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Zoning district
A conservation zoning district for existing forests and land suited to tree planting, timber, soil and water protection, or reforestation.
The record terms Atlas News articles explain: permit types and statuses, deed types, zoning districts and land classes. Each definition says no more than its official source.
Zoning district
A conservation zoning district for existing forests and land suited to tree planting, timber, soil and water protection, or reforestation.
Zoning district
A farming zoning district for land with recognized potential for crops and livestock, whose continued farm use is promoted.
Zoning district
A farming zoning district for land whose continued farm use is declared important for the island, including land of high farming potential.
Official term: Aprobado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as approved.
Official term: Solicitud de Recomendación - Arqueología y Conservación Histórica · Permit type
A request for a non-binding written opinion on a proposed action from the permits office's archaeology and historic conservation division.
Official term: Archivado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as archived.
Zoning district
A zoning district for populated non-urban areas and the land around them, to order their development at low intensity and control urban growth.
Official term: Autorización de Régimen de Propiedad Horizontal · Permit type
The permits office's approval of the plans for a building being placed under Puerto Rico's condominium law.
Official term: Autorización de Planos de Inscripción · Permit type
Approval of the maps and documents that present a subdivision or segregation of land for recording in the Property Registry.
Official term: Pre-Consulta – Edificabilidad · Permit type
An optional orientation from the permits office, before filing, on the rules a proposed project must meet. It is not a final decision.
Zoning district
A commercial zoning district for areas serving several neighborhoods, central business areas, dense urban centers and shopping centers.
Zoning district
A zoning district for historic, architectural, archaeological or cultural properties identified by authorities but not in the historic sites register.
Zoning district
A commercial zoning district for areas serving several neighborhoods, and for businesses in the municipalities' founding town centers.
Zoning district
A low-intensity commercial zoning district for shops that meet the daily needs of residents of one or more nearby communities.
Zoning district
A conservation zoning district for land whose features must be kept, such as dunes, beaches, riverbanks, caves and habitats of valued species.
Zoning district
A commercial zoning district in tourism zones whose shops serve residents and visitors without harming the area's tourist character.
Official term: Cancelación por Nota Marginal · Deed type
A cancellation written as a note in the margin of the cancelled entry in the Property Registry, ending that entry's effect.
Official term: Cancelación Por Prescripción · Deed type
The removal of a recorded charge, such as a mortgage, from the Property Registry once the legal time limit to enforce it has passed.
Official term: Cancelación por Inscripción · Deed type
A cancellation recorded as its own main entry in the Property Registry, ending the effect of an earlier entry, rather than as a margin note.
Official term: Cancelación Embargo · Deed type
The removal from the Property Registry of the recorded order that seized a debtor's property.
Official term: Cerrado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as closed.
Official term: SRC · Land classification
Land kept out of urban development but open to non-urban activities such as farming, quarries, heavy industry and infrastructure.
Official term: Permiso Construcción Consolidado · Permit type
One permit that combines the permits for construction, remodeling, demolition and urbanization works.
Official term: Consulta de Construcción · Permit type
A filing for a project whose use is allowed but which needs variances from the building limits of its zoning district.
Official term: Rectificación de Cabida · Deed type
A correction of a property's recorded land area, made through a court ruling, a public deed backed by a survey, or a title proceeding.
Official term: Rectificación · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing with a correction requested.
Zoning district
A zoning district that keeps large spaces open for public recreation, both passive and active.
Zoning district
A zoning district for public or private land used for institutional, civic, educational, cultural, religious, recreational and similar facilities.
Official term: Declaratoria de Herederos · Deed type
A declaration by a court or a notary naming the heirs of a deceased owner, so their inheritance can be recorded.
Official term: Edificación o Terminación de Obra · Deed type
A notary's record attesting that a building exists on a recorded property, so the building can be registered.
Official term: Borrado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as deleted.
Official term: Denegado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as denied.
Official term: Donación · Deed type
A contract in which a donor transfers ownership of a property to someone else free of charge.
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FEMA's federal major disaster declaration for Hurricane Irma in Puerto Rico.
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FEMA's federal major disaster declaration for Hurricane María in Puerto Rico.
Zoning district
A zoning district for tourism and recreation projects where infrastructure allows, keeping the area's scenery and natural conditions.
Official term: Permiso de Corteza Terrestre · Permit type
Written authorization from the permits office to extract, dig, remove or dredge materials from the earth's crust.
Official term: Determinación de Cumplimiento Ambiental Vía Exclusión Categórica · Permit type
A finding that a routine or predictable action needs no further environmental planning.
Official term: Pre-Consulta - Departamento de Evaluación de Cumplimiento Ambiental · Permit type
An optional orientation on environmental compliance, before filing, that identifies the rules that apply. It is not a final decision.
Official term: Declaración de Impacto Ambiental · Permit type
The environmental document filed with the permits office once a proposed action has been found to have a significant environmental impact.
Official term: Recomendación Ambiental · Permit type
A written opinion from the permits office on whether a proposed action complies with the law, needed before filing an environmental assessment or impact statement.
Official term: Solicitud de Recomendación - Medioambiente · Permit type
A request for a non-binding written opinion from the permits office's environment division on whether a proposed action follows the rules that apply.
Official term: Permuta · Deed type
A contract in which two parties transfer to each other ownership of a thing or right in return for another of proportional value.
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FEMA's program of extra grants to governments and some private non-profits for debris removal, emergency protection and restoring public infrastructure after disasters.
Official term: Determinación de Evaluación Ambiental · Permit type
A final finding, based on an environmental assessment, that a proposed action will not have a significant environmental impact.
Official term: Permiso para Generadores de Electricidad · Permit type
One of the general permits that cover the environmental side of works, in this case for electricity generators.
Official term: Solicitud de Recomendación - Salud y Seguridad · Permit type
A request in which the permits office reviews the recommendations of the Health Department, the Fire Bureau and the Police Bureau for construction works.
Official term: Designación de Hogar Seguro por Inscripción · Deed type
An entry in the Property Registry for the owner's main residence that shields it from seizure, except for debts the homestead law lists.
Zoning district
A rural zoning district for industrial projects that need a special location, including land used to extract earth materials.
Zoning district
A light industry zoning district that excludes housing and allows some commercial uses serving the area.
Zoning district
A heavy industry zoning district that excludes housing and allows businesses only in support of the industrial operation.
Official term: Permiso Único Incidental · Permit type
A permit the permits office created to simplify tree cutting authorizations, the consolidated general permit and permits for activities incidental to authorized works.
Official term: Incompleto · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as incomplete.
Official term: Pre-Consulta - Infraestructura · Permit type
An optional orientation from the permits office on infrastructure, before filing, on the rules a proposed project must meet. It is not a final decision.
Official term: Solicitud Recomendación Infraestructura · Permit type
A request filed with the permits office before a construction permit or consultation, to check whether infrastructure is available for a project.
Official term: Venta Judicial · Deed type
A court-ordered sale at public auction of a property seized to pay a debt; the court marshal signs the deed that transfers it.
Official term: Venta Judicial (Ejecución de Hipoteca - Ley 210) · Deed type
A sale at public auction in a mortgage foreclosure, where the court marshal signs the deed that transfers the property.
Official term: Arrendamiento · Deed type
A lease of real estate entered in the Property Registry, which the registry law allows for leases of six years or more or when the parties agree.
Official term: Pre-Consulta – Legal · Permit type
An optional orientation from the permits office, before filing, that checks a proposed project against the laws that apply. It is not a final decision.
Official term: Liquidación de Bienes Gananciales · Deed type
The division of what spouses held together during the marriage, between them or with the heirs, when the marriage ends.
Official term: Consulta de Ubicación · Permit type
The procedure in which the permits office or an autonomous municipality decides on proposed land uses that the rules do not allow outright.
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The Puerto Rico public corporation created to carry out the reuse plan and economic development of the former Roosevelt Roads naval station's lands.
Zoning district
A zoning district for overcrowded areas with lots too small, poor access, missing public services or other harmful conditions.
Official term: Lotificación Ministerial · Permit type
Written authorization to develop land, such as utilities, earthwork and streets, without building structures, as the permits office describes it.
Official term: Hipoteca · Deed type
A security right over real estate, which stays with the debtor or a third party, that guarantees an obligation.
Official term: Anotación de Demanda · Deed type
A preventive entry in the Property Registry recording a lawsuit over the property, so later buyers or lenders are treated as notified.
Official term: Testamento Abierto · Deed type
A will made before a notary, who writes the testator's wishes in a public deed.
Zoning district
A zoning district for coastal areas reserved for swimmers, sea bathing and related passive recreation.
Zoning district
A zoning district for unique, fragile or endangered natural resources that must be protected for contemplation or scientific study.
Official term: Adjudicación y/o Partición · Deed type
The division of jointly held assets, such as an inheritance, assigning specific properties or shares to each co-owner.
Official term: Dación en Pago · Deed type
A contract in which a debtor transfers a property to the creditor, who accepts it as payment of the debt.
Official term: Pendiente · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as pending.
Official term: Pre-aprobado · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as pre-approved.
Official term: Pre-Consulta - Recomendaciones sobre Uso · Permit type
An optional orientation from the permits office on a proposed use, before filing, that identifies the rules that apply. It is not a final decision.
Zoning district
A zoning district for low-density housing, for areas of future urban growth and for keeping the residential character of built areas.
Zoning district
A zoning district mixing homes and businesses to create local activity centers without the businesses harming the residential character.
Zoning district
A zoning district along designated scenic routes that controls land uses on their edges so the landscape can be enjoyed.
Zoning district
A risk zoning district for land declared permanent open space under federal rules because of hazards such as severe floods or landslides.
Zoning district
A rural zoning district made up mostly of soils that have some limitations for farming.
Zoning district
A zoning district of intermediate density for residential areas, built or buildable, where different types of housing are allowed.
Zoning district
A high-density residential zoning district on urban land near main centers of economic activity, where infrastructure exists or can be provided.
Zoning district
A zoning district for large commercial recreation centers, developed through a construction consultation.
Official term: Solicitud de Revisión Administrativa · Permit type
A request from a party harmed by a final permits decision, asking the Administrative Review Division to review that decision.
Official term: Permiso de Uso Residencial · Permit type
Written authorization from the permits office, an authorized professional or an autonomous municipality to use land or buildings for housing.
Official term: Sistema Vial · Land classification
The label for the road system, which Puerto Rico's land use plan leaves outside its land classes.
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The former U.S. Navy station in Ceiba and Naguabo that federal law ordered closed under the military base closure process.
Zoning district
A residential zoning district in tourism zones for land developed or developable at high density and intensity.
Zoning district
A residential zoning district in tourism zones for land developed or developable at intermediate density and intensity.
Zoning district
A zoning district for land or buildings of historic, architectural or cultural value already listed in the Planning Board's register of historic sites.
Official term: Compraventa · Deed type
A contract in which a seller agrees to transfer ownership of a property to a buyer, who agrees to pay a set price.
Official term: Compraventa de Participación · Deed type
A sale in which one co-owner sells an undivided share of a property held by several owners.
Official term: SURP · Land classification
Land the land use plan considers fit to be urbanized to absorb expected growth, with its infrastructure programmed.
Official term: Segregación · Deed type
Splitting off part of a recorded property to form a new property, recorded under its own number in the Property Registry.
Official term: Permiso Simple Extracción Material Corteza Terrestre - PSI · Permit type
Written authorization from the permits office to extract, dig, remove or dredge earth materials on a small scale.
Official term: Permiso Único · Permit type
One application that bundles the use permit, environmental compliance, fire prevention certification, sanitary license and other approvals a business needs to operate.
Official term: SREP · Land classification
Rural land that, for its ecological, farming, scenic or hazard value, should never be planned as urban land.
Official term: SREP-AE · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for farming and for its ecology.
Official term: SREP-AP · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for farming and for its landscape.
Official term: SREP-AH · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for farming and for its water.
Official term: SREP-A · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued for farming, kept so it can be used for crops and livestock.
Official term: SREP-EA · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for its ecology and for farming.
Official term: SREP-EP · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for its ecology and for its landscape.
Official term: SREP-EH · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued both for its ecology and for its water.
Official term: SREP-E · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued for its ecology, such as natural reserves and state forests.
Official term: SREP-P · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued for its landscape, protected for its scenic beauty.
Official term: SREP-R · Land classification
Specially protected rural land exposed to hazards such as floods, landslides, storm surge or sinkholes.
Official term: SREP-H · Land classification
Specially protected rural land valued for water, tied to reservoirs, main rivers and water catchment areas.
Official term: Variación a Lotificación · Permit type
A request to be excused from one or more zoning requirements when dividing a property into lots.
Official term: Expediente de Dominio · Deed type
A court process in which an owner without a recordable title proves ownership, so it can be recorded in the Property Registry.
Official term: Inspección · Permit status
The permits system lists the filing as under inspection.
Official term: SNP · Land classification
Land meant for future urbanization that still needs an approved expansion plan before it is programmed.
Official term: SU · Land classification
Land served by roads, water, electricity and other infrastructure in areas already built up. The class alone does not make a lot buildable.
Official term: Solicitud de Recomendación - Recomendaciones de Uso · Permit type
A request for a non-binding written opinion from the permits office's use division on whether a proposed action complies.
Official term: Agua · Land classification
The label for bodies of water, which Puerto Rico's land use plan leaves outside its land classes.