Setback Provisions

IRR National Building Code of the Philippines under PD 1096 2005 Revised
RULE VII - CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL
REQUIREMENTS OF ALL BUILDINGS BY USE OR OCCUPANCY

SECTION 803 Percentage of Site Occupancy

Article 4. Minimum Requirements for Total Open Spaces within Lot (TOSL)

(b) Group A buildings or Residential 1 (R-1) uses/occupancies shall follow the minimum
yard standards in Table VIII.2. to comply with the TOSL requirement.

(c) Abutments for Basic Uses/Occupancies forming part of new developments shall be
basically similar to the restrictions prescribed for firewalls under Rule VII, to wit:

i. Absolutely no abutments are allowed at any property line for any R-1 lot type/location.

Republic Act of the Philippines 386 Civil Code of the Philippines

Section 5 Easement of Light & View

ARTICLE 670. No windows, apertures, balconies, or other similar projections which afford
a direct view upon or towards an adjoining land or tenement can be made, without
leaving a distance of two meters between the wall in which they are made and such
contiguous property.

Neither can side or oblique views upon or towards such conterminous property be had,
unless there be a distance of sixty centimeters.

The nonobservance of these distances does not give rise to prescription. (582a)
ARTICLE 671. The distances referred to in the preceding article shall be measured in cases
of direct views from the outer line of the wall when the openings do not project, from the
outer line of the latter when they do, and in cases of oblique view from the dividing line
between the two properties. (583)

ARTICLE 672. The provisions of article 670 are not applicable to buildings separated by a
public way or alley, which is not less than three meters wide, subject to special regulations
and local ordinances. (584a)

ARTICLE 673. Whenever by any title a right has been acquired to have direct views,
balconies or belvederes overlooking an adjoining property, the owner of the servient
estate cannot build thereon at less than a distance of three meters to be measured in the
manner provided in article 671. Any stipulation permitting distances less than those
prescribed in article 670 is void. (585a)

Basement Provisions

RULE VII - CLASSIFICATION AND GENERAL

REQUIREMENTS OF ALL BUILDINGS BY USE OR OCCUPANCY
SECTION 707 Maximum Height of Buildings
ARTICLE F Basement 1. Maximum Configuration of Basement Levels (b) For basements to
be allowed, the prescribed setbacks and yards must be satisfied for the building/structure
above grade in as much as the very same setbacks shall apply below grade to determine
the maximum depth or width of the basement level;