Guide to Development Permit under the City Planning Act (from April 1, 2025)

・March 14, 2025 A partially revised guide has been released. The revised guide will come into effect on April 1, 2025.
・April 1, 2024 Partial revision of the Guideline. For details, here is a summary of the revision (PDF: 145KB) / New comparison (PDF: 800KB)
・For newly formulated or revised standards and handling, please refer to <Standards / Handling Revision History>.

Depending on the purpose of use, you can use it as follows.

• If you would like to know the necessity of a development permit and an overview of the system, please refer to "Systems".
• Person applying for development permission in urbanization area, please see "procedure" and "technical standard".
• Person applying for development permission in urbanization adjustment area, please see "hand sequel", "technical standard" and "location standard".
• Person applying for building permission in urbanization adjustment area, please see "procedure" and "location standard".

■Full volume (PDF: 11,153KB)
■At the beginning
■Contents
■"Systems"
…We publish summary of development permission system or interpretation of Motoichi about definition such as "development act" to establish by laws and regulations.

• Chapter 1 Purpose of the Development Permit System
• Chapter 2 Overview of Development Permit System
• Chapter 3 Definition
• Chapter 4 Development Register
• Chapter 5 Development Board
• Chapter 6 Related Laws and Regulations
• Chapter 7 Other Handling, etc.

■Procedures
…Preliminary procedures required for permission, required items, application documents and other procedures after permission are posted.

• Chapter 1 Procedure Flow for Development Permits
• Chapter 2 Prior Procedures, etc.
• Chapter 3 Procedures from application for development permit to public notice of completion
• Chapter 4 Other procedures related to development permits
• Chapter 5 Procedure of Building Permit in Urbanization Control Areas
• Chapter 6 Other
• Chapter 7 Standards for Procedures

■Technical Standards
　…We publish standard of permission necessary for the making of development permission application book.

• Chapter 1 General Rules
• Chapter 2 Preliminary Survey on Development Plans
• Chapter 3 Standards for Use of Buildings, etc.
• Chapter 4 Standards for Open Space for Public Use
• Chapter 5 Standards for Drainage Facilities
• Chapter 6 Standards for Water Supply Facilities
• Chapter 7 Standards for Public Interest Facilities
• Chapter 8 Standards for Measures Required for Safety
• Chapter 9 Standards for Areas prescribed in Article 33, Paragraph 1, Item 8 of the Act
• Chapter 10 Standards for Measures such as Conservation of Trees
• Chapter 11 Criteria concerning the credit of applicants
• Chapter 12 Standards for Capacity of Construction Enforcers
• Chapter 13 Criteria for Consent of Right Holders Who Prevent Development Activities
• Chapter 14 Standards for Sites and Blocks
• Chapter 15 Standards for Restrictions stipulated in the Landscape Plan

■"Location Standards"
…We publish standards of development, building act that we can permit in urbanization adjustment area.

• Chapter 1 General Rules
• Chapter 2 Common Standards
• Chapter 3 Standards for Permission for Locations Related to Article 34 of the Act
• Chapter 4 Examination Standards for Class 2 Specific Workpieces
• Chapter 5 Handling of proviso of Article 29 of the Act

■"Documents"
…We publish detailed (city enforcement detailed regulations) necessary for the enforcement of development permission system in Motoichi and style necessary for application.

• Yokohama City Planning Act Enforcement Detailed Regulations
• Application and Notification Form

※　Download the application / notification form for submission to the form and description example of the development permission.

Please refer to the following link for details. →　Guide for Development Permit (~ March 31, 2025) (PDF: 7,557KB)

For specific details in a specific location, please contact the person in charge of each area.
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