Guidelines

• Service Name: Issuance Of Building Permit

Service Information: The processing and issuance of Building Permit, Ancillary Permit and
Accessory Permit under PD 1096 & BP 220 are mandated by the provisions of the Revised
Implementing Rules and Regulations of the National Building Code of the Philippines and
Batas Pambansa No. 220.
• Service Name: Issuance Of Certification Of “No Objection & No Anticipated Issue/S” To
Trim/ Prune/Cut Trees
Service Information: The City Environment and Natural Resources Office tree
trimming/pruning/cutting certificate is issued to individuals/establishment owners that is
requesting for the purpose. This certification is issued from the LGU as one of the
requirements of DENR-PENRO for the permit to trim/prune/cut trees.
• Service Name: The Issuance of Health Certificate and Pink Card
Service Information: The issuance of the Health Certificate is a provision in the Presidential
Decree No. 856 or the Code on Sanitation of the Philippines
• Service Name: Locational Clearance (LC)
Service Information: A document issued by City Planning and Development Office/Zoning
Administrator that serves as a pre-requisite document in the issuance of Building Permit to
guarantee the structure‘s compliance with the City‘s Comprehensive Land Use Plan.
• Service Name: Issuance Of Mayor's Permit For New Business
Service Information: The Business Permits and Licensing Unit of Mabalacat City is very
eager to welcome and assist the investors who are putting up their business in the City in a
simplified and rationalized business application system in terms of documentary
requirements, procedures, signatories, processing time and costs

Section 1. Title. This Ordinance shall be known and cited as "The Integrated Zoning Ordinance of
the City of San Fernando" and shall be referred to as the

"Ordinance".

TITLE OF THE ORDINANCE

SECTION 1. Title of the Ordinance - This Zoning Ordinance shall be known as the integrated Zoning
Ordinance (ZO) of the City of Mabalacat and shall hereinafter be referred as the Ordinance or ZO.

Section 12.11 Regulations in Commercial -2 (C-2) Zone - A medium to high density commercial
area within the city intended for trade, service and business activities performing complementary/
supplementary functions to the CBD.

PD 1185 - Fire Code

2. PD 856 - Sanitation Code

Water Supply Provisions

• The code includes specific provisions for water supply, stating that standards for
drinking water and their examination shall conform to criteria set by the National
Drinking Water Standards

Fod Establishment Provisions

• The code includes provisions for food establishments, such as the requirement for a
sanitary permit to operate a food establishment for public patronage..
• It also includes requirements for the structural design of food establishments, such as
the construction of floors, walls, ceilings, lighting, and ventilation.

special Establishment Provisions

• The code includes specific provisions for special establishments, such as industrial
hygiene requirements, public swimming or bathing places, rest areas, bus terminals, bus
stops, and service stations, camps and picnic grounds, dancing schools, dance halls, and
night clubs, and tonsorial and beauty establishments.

3. RA 6541 - Structural Code

AN ACT TO ORDAIN AND INSTITUTE A NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF THE PHILIPPINES

SECTION 1.01.05 Building Use Affecting Public Health and Safety

(a) Any building or structure, or any ancillary or accessory facility thereto, and any alteration or
addition to any building or structure already existing, shall conform in all respects to the principles of
safe construction, shall be suited to the purpose for which the building is designed, and shall, in no
case contribute to making the community in which it is located at eyesore, a slum, or a blighted area.

(b) Adequate environmental safeguards shall be observed in the design, construction, and use of any
building or structure for the manufacture and production of any kind of article or product which
constitutes a hazard or nuisance affecting public health and safety, such as explosives, gas, noxious
chemicals, inflammable compounds, or the like.

Sec. 5.01.10: Vent Shafts.

(a) Size. Vent shafts shall have a cross-sectional area of not less than 1/10th of a square meter for
every meter of height of shafts (1 square foot per 10 feet) but not less than 1.00 square meter (10.7
square feet) in any case. No such shaft shall be less than 60 centimeters (2 feet) in its least
dimension.

(b) Skylights. Unless open to the outer air at the top for its full area, such shaft shall be covered by a
skylight having a net area of fixed louver openings equal to the maximum required shaft area.

(c) Air Ducts. Air ducts shall be connected a street or court by a horizontal duct or intake at a point
below the lowest window opening on such shaft. Such duct or intake shall have a minimum
unobstructed cross-sectional area of not less than 0.30 square meter (3.2 square feet) with a
minimum dimension of 30 centimeters (1 foot). The opening to the duct or intake shall not be less
than 30 centimeters (1 foot) above the bottom of the shaft and the street surface or bathroom of
court, at the respective ends of the conduct or intake.

Sec. 5.01.11: Ventilating Skylights

(a) Skylights. Skylights shall have a glass area not less than that required for the window they
replace. They shall be equipped with movable sashes or louvers of an aggregate net area not less than
that required for openable parts in the window they replace or with approved ventilation of equal
efficiency.

(b) Ventilation. Rooms containing industrial heating equipment shall be provided with adequate
artificial means of ventilation to prevent excessive accumulation of hot or polluted air.

Sec. 5.01.12: Artificial Ventilation

(a) General. When artificial ventilation is required, the equipment shall be designed and constructed to
meet the following requirements in air changes.

(1) Business and Workrooms

(1.1) For rooms wholly above grade occupied for office, clerical or administrative purposes, or as
stores, sales, rooms, restaurants, markets, factories, workshops, or machinery rooms, not less than
three changes of air per hour shall be provided.

(1.2) For rooms wholly above grade, occupied as bakeries, hotel or restaurant kitchen, laundries other
than accessory to dwellings, and boiler rooms, of not less than ten changes or air per hour shall be
provided.

(2) Rooms in Public and Institutional Buildings

(2.1) For auditoriums and other rooms used for assembly purposes, not less than 0.85 cubic meter
(30 cubic feet) of air per minute shall be supplied for each person for whom seating or other
accommodation is provided.

(2.2) For wards and dormitories of institutional buildings, not less than 0.85 cubic meter (30 cubic
feet) of air per minute shall be supplied for each person accommodated.

Sec. 6.01.04: Arcades

(a) Arcades shall be constructed on sidewalks when required by local ordinances. The with of the
arcade and its height over affected sidewalks shall be uniform within a block: provided, that, in no
case, shall an arcade be less than 3.00 meters (10 feet) above the establishment sidewalk grade of
the established street.

(a) General. For the purpose of this Section, a marquee shall include by any object or decoration
attached thereto.

(b) Projection and Clearance. The horizontal clearance between the outmost edge of the marquee and
the curb line shall be not less than 30 centimeters (1 foot). The vertical clearance between the
payment or grounds line and the undersurface of the marquee shall be not less than 2.70 meters (9
feet).

(c) Construction. A Marquee shall be constructed of incombustible material or materials of not less
than one-hour fire-resistive construction.t shall provided with the necessary drainage facility.

(d) Location Prohibited. Every marquee shall be so located as not to interfere with the operation of any
exterior standpipe connection or to obstruct the clear passage from stairways or exists from the
building or the installation or maintenance of electroliers.

4. Batas Pambansa 344 - Accessibility law

5. PD 1096 - National Building Code

Section 36. Building Permit - No Building Permit shall be issued by the City Building Official without
a valid Locational Clearance in accordance with the integrated ZO.

Section 37. Business Permit - The Business and Licensing Division shall require a Locational
Clearance for new developments. Should there be any change in the activity or expansion of the
area subject of the Locational Clearance, the owner/developer shall apply for a new Locational
Clearance.

Section 38. Occupancy Permit - No Occupancy Permit shall be issued by the Local Building Official
without certification from the Zoning Administrator/Zoning Officer that the building has complied
with the conditions stated in the Locational Clearance.

Section 22, Site Development Standards. The City/Municipality consider it in the public interest that
all projects are designed and developed in a safe, efficient, and aesthetically pleasing manner. Site
development shall consider the environmental character and limitations of the site and its adjacent
properties. All project elements shall be in complete harmony according to a good design
principles.

4. Developments, such as shopping malls, schools, places of worship, markets, sports stadia and
the like, which attract a significant volume of transportation, such as PUVs and, private vehicles
shall provide adequate onsite parking for the same. These should also provide vehicular loading
and unloading bays so as through street traffic flow will not be impeded.

5. Buffers, silencers, mufflers, enclosures and other noise-absorbing-materials shall be provided to

all noise and vibration-producing operations. Noise levels shall be maintained according to levels
specified in DENR's latest guidelines on the Abatement of Noise and Other Forms of Nuisance.

6. Industrial Waste - industrial plant waste shall be disposed of only in a manner that will not create
any nuisance or danger to adjoining properties or to the community in general.

7. Sewerage Disposal - no sewerage dangerous to the public health, safety and general welfare
shall be discharged to any public sewer system, natural waterway or drainage channel.

Section 32. Environmental Impact Assessment/Statement.construction, development or activities

may be required by the city zoning administration to submit an Initial Environment Examination (IEE)
and/or Environment Impact Statement (EIS).
SECTION 1604. Skylights (a) General – Approved plastics may be used in skylights installed on roofs
of Types I, II or III constructions and all buildings in these categories shall be equipped with an
approved automatic fireextinguishing system in Groups A, B, C, E, F, J, H-3 and H-4 Occupancies:
Except, that:

(1) Approved plastics may be used in any type of construction or occupancy as a fire venting
system when approved by the Building Official.

(2) Plastics may be used in approved skylights in Type II one-hour fire-resistive construction which
are located 300 millimeters or more above the lower flange of the

ceiling. The walls of the skylight well shall be no less ,fire-resistive than the adjacent ceiling.

(3) Where a fire-resistive ceiling is not required in one-storey buildings, approved plastics may be
used in skylights. (b) Installation Requirements

(1) Except in Group A Occupancies, no skylight shall be installed within 3.00 meters of a property
line.

(2) The edges of dome-type skylights shall be properly flashed.

(3) Plastic skylights shall be separated from each other by at least 2.50 meters laterally and 3.00
meters along the slope of the roof. The National Building Code (P.D. 1096) 52 (c) Allowable areas –
The area of individual plastic skylights shall not exceed 10.00 square meters. The total aggregate
area of plastics used in skylights, monitors, and sawtooth glazing shall not exceed twenty percent
of the floor area of the room or occupancy sheltered.

(d) Curb Requirements – Plastic skylights in roofs having a slope of less than 1 in 3 shall have a 100
millimeters high curb. The curb may be omitted where a wire screen not smaller than No. 12 U.S.
gauge with a mesh not larger than 25-millimeters is provided immediately below the skylight. The
screen shall be substantially
mounted below the skylight.
Provision of Facilities

(a) Soap Dispensers

(b) Litterbins

(c) Electronic Hand-

Dryers/Paper Towel
Dispensers

(d) Toilet Paper

Dispensers

(e) Toilet Seat

Sanitizers/Covers

(f) Water Tap Points

within Cubicles

(g) Air Fresheners

(h) WC / Urinal Sanitizers

(i) Coat Hooks

(j) Cleaning Attendant’s Sink & Equipment StorageSpace

For toilets, the provision of the following

user-friendly features is strongly recommended.

(a) Accessible Toilet

(b) Toilet for the Ostomates.

(c) Baby Seats

(d) Diaper Changing Stations

(e) Urinals and WC’s for Children

(g) Signages for cubicle doors

(h) Full-Length Mirrors

(i) Waiting Areas