or process
shall be used in such home occupation
which creates noise, vibration, glare,
fumes, odors or electrical interference
detectable to the normal senses and
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visual or audible interference in any
radio or television receivers or causes
fluctuation in line voltage of the
premises.
8. Car barns for not more than three (3)
units.
9. LPG retailing with a maximum of twenty
(20) units of LPG tanks at any given time
10. Recreational facilities such as resorts,
swimming pools, clubhouses and similar
uses except carnivals and fairs
11. Bank branches, savings/loans/lending
shops.
12. Driving range
Group B –
Residential
(Buildings/
Structures, Hotels
and Apartments)
Division B-1 1. All uses permitted in Divisions A-1 and A- 1. All customary accessory uses allowed 1. All conditional uses in R-1 and R-2 with Residential R-3 - a high-density
2 (or for R-1 class and R-2 class) in Divisions A-1 and A-2 (or for R-1 appropriate regulations residential use or occupancy,
buildings/structures class and R-2 class) buildings/ characterized mainly as a low-
2. Leased single-detached dwelling unit, structures rise or medium-rise building/
cottage with more than one (1) 2. Branch library and museum structure for exclusive use as
independent unit and duplexes. 3. Hometel multiple family dwellings with
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structure may include low-rise or
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4. Multiple-housing units for lease or still for condominium buildings that

sale are already commercial in
5. Townhouses, each privately owned nature and scale. There
6. Boarding houses shall be two (2) general
7. Accessorias (shop-houses), rowhouses, types of R-3 use or
townhouses, tenements and apartments occupancy, to wit:
8. Multiple privately-owned condominium a. Basic R-3 : rowhouse
units or tenement houses (residential building/structure of from
building for the exclusive use of non- one (1) storey up to three (3)
leasing occupants not exceeding ten (10) storeys in height and with
persons and of low—rise type (up to five each unit for separate use
(5) storeys maximum building height) as single-family dwellings;
9. Hotels, motels, inns, pension houses and and
apartels b. Maximum R-3 : medium-rise
10. Private or off-campus dormitories. multi-level building/ structure
11. Elementary schools and high schools, of from six (6) up to twelve
provided that these will not exceed (12) storeys in height and for
twenty (20) classrooms use as multiple family
dwellings.

Residential R-4 - a medium to

high-density residential use or
occupancy, characterized main-
ly as a low-rise townhouse
building/ structure for exclusive
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individual lot (a townhouse unit)
and generally refers to the
series or rows of R-4
buildings/structures within a
subdivided lot or property (an R-
4 development).
1. Multi-family residential buildings such as Residential R-5 - a very high-
condominium, high-rise residential density residential use or
buildings/structures, multi-level apart- occupancy, characterized
ments, tenements, mass housing, etc. mainly as a medium-rise or
taller than five (5) storeys but not more high-rise condominium
than twelve (12) storeys building/structure for exclusive
use as multiple family dwelling.
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
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art galleries
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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 parlors 1. Government centers to house GI (General Institutional) - a
2. Massage and sauna parlors national, regional or local offices in community to national level of
3. Health studios and reducing salons the area institutional use or occupancy,
4. Billiard halls, pool rooms, bowling alleys 2. Colleges, universities, professional characterized mainly as a low-
and golf clubhouses business schools, vocational and rise, medium-rise or high-rise
5. Dancing schools, disco pads, dance and trade schools, technical schools and building/structure for education-
amusement halls other institutions of higher learning al, training and related activities,
6. Gymnasia, pelota courts and sports 3. General hospitals, medical centers, e.g., schools and related
complex multi-purpose clinics facilities and the like.
4. Scientific, cultural and academic
centers and research facilities except
nuclear, radioactive, chemical and
biological warfare facilities
5. Convention centers and related
facilities
6. Religious structures, e.g., church,
seminary, novitiates
7. Museums
8. Embassies/ consulate
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Group D –
Institutional
(Government and
Health Services)
Division D-1 1. Mental hospitals, mental sanitaria and 1. Welfare homes, orphanages, boys and GI (General Institutional) - a
(Institutional, where mental asylums girls town, home for the aged and the community to national level of
personal liberties of in- 2. Police and fire stations, guard houses like institutional use or occupancy,
mates are restrained, or 3. Jails, prisons, reformatories and 2. Rehabilitation and vocational training characterized mainly as a low-
quarters of those correctional institutions center for ex-convicts, drug addicts, rise, medium-rise or high-rise
rendering public 4. Rehabilitation centers unwed mothers, physically, mentally building/ structure for medical,
assistance and 5. Leprosaria and quarantine station and emotionally handicapped, ex- government service
maintaining peace and sanitaria inmates; and similar administrative and related
order) establishments activities, e.g., hospitals and
3. Military camps/reservations/bases and related health care facilities,
training grounds government offices, military,
4. Penitentiary and correctional institution police and correctional buildings
and the like.
Division D-2 1. Hospitals, sanitaria, and homes for the
(Institutional, buildings aged
for health care) 2. Nurseries for children of kindergarten
age or non-ambulatory patients
accommodating more than five (5)
persons
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Division D-3 1. Nursing homes for ambulatory patients
(Institutional, for 2. School and home, for children over
ambulatory patients or kindergarten age
children over 3. Orphanages
kindergarten age)
Group E –
Business and
Mercantile
(Commercial)
Division E-1 1. All uses allowed in Division B-1 (or for R- 1. Office building 1. Garage for jeepneys and taxis not greater C-1 (Commercial One or Light
(Business and 3 class) buildings/ structures 2. Office condominium than six (6) units in number Commercial) - a neighborhood
Mercantile, where no 2. Gasoline filling and service stations. 3. Department store/shopping center 2. Garage for bus and trucks not greater or community level of
work is done except 3. Storage garage and boat storage. 4 Bookstore and office supply shop than three (3) units in number commercial use or occupancy,
change of parts and 4. Commercial garages and parking 5. Car shop 3. Retailing of CHBs, gravel and sand and characterized mainly as a low-
maintenance requiring buildings, display for cars, tractors, etc. 6. Home appliance store other concrete products rise building/structure for low
no open flames, 5. Bus and railways depots and terminals 7. Photo shop intensity commercial/trade,
welding, or use of highly and offices 8. Flower shop service and business activities,
flammable liquids) 6. Port facilities 9. Bakery and bake shop e.g., one to three (1 to 3) storey
7. Airports and heliport facilities 10. Wine store shopping centers, small offices
8. All other types of transportation 11. Grocery or mixed-use/occupancy
complexes 12. Supermarket buildings and the like.
9. All other types of large complexes for 13. Beauty parlor
public services 14. Barber shop
10. Pawnshops, money shops, photo and 15. Sauna bath and massage clinic
portrait studios, shoeshine/repair stands, 16. Dressmaking and tailoring shops
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11. Bakeshops and bakery goods stores 18. Playcourt, e.g., tennis, bowling, UTS (Utilities, Transportation
billiards and Services) – a range of
12. Stores for construction supplies and 19. Swimming pool utilitarian/functional uses or
building materials such as electrical and 20. Day/night club occupancies, characterized
electronics, plumbing supplies, ceramic 21. Stadium, coliseum, gymnasium mainly as a low-rise or medium-
clay cement and other similar products 22. Other sports and recreational rise building/structure for low to
except CHBs, gravel and sand and other establishments high intensity community
concrete products 23. Restaurants and other eateries support functions, e.g.,
24. Short term special education like terminals/inter-modals/multi-
dancing schools, schools for self- modals and depots
defense, driving schools, speech
clinics
25. Storeroom and warehouse but only
as may be necessary for 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
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33. Convention center and related
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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 stores 1. All uses in C-1 class buildings/ C-2 (Commercial Two or
2. Shopping centers, malls and structures may be allowed in C-2 class 1. Institutional uses as colleges and Medium Commercial) - a
(Business and
supermarkets buildings/structures universities, vocational and technical municipal or city level of
Mercantile in nature)
3. Wet and dry markets 2. Repair shops like house appliances, schools, general hospitals and commercial use or occupancy,
4. Restaurants, drinking and dining motor vehicles and accessory, home specialized general welfare, charitable characterized mainly as a
and government institutions
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hundred (100) occupancies. 2. Hauling services and garage terminals for medium to high intensity
5. Day/night clubs, bars, cocktails, for trucks, tow trucks, and buses not commercial/ trade, service and
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sing-along lounges, bistros, pubs, beer 3. Transportation terminal/garage with exceeding three (3) units and storage business activities, e.g., three to
gardens repair shops facilities in support of commercial five (3 to 5) storey shopping
6. Bakeries, pastry and bake shops. 4. Publishing establishments centers, medium to large office
7. Office buildings 5. Medium scale junk shop 4. Auto sales and rentals, automotive or mixed use/occupancy
8. Financial Institutions 6. Machinery display shop/center handicraft, accessory and spare parts buildings/structures and the like.
9. Printing & publishing plants and offices 7. Gravel and sand shops, marine craft, aircraft and sales
10. Engraving, photo developing and printing 8. Lumber/hardware yards
shops 9. Manufacture of ice, ice blocks, 5. Junk shops, scrap dealer shops SPE (Special) – other vertical
11. Photographer and painter studios, cubes, tubes, crushed except dry ice facilities not mentioned under
tailoring and haberdashery shops 10. Manufacture of signs and advertising regular uses/occupancies of
12. Factories and workshops, using less displays (except printed) buildings/structures such as
flammable or non-combustible materials 11. Chicharon factory cemeteries, memorial parks and
13. Battery shops and repair shops 12. Welding shops the like
14. Paint stores without bulk handling 13. Machine shops service operations
15. Funeral parlors (repairing/rebuilding, or custom job
16. Memorial and mortuary chapels, orders)
crematories 14 Motorcycles/bicycles repair shops
17. Columbarium 15. Lechon stores
18. Telephone and telegraph exchanges 16. Biscuit factory - manufacture of
19. Telecommunications, media and public biscuits, cookies, crackers and other
information complexes including radio similar dried bakery products
and TV broadcasting studios 17. Doughnut and hopia factory
20. Cell (mobile) phone towers 18. Factory for other bakery products not
21. Battery shops and auto repair shops elsewhere classified (n.e.c.)
22. Bakeries, pastry and bake shops 19. Shops for repacking of food products
23. Police and fire stations e.g. fruits, vegetables, sugar and
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24. Glassware and metalware stores, 20. Funeral parlors, mortuaries and
household equipment and appliance crematory services and memorial
shops chapels
25. Manufacture of insignia, badges and 21. Parking lots, garage facilities
similar emblems except metal 22. Buildings/structures for other
26. General retail establishments such as commercial activities not elsewhere-
curio or antique shops, pet shops and classified (n.e.c.)
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
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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
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Division E-3 1. All permitted uses in Division E-1 (or for 1. All uses allowed in R-1, R-2 and R-3 C-3 (Commercial Three or
(Business and C-1 and C-2 class) buildings/ structures Zones Metropolitan Commercial)
Mercantile, where no 2. Aircraft hangars 2. All uses allowed in C-1, C-2 and C-3 means a metropolitan level of
repair work is done 3. Commercial parking lots and garages Zones commercial use/occupancy,
except exchange of 4. Department stores, shopping malls/ 3. Some uses allowed in I-1 Zones characterized mainly as a
parts and maintenance centers, commercial and sports 4. All uses allowed in GI Zones and SI medium-rise to high-rise
requiring no open complexes/ areas Zones building/structure for high to
flames, welding or use 5. Institutional uses as university complexes 5. Parks and Recreation and very high intensity commercial/
of highly flammable 6. Other commercial/ business activities not Entertainment class buildings/ trade, service and business
liquid) elsewhere classified (n.e.c.) structures activities, e.g., large to very
large shopping malls, very large
office or mixed-use/occupancy
buildings and the like.
Group F –
Industrial (Non-
Pollutive/ Non-
Hazardous
Industries and
Non-Pollutive/
Hazardous
Industries)
Division F-1 1. Ice plants and cold storage buildings Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative I-1 (Industrial One) - a light
(Light Industrial) 2. Power plants (thermal, hydro or such as housing, community, utilities and environmental impact industrial use or occupancy,
geothermal) services characterized mainly as a low-
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drainage, sewerage, irrigation and waste structure for low intensity
treatment plants) manufacturing or production
4. Dairies and creameries 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, buildings for storing Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative I-2 (Industrial Two) - a medium
(Medium Industrial, gasoline, acetylene, LPG, calcium, such as housing, community, utilities and environment impact industrial use or occupancy,
which shall include carbides, oxygen, hydrogen, and the like services characterized mainly as a low-
storage and handling of 2. Armories, arsenals and munitions rise but sprawling building/
factories
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flammable materials) 3. Match and fireworks factories manufacturing or production
activities.
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4. Plastics resin plants (monomer and
polymer) UTS (Utilities, Transportation
5. Plastics compounding and processing and Services) – a range of
plants utilitarian/functional uses/
6. Acetylene and oxygen generating plants occupancies, characterized
7. Cooking oil and soap processing plants mainly by low-rise or medium-
8. Factories for highly flammable chemicals rise buildings/structures for low
9. Water and power generation/ distribution to high intensity community
complexes support functions, e.g., power
10. Liquid and solid waste management and water generation/
facilities distribution facilities,
11. All other types of large complexes for telecommunication facilities,
public utilities drainage/wastewater and
sewerage facilities, solid waste
handling facilities and the like
excluding terminals/inter-
modals/multi-modals and depot
Division G-2 1. All uses permitted in I-1 class Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative
(Medium Industrial 2. Dry cleaning plants using flammable such as housing, community, utilities and environment impact
buildings for storage and liquids services
handling of flammable 3. Paint stores with bulk handling
materials) 4. Paint shops and spray painting rooms
5. Sign and billboard painting shops
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Division G-3 1. Wood working establishments, lumber Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative
(Medium Industrial and timber yards such as housing, community, utilities and environment impact
buildings for wood 2. Planing mills and sawmills, veneer plants services
working activities, 3. Wood drying kilns
papers cardboard 4. Pulp, paper and paperboard factories
manufactures, textile 5. Wood and cardboard box factories
and garment 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 and shops Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative
(Medium Industrial, for 2. Factories for engines and turbines and such as housing, community, utilities and environment impact
repair garages and attached testing facilities services
engine manufacture)

Division G-5 1. Hangars Customary support facilities for industries Building/structure with lesser negative
(Medium Industrial, for 2. Manufacture and assembly plants of such as housing, community, utilities and environment impact
aircraft facilities) aircraft engine services
3. Repairs and testing shops for aircraft
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Group H –
Assembly for less
than 1,000
(Cultural and/ or
Recreational)
Division H-1 1. Theaters and auditoriums PRE (Park Structures,
(Recreational, which are 2. Concert halls and open houses Recreation and Entertainment) -
assembly buildings with 3. Convention halls a range of recreational uses or
stage and having an 4. Little theaters, audio-visual rooms occupancies, characterized
occupant load of less mainly as a low-rise or medium-
than 1,000) 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.

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mainly as a low-rise or medium-
rise building/ structure for
cultural 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, ballrooms
(Recreational, which are 2. Skating rinks
assembly buildings with 3. Cockfighting arenas
stage and having an
occupant load of 300 or
more)
Division H-3 1. Dance halls, ballrooms
(Recreational, which are 2. Skating rinks
assembly buildings with
stage and having an
occupant load of less
than 300)
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Division H-4 1. Sports stands
(Recreational, tourism 2. Reviewing stands
estate developments or 3. Grandstand and bleachers
tourism-oriented 4. Covered amusement parks
establishments, which 5. Boxing arenas, jai-alai stadiums
are structures not 6. Race tracks and hippodromes
included in Divisions H- 7. All types of resort complexes
1) 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 complexes 1. Parks/gardens CUL (Cultural) - a community to
(Recreational, Assembly 2. Theaters and convention centers 2. Resort areas, e.g., beaches, including national level of cultural use or
Buildings with stage and 3. Concert halls and open houses accessory uses occupancy, characterized
an occupant load of 4. Convention centers 3. Open air or outdoor sports activities mainly as a low-rise or medium-
1,000 or more in the and support facilities, including low rise rise building/structure for
building) stadia, gyms, amphitheaters and cultural activities
swimming pools
4. Golf courses, ball courts, race tracks PRE (Park Structures,
and similar uses Recreation and Entertainment) -
5. Memorial/Shrines/monuments, kiosks a range of recreational uses or
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occupancies, characterized
6. Sports Club mainly as a low-rise or medium-
7. Underground parking structures/ rise building/ structure for low to
facilities 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.
Group J –
Accessory
(Agricultural and
Other
Occupancies/
Uses not
Specifically
Mentioned Under
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Division J-1 1. Agricultural structures: 1. Cultivation, raising and growing of A (Agricultural) - an agricultural
a. Sheds staple crops such as rice, corn, or agriculture-related use or
b. Barns camote, cassava and the like occupancy, characterized
c. Poultry houses 2. Growing of diversified plants and mainly as a low-rise or medium-
d. Piggeries trees, such as fruit and flower bearing rise building/structure for low to
e. Hatcheries trees, coffee, tobacco, etc. high intensity agricultural or
f. Stables 3. Silviculture, mushroom culture, fishing related activities, e.g., poultry
g. Greenhouses and fish culture, snake culture, houses, hatcheries, piggeries,
h. Granaries crocodile farm, monkey raising and the greenhouses, granaries and the
i. Silos like like as well as offices,
4. Customary support facilities such as educational, training, research
palay dryers and rice threshers and and related facilities for
storage barns and warehouses agriculture and the like.
5. Ancillary dwelling units/farmhouses for
tillers and laborers
6. Agricultural research and AI (Agro-Industrial) - an agro-
experimentation facilities such as industrial or related use or
breeding stations, fish farms, occupancy, characterized
nurseries, demonstration farms, etc. mainly as a low-rise building/
7. Pastoral activities such as goat-raising structure for low to high intensity
and cattle fattening agro-industrial or related
8. Home occupation for the practice of activities to include offices,
one's profession or engaging home educational, training, research
business such as dressmaking, and related facilities for agro-
tailoring, baking, running a sari-sari industry.
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PUD (Planned Unit
business/industry shall not exceed five Development) - refers to land
(5), inclusive of the owner; there shall development or redevelopment
be no change in the outside schemes for a new or built-up
appearance of the building premises; project site wherein said project
no home occupation shall be site must have a
conducted in any customary accessory Comprehensive Development
uses cited above; no traffic shall be Master Plan (CDMP) or its
generated by such home occupation in acceptable equivalent, i.e., a
greater volume than would normally be unitary development plan/site
expected in a residential neighborhood plan that permits flexibility in
and any need for parking generated by planning/urban design,
the conduct of such home occupation building/structure siting,
shall be met off the street in a place complementarity of building
other than the required front yard; no types and land uses, usable
equipment or process shall be used in open spaces for general public
such occupation which creates noise, use services and
vibration, glare, fumes, odors and
electrical interference detectable to the
normal senses and visual or audible
interference in any radio or television
receiver or causes fluctuations in line
voltage of the premises.
9. Home industry classified as cottage
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making, food preservation, etc.
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not occupy more than 30% of floor
area of the dwelling unit;
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there shall be no change or alteration
in the outside appearance of the
dwelling unit and shall not be a hazard
or nuisance; allotted capitalization
shall not exceed the capitalization as
set by the Department of Trade and
Industry (DTI); such shall consider
same provisions as enumerated in
Home Occupation, this Section.
10. Backyard raising of livestock and fowl,
provided that for livestock- a maximum
of 10 heads; for fowl. a maximum of
500 birds
11. All uses allowed in agriculture
12. Rice/ corn mills (single pass)
13. Drying, cleaning, curing and
preserving of meat and its by products
and derivatives
14. Drying, smoking and airing of tobacco
15. Flour mill
16. Cassava flour mill
17. Manufacture of coffee
18. Manufacture of unprepared animal
feeds, other grain milling, n.e.c.
19. Production of prepared feeds for
animals
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21. Curing and redrying tobacco leaves
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22. Miscellaneous processing of tobacco
leaves, n.e.c.
23. Weaving hemp textile
24. Jute spinning and weaving
25. Manufacture of charcoal
26. Milk processing plants (Manufacturing
filled, reconstituted or recombined
milk, condensed or evaporated)
27. Butter and cheese processing plants
28. Natural fluid milk processing
(pasteurizing, homogenizing,
vitaminizing, bottling of natural animal
milk and cream related products)
29. Other dairy products, n.e.c.
30. Canning and preserving of fruits and
fruit juices
31. Canning and preserving of vegetables
and vegetable juices
32. Canning and preserving of vegetable
sauces
33. Miscellaneous canning and preserving
of fruit and vegetables, n.e.c.
34. Fish canning
35. Patis factory
36. Bagoong factory
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37. Processing, preserving and canning
of fish and other seafoods, n.e.c.
38. Manufacturing of desiccated
coconut
39. Manufacture of starch and its
products
40. Manufacture of wines from juices of
local fruits
41. Vegetable oiI mills, including
coconut oil
42. Sugarcane milling (centrifugal and
refines)
43. Sugar refining
44. Muscovado sugar mill
45. Cotton textile mill
46. Manufacture/processing of other
plantation crops, e.g., pineapple,
bananas, etc.
47. Other commercial handicrafts and
industrial activities utilizing plant or
animal parts and/or products as raw
materials, n.e.c.
48. Other accessory uses incidental to
agro-industrial activities
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Division J-2 1. Private garages, carports 1. All uses/occupancy permitted in all other
2. Towers, smokestacks and chimneys Divisions (or classes of buildings/ PUD (Planned Unit
(Accessory) 3. Swimming pools including shower and structures) if such uses/occupancy are Development) - refers to land
locker room part of the Planned Unit Development development or redevelopment
4. Fence over 1.80 meters high, separate (PUD) schemes for a new or built-up
fire walls project site wherein said project
5. Steel and/ or concrete tanks site must have a
Comprehensive Development
Master Plan (CDMP) or its
acceptable equivalent, i.e., a
unitary development plan/site
plan that permits flexibility in
planning/ urban design,
building/structure siting,
complementarity of building
types and land uses, usable
open spaces for general public
use services and
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Business activities and the

preservation of significant
natural land features if feasible,
whereby said CDMP must be
duly approved by the LGU
concerned.

Division J-3 1. Stages, platforms and similar

structures
2. Pelota, tennis, badminton or basketball
courts
3. Tombs, mausoleums and niches
4. Aviaries and aquariums and zoo
structures
5. Banks and record vaults
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