PRESIDENTIAL DECREE 957

The Subdivision and Condominium Buyers’ Protective Decree

What PD 957 covers

• Subdivisions

• Condominiums
• Medium cost housing
• Open market housing

 SUBDIVISIONS

Saleable vs. non-saleable

• 70% saleable

• 30%non-saleable

What are non-saleable areas?

• Parks and playgrounds
• Community facilities

• Circulation system

Parks and playgrounds

• Required for projects 1 ha. or more
• 3.5% minimum (20 lots / ha.)

• 9.0% maximum (65 lots / ha.)

• BUTnotlessthan100sqm.

Community facilities
• Multi-purpose center required for projects 1 hectare or bigger
• These areas are non-saleable
Hierarchy of roads

RROW widths
RROW widths
• Major road: 10.0m minimum
• Minor road: 8.0m minimum
• Applies to both medium cost and open market

Planting strips and sidewalks

Minimum lot areas

Minimum lot frontages

Minimum lot: single detached

Minimum lot: duplex

Minimum lot: row house

Block length

Block length

Row house clusters

 Minimum floor areas
• Medium cost = 30sqm.
• Economic = 42sqm.

Setbacks
• Follow NBC.

 CONDOMINIUMS
Minimum sizes of rooms
• Follow NBC.

Parks and playgrounds

• Required if:

– 10 condo units or more

– Project is 1,000 sq.m. or larger
• Maybe waived if a public park is within 800m
• 50sqm.for10condounits

• +3 sq.m. for every additional unit

Parking
• Follow NBC:
– Units with a floor area of 18 sqm.
– 22 sqm. : One slot for every 8 units
Off-site parking
• OK if located 200m way or less from commercial condo.
• OK if located 100m way or less from residential condo.

Roads
• Minimum RROW: 8.00 m

– 6.00m for carriageway

– 2.00m for sidewalk/planting strip
• For hierarchy or roads, follow requirements for subdivisions

Floor areas for condominiums

• Single occupancy
– 18 sq.m.
– 12 sq.m. for students
• Family occupancy

– 22 sq.m. for medium cost
– 36 sq.m. for medium cost