yangon land use & building height zoning plan1

Working Committee Members

• U Maung Maung Zaw (Head of Department, Building Department)

• U Yi Win (Head of Department, Coordination Department)

• Dr. Kyaw Latt (Advisor, YCDC)

• U Toe Aung (Head of the UPU, YCDC)

• Daw Hlaing Maw Oo (SE-Architect / Urban Planner, MOC)

• Daw Moe Moe Lwin (Director, YHT)

• Daw Tin Tin Kyi (ACE, YCDC)

• Dr. Su Su (Professor/Head, MTU, MOST)

• Daw Hla Su Myat (EC member, Consultant CQHP, AMA)

• JICA Study Team

YANGON LAND USE & BUILDING HEIGHT ZONING PLAN

Yangon City Comprehensive Land use , Zoning and Urban Design Review Working Committee

62’ ~ 78’ Area

< AMS 190’ Area

Building Height Allowed

Shwe Dagon Pagoda

Conservation Zone 1

62’ ~ 78’ Area

Shwe Dagon Pagoda

Conservation Zone 2

<AMS 190’ Area

V i s u a l A x i s t o w a r d s S h w e D a g o n P a g o d a

Sule Pagoda Road Sky Line



Definition of Building Coverage Ratio (BCR)

• Building Coverage Area is defined to be the area delimited by the

outer most edge line of the building when projected from the top. The

outer most edge line can be the roof line or the parapet line or

combination of both and the outer most edge of any element

protruding from the building. If and unroofed court yard is included,

the court yard area that is not under the roof may be excluded.


Building Coverage Ratio(BCR) = Building Coverage Area

Plot Area

Building Coverage Ratio (BCR)


Building Area

Plot Building Coverage Area


Definition of Floor Area Ratio (FAR)

Floor Area Ratio = Total Floor Area

Plot Area


• Floor Area Ratio is the proportion of the total floor area of the building to the plot

area. The area used for car parking in basement levels and on ground floor will

be excluded from the floor area calculation. Conversion of Car Parking to any

other use will not be allowed at any time.


Density configurations on one hectare


BCR=0.1

FAR=2

BCR=0.5

FAR=2

BCR=0.3

FAR=2

(328’ x 328’)

Floor Area & Building Coverage Ratio Chart

No. of Storeyed

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F A R (Floor Area Ratio)

1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 10.5 11 11.5 12

0.1 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 60 65 70 75 80 85 90 95 100 105 110 115 120

0.15 6.7 10.0 13.3 16.7 20.0 23.3 26.7 30.0 33.3 36.7 40.0 43.3 46.7 50.0 53.3 56.7 60.0 63.3 66.7 70.0 73.3 76.7 80.0

0.2 5.0 7.5 10.0 12.5 15.0 17.5 20.0 22.5 25.0 27.5 30.0 32.5 35.0 37.5 40.0 42.5 45.0 47.5 50.0 52.5 55.0 57.5 60.0

0.25 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0 18.0 20.0 22.0 24.0 26.0 28.0 30.0 32.0 34.0 36.0 38.0 40.0 42.0 44.0 46.0 48.0

0.3 3.3 5.0 6.7 8.3 10.0 11.7 13.3 15.0 16.7 18.3 20.0 21.7 23.3 25.0 26.7 28.3 30.0 31.7 33.3 35.0 36.7 38.3 40.0

0.35 2.9 4.3 5.7 7.1 8.6 10.0 11.4 12.9 14.3 15.7 17.1 18.6 20.0 21.4 22.9 24.3 25.7 27.1 28.6 30.0 31.4 32.9 34.3

0.4 2.5 3.8 5.0 6.3 7.5 8.8 10.0 11.3 12.5 13.8 15.0 16.3 17.5 18.8 20.0 21.3 22.5 23.8 25.0 26.3 27.5 28.8 30.0

0.45 2.2 3.3 4.4 5.6 6.7 7.8 8.9 10.0 11.1 12.2 13.3 14.4 15.6 16.7 17.8 18.9 20.0 21.1 22.2 23.3 24.4 25.6 26.7

0.5 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 17.0 18.0 19.0 20.0 21.0 22.0 23.0 24.0

0.55 1.8 2.7 3.6 4.5 5.5 6.4 7.3 8.2 9.1 10.0 10.9 11.8 12.7 13.6 14.5 15.5 16.4 17.3 18.2 19.1 20.0 20.9 21.8

0.6 1.7 2.5 3.3 4.2 5.0 5.8 6.7 7.5 8.3 9.2 10.0 10.8 11.7 12.5 13.3 14.2 15.0 15.8 16.7 17.5 18.3 19.2 20.0

0.65 1.5 2.3 3.1 3.8 4.6 5.4 6.2 6.9 7.7 8.5 9.2 10.0 10.8 11.5 12.3 13.1 13.8 14.6 15.4 16.2 16.9 17.7 18.5

0.7 1.4 2.1 2.9 3.6 4.3 5.0 5.7 6.4 7.1 7.9 8.6 9.3 10.0 10.7 11.4 12.1 12.9 13.6 14.3 15.0 15.7 16.4 17.1

0.75 1.3 2.0 2.7 3.3 4.0 4.7 5.3 6.0 6.7 7.3 8.0 8.7 9.3 10.0 10.7 11.3 12.0 12.7 13.3 14.0 14.7 15.3 16.0

0.8 1.3 1.9 2.5 3.1 3.8 4.4 5.0 5.6 6.3 6.9 7.5 8.1 8.8 9.4 10.0 10.6 11.3 11.9 12.5 13.1 13.8 14.4 15.0

0.85 1.2 1.8 2.4 2.9 3.5 4.1 4.7 5.3 5.9 6.5 7.1 7.6 8.2 8.8 9.4 10.0 10.6 11.2 11.8 12.4 12.9 13.5 14.1

0.9 1.1 1.7 2.2 2.8 3.3 3.9 4.4 5.0 5.6 6.1 6.7 7.2 7.8 8.3 8.9 9.4 10.0 10.6 11.1 11.7 12.2 12.8 13.3

0.95 1.1 1.6 2.1 2.6 3.2 3.7 4.2 4.7 5.3 5.8 6.3 6.8 7.4 7.9 8.4 8.9 9.5 10.0 10.5 11.1 11.6 12.1 12.6

1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 8.5 9.0 9.5 10.0 10.5 11.0 11.5 12.0


စိမ်းလန်းမမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်‌များနှင်‌့ပတ်သက်၍စဉ်းစားသင်‌့မသာအချက်များ

• ေန်ကနု်မြ ို့တငွ်အများပေ ည်သမူျားအကျိုးဌာ‌

စိမး်လနး်မမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်အဖေ စ်သတမ်ှတ်ခေ င်း

• စိမး်လနး်မမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်အမျိုးအစားခဲွခေ ားသတမ်ှတေ်ခင်း

• စိမး်လနး်‌မေမနငှ်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်အမျိုးအစားအလုိက်လက်ခအံသုံးပေ ုသင့်‌မသာ‌

မမေ အသုံးချမှုများ



Now, Yangon only has 0.4 m2 of ACCESSIBLE green space per inhabitant –

New Yorkers have over 50 times more green space in their city

2

8

Yangon1

Green space per inhabitant, in m2

3.0

11.5

23.1

0.4

New York2

Paris2

Tokyo2

1 YCDC; 2 http://blog.sustainablecities.net/2011/07/13/how-many-metres-of-green-space-does-your-city-have/

Green and open spaces

Source: Frauke Kraas, Hlaing Maw Oo:

Urban Heritage: Key Considerations in Southeast Asia, Myanmar, October 2012

စိမ်းလန်းမမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်‌များနှင်‌့ပတ်သက်၍စဉ်းစားသင်‌့မသာအချက်များ

• စိမး်လနး်မမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်အလိက်ု‌အမြ ဲတမး်အမောကအ်အုမံျားဖေ င်‌့‌

ဖုးံလွှမး်ခွင်‌့ပေ ုသင်‌့သည့်အများေံုးမမေ ဧေယိာောခိုင်နှုန်း

• အကြ ီးေုံးမောက်လုပခ်ွင်‌့ပေ ုသင်‌့သည့်‌အမြ ဲတမး်အမောကအ်အံု

• စိမး်လနး်မမေ နှင်‌့မေပေ င်များဇုန်အမျိုးအစားအလုိက်‌

အများေပည်သလွူတလ်ပစ်ွာ၀င်/ထွက်ခငွ်‌့ပေ ုသင်‌့မသာဧေယိာ



KEY ZONES OF SHWEDAGON ENVIRONS PRESERVATION AREA

THEATRENATIONAL

YUZANA

THE URBAN HERITAGE OF YANGON

TANGIBLE

Human Made Open Space

INTANGIBLE

Uses / Activities / Interactions

Public Open Space / Recreation

Open View to the Shwedagon

PEOPLES’ PARK AND

REVOLUTIONARY PARK

Photo by Regine Spohner

Human Made Open Space

Source: Hlaing Maw Oo:

Urban Heritage in Sustainable Development of Yangon, October 2011



ကန်မတာ်ကြ ီးနငှ်‌့‌ပေ ည်သူ့ဥယျာဥ်စိမ်းလန်းမမေ မနော


Hlaing Maw Oo (a) Maw Oo Hock DHSHD, Ministry of Construction, Naypyitaw,

Myanmar

TANGIBLE

Natural Feature + Human

Intervention Kandawgyi Lake Park and

Recreation

INTANGIBLE


Recreation / Leisure

Public Open Space

Cultural Events

KANDAWGYI LAKE http://www.asiatravelhi.com/kandawgyi-lake-yangon-and-shwedagon-pagoda-in-the-background/

ForUm – Network for Urban Future in Southeast Asia: Sustainable Urban

Future

Nay Pyi Taw / Yangon, Myanmar. 29th September-08 October 2011 THREATS TO THE URBAN HERITAGE OF

YANGON WATER BODIES, GREEN AND OPEN

SPACES

• Environmental Pollution

• Visual Pollution

Hlaing Maw Oo (a) Maw Oo Hock DHSHD, Ministry of Construction, Naypyitaw,

Myanmar

HUMAN MADE OPEN SPACE

• Loss due to poor maintenance

• Encroachment

• Development Control of the

Area


TANGIBLE HERITAGE

Natural / Geographical

Features

Human Built Environment

INTANGIBLE HERITAGE

Uses

Activities

Interactions

Culture

Uses

Activities

Interactions

TANGIBLE

Natural Feature + Human

Intervention

Yangon River + Port Facilities

INTANGIBLE


Inland Transport

International Transport

Recreation / Public Open Space

YANGON RIVER FRONT

Photo by Regine Spohner

PEOPLE’S PERCEPTION

B A H A N T O W N S H I P



D A G O N T O W N S H I P



A r o u n d C B D



Thank you


S h w e D a g o n P a g o d a

C i t y H a l l S a k u r a & T r a d e r s S u l e P a g o d a

yangon land use & building height zoning plan1

Documents

area building height

committee floor area

area ams

floor area calculation

r floor area ratio

urban design review

court yard area

committee bcr