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Housing and Architecture Bureau Standard Processing Period
※These standard processing periods do not include the number of days required for correction, etc.
Last Updated October 1, 2024
| Jurisdiction section, etc. | Laws, ordinances, etc. | Basis clause [Article-(No.)] | Office work related to licensing, etc. | Standard processing period | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total Number of days | Passover Organizations, etc. | Passover Number of days | ||||
| City Planning Division | Survey method | 43 | Approval of duplication of public survey results (topographic maps) | 15 | － | － |
| Approval of reproduction of public survey results (aerial photograph) | 15 | － | － | |||
| City Planning Act | 53-1 | Permission for construction in areas such as city planning facilities | 21 | － | － | |
| 65-1 | Permission for buildings, etc. in the city planning business area | 28 | － | － | ||
| Building Disaster Prevention Section | Act on Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting of Buildings | 17-1 | Certification of plans for seismic retrofitting of buildings | 70 | － | － |
| 18-1 | Change authorization of the plan for seismic retrofitting of buildings | 70 | － | － | ||
| The regulations about promotion of maintenance of Yokohama-shi narrow road | 14-4 | Decision of grant of maintenance promotion subsidy | 30 | － | － | |
| 14-5 | Determination of maintenance promotion subsidy amount | 45 | － | － | ||
| 15-1 | Cancellation of decision of grant of maintenance promotion subsidy | 30 | － | － | ||
| 16-3 | Decide on the implementation of pavement and management by Yokohama City | 30 | － | － | ||
| Municipal Housing Division | Yokohama Municipal Housing Ordinance | 10 | Notification of resident qualification screening results | 30 | － | － |
| Yokohama City Improvement Housing Ordinance | 5-2 | Notification of resident qualification screening results for improved housing | 30 | － | － | |
| Information Counseling Division | Ordinances on Coordination of Yokohama City Development Project | 17-1 | Consent for planning development projects (construction of large-scale apartment houses) | 30 | － | － |
| Ordinance on conservation, etc. of the living environment pertaining to construction and development projects such as middle-high-rise buildings in Yokohama City | 3-2 | Accreditation of exemption of regulations | 14 | － | － | |
| 13-2 | Notification of completion of review of reports such as neighborhood explanations (excluding those with a total floor area of 200 square meters or less) | 30 | － | － | ||
| Notification of completion of examination of report such as neighborhood explanation (those with a total floor area of 200 square meters or less) | 20 | － | － | |||
| Building Planning Division | Building Standard Law | 70-1 | Authorization of Building Agreement | 110 | － | － |
| 74-1 | Authorization of change of building agreement | 110 | － | － | ||
| 76-1 | Approval of the abolition of the building agreement | 110 | － | － | ||
| 76-3-2 | Authorization of a building agreement specified by one person | 110 | － | － | ||
| Yokohama City Scenic Area Ordinance | 2-1(1) | Permission to build buildings, etc. | 15 | － | － | |
| 2-1(2) | Permission to change colors of buildings, etc. | 15 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(3) | Permission to change residential land, etc. | 15 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(4) | Landfill or reclamation of water surface | 15 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(5) | Permission to cut wood and bamboo | 15 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(6) | Permission to collect debris | 15 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(7) | Permission to deposit debris, waste or recycled resources outdoors | 15 | － | － | ||
| Law Concerning the Promotion of Long-Term Excellent Housing | 5-1 | Certification of plans for long-term excellent housing construction (when it has been reviewed in advance by a registered housing performance evaluation organization) | 30※ | － | － | |
| Certification of plans for long-term excellent housing construction (when not reviewed by a registered housing performance evaluation organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| 8-1 | Authorization of change of plan such as long-term excellent house construction (when it has been examined in advance by a registered house performance evaluation organization) | 30※ | － | － | ||
| Change authorization of plan such as long-term excellent house construction (when it has not been examined by registered house performance evaluation organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| 9-1 | Change authorization of plan such as long-term excellent house construction when we decide transferee | 15 | － | － | ||
| 10 | Approval of succession of position | 15 | － | － | ||
| Law Concerning the Promotion of Low-Carbon Urbanization | 53-1 | Certification of low-carbon building new construction plans [things with no floor area ratio exception] (when they have been examined in advance by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 30※ | － | － | |
| Certification of low-carbon building new construction plans [things with floor area ratio exceptions] (when they have been examined in advance by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 50※ | － | － | |||
| Certification of low-carbon building new construction plans (when it has not been reviewed by a registered housing performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| 55-1 | Change authorization of plan such as low-carbon building new construction [thing without floor area ratio exception] (when we received examination by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building investigation organization beforehand) | 30※ | － | － | ||
| Change authorization of plan such as low-carbon building new construction [thing with floor area ratio exception] (when we received examination by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building investigation organization beforehand) | 50※ | － | － | |||
| Authorization of change of plan such as low-carbon building new construction (when it has not been examined by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building survey organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| Law Enforcement Regulations on Promotion of Low-Carbon Urbanization | 46-2 | Issuance of certificates for minor changes | 15 | － | － | |
| Act on Improvement of Energy Consumption Performance of Buildings | 12-1、2 | Building Energy Consumption Performance Conformity Judgment | 42 | － | － | |
| 34-1 | Certification of building energy consumption performance improvement plan [thing without floor area ratio exception] (when it has been examined in advance by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 30※ | － | － | ||
| Authorization of building energy consumption performance improvement plan [thing with floor area ratio exception] (when we received examination by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building investigation organization beforehand) | 50※ | － | － | |||
| Certification of a building energy consumption performance improvement plan (when it has not been reviewed by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| 36-1 | Authorization of change of building energy consumption performance improvement plan [thing without floor area ratio exception] (when we received examination by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building investigation organization beforehand) | 30※ | － | － | ||
| Authorization of change of building energy consumption performance improvement plan [thing with floor area ratio exception] (when we received examination by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building investigation organization beforehand) | 50※ | － | － | |||
| Authorization of change of building energy consumption performance improvement plan (when it has not been examined by registered house performance evaluation organization or registered building survey organization) | 120※ | － | － | |||
| 41-1 | Certification pertaining to the energy consumption performance of buildings (when they have been examined in advance by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 15 | － | － | ||
| Certification pertaining to the energy consumption performance of buildings (when they have not been reviewed by a registered house performance evaluation organization or a registered building survey organization) | 120 | － | － | |||
| Enforcement Regulations on the Improvement of Energy Consumption Performance of Buildings | 11 | Issuance of certificates for minor changes | 42 | － | － | |
| 29 | Issuance of certificates for minor changes | 15 | － | － | ||
| Building Guidance Division | Building Standard Law | 6-1(1)～(3) | Application for confirmation | 35 | － | － |
| Application for confirmation (when structural calculation suitability judgment is required, or if it falls under the proviso of law 6-3-1 or proviso of law 18-4) | 70 | － | － | |||
| 6-1(4) | Application for confirmation | 7 | － | － | ||
| 7-6-1(1), (2) | Temporary use certification | 21 | － | － | ||
| 85-6 | Permission for construction of temporary exhibition halls, etc. | 35 | － | － | ||
| 85-7 | Permission for construction of temporary exhibition halls, etc. (more than one year) | 90 | － | － | ||
| 87-1 | Confirmation of application change | 35 | － | － | ||
| 87 3-6 | Permission for temporary change of use | 35 | － | － | ||
| 87 3-7 | Permits for temporary change of use (more than one year) | 90 | － | － | ||
| 87-4 | Confirmation of construction of building equipment (elevators, etc.) | 7 | － | － | ||
| 88-1 | Confirmation of workpieces (excluding retaining walls) | 7 | － | － | ||
| 88-2 | Confirmation of construction of designated structures | 35 | － | － | ||
| Urban Building Division | Building Standard Law | 3-1(4) | Certification of exemption of law | 60 | － | － |
| 42-1(5) | Designation of road position (limited to the current state-of-the-art type) | 75 | － | － | ||
| 43-2(1) | Certification of exemption of approach duty | 60 | － | － | ||
| 43-2(2) | Permission for exemption of approach duty | 60 | － | － | ||
| 44-1 | Permission to exempt construction restrictions on roads | 90 | － | － | ||
| 47 | Permission to exempt the application of building restrictions by wall lines | 90 | － | － | ||
| 48 | Permission for exemption of building restrictions in restricted zones | 90 | － | － | ||
| 51 | Permission to exempt the location restrictions of special buildings for use in wholesale markets, etc. | 90 | － | － | ||
| 52-10 | Permit (planned road) without front road in floor area ratio calculation | 60 | － | － | ||
| 52-11 | Permission (wall line) without front road in floor area ratio calculation | 60 | － | － | ||
| 52-14 | Special permission for floor area ratio | 60 | － | － | ||
| 53-4, 5 or 6(3) | Permission to exempt the application of restrictions on building coverage rate | 60 | － | － | ||
| 53 2-1(3) or (4) | Permission to exempt the application of the site area restriction of buildings in the first-class low-rise residential area or the second-class low-rise residential area | 60 | － | － | ||
| 55-2 | Certification of the height of buildings in the first-class low-rise residential area or the second-class low-rise residential area | 60 | － | － | ||
| 55-3 | Permission to exempt the application of the height limit of buildings in the first-class low-rise residential area or the second-class low-rise residential area | 60 | － | － | ||
| 2-1 of 56 | Permission to exclude height restrictions for middle and high-rise buildings due to shading | 60 | － | － | ||
| 57-1 | Relaxation of height restrictions for buildings, etc. installed in elevated structures | 60 | － | － | ||
| 59-1(3) | Permission to exempt the restrictions on buildings in advanced use areas | 60 | － | － | ||
| 59-4 | Permission to exempt the application of road diagonal line restrictions in advanced use areas | 60 | － | － | ||
| 2-1 of 59 | Special permission for floor area ratio of buildings with large open space on site | 90 | － | － | ||
| 2-1(3) of 60 | Permission for floor area ratio, building coverage ratio, and height of schools, etc. in the special area for urban regeneration | 60 | － | － | ||
| 68-3-1 | Accreditation of relaxation of floor area ratio of buildings in redevelopment promotion wards, etc. | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68-3-2 | Certification of easing the occupancy rate of buildings in redevelopment promotion zones, etc. | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68 3-3 | Accreditation of relaxation of height of buildings in redevelopment promotion wards, etc. | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68-3-4 | Authorization of relaxation of height of each part of building in promotion wards such as redevelopment | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68-3-7 | Accreditation of exemption of building restrictions on restricted zones, etc. in development and maintenance promotion zones | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68-4-1 | Authorization of floor area ratio of building in areas such as city planning (excluding village city planning) | 45 | － | － | ||
| 68-5-3-2 | Permission to relax the height of each part of the building in areas such as city planning for advanced use and renewal of urban functions | 60 | － | － | ||
| 68-5, 5-1 | Permission to relax the floor area ratio of buildings in areas such as city planning to guide the maintenance of buildings with heights according to the area | 60 | － | － | ||
| 68-5 5-2 | Permission for relaxation of altitude districts of buildings in areas such as city planning to guide the maintenance of buildings with heights according to the area | 60 | － | － | ||
| 68-5, 6-1 | Permission pertaining to the exception of the building coverage rate in areas such as city planning | 60 | － | － | ||
| 68 7-5 | Permit of floor area ratio of building when planned road is specified | 60 | － | － | ||
| 86-1 | Certification of a comprehensive design system for one complex | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86-2 | Certification of Contributory Building Design System | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86-3 | Permit of the comprehensive design system by one complex | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86-4 | Permit of the comprehensive design system through joint building design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86-2-1 | Authorization of extension in an area that has been certified as a complex or cooperative design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 2-2 of 86 | Accreditation of relaxation of extension in an area that has been certified as a complex or cooperative design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86 2-3 | Permission for extension in a complex or an area that has been certified as a joint design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86 5-2 | Revocation of the certification of a housing complex or cooperative design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 86 5-3 | Cancellation of permission for a housing complex or coordination design | 45 | － | － | ||
| 6-2 of 86 | Certification in the city planning area for housing facilities in a complex | 45 | － | － | ||
| 8-1 of 86 | Approval of overall plan for the extension of existing ineligible buildings | 70 | － | － | ||
| 8-3 of 86 | Approval of overall plan change in extension of existing ineligible buildings | 70 | － | － | ||
| 87 2-1 | Overall plan certification for changes in use of existing ineligible buildings | 70 | － | － | ||
| 87 2-2 | Approval of overall plan change in use of existing ineligible buildings | 70 | － | － | ||
| Building Standard Law Enforcement Order | 115-2-1(4) | Certification of buildings that do not require installation of fire walls | 45 | － | － | |
| 131 2-2 | Certification of roads deemed to be front roads | 45 | － | － | ||
| 131 2-3 | Exception authorization of diagonal line restriction when there is designation of wall line, etc. | 70 | － | － | ||
| Yokohama City Building Standards Ordinance | 3-2-5 | Permission pertaining to relaxation of building restrictions in disaster danger areas | 28 | － | － | |
| 4-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on the form of the site | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-2-3 | Permission to relax restrictions on access to large-scale buildings | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-3-5 | Permission for parking facilities on the site in the restricted zone | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-3-6 | Permit to ease the structure of parking facilities | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-5-4(2) | Permission to relax restrictions on floor area ratio of residential basements | 28 | － | － | ||
| 5-5 | Permission to relax restrictions on access to schools, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 6-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on exits and evacuation passages outside | 28 | － | － | ||
| 24-3 | Permission to relax restrictions on access to department stores, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 25-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on open spaces in front of department stores, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 27-6 | Permission to relax restrictions on exits and corridors of department stores, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 28-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on exits of department stores, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 29-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on access to entertainment venues, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 42 | Permission for relaxation of restrictions on entertainment venues, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 46 | Permission to relax restrictions on the height of chimneys in public baths | 28 | － | － | ||
| 48-2 | Permission to relax restrictions on buildings for use in car garages, etc. | 28 | － | － | ||
| 52-4 | Permission to relax restrictions on access roads such as bowling alleys | 28 | － | － | ||
| 53-2 | Permit to ease restrictions on access to warehouses | 28 | － | － | ||
| The regulations about limit of building in area of Yokohama-shi city planning | 1-(1) of 14 | Permission pertaining to the exemption of buildings necessary for the public interest in the area of the city planning | 60 | － | － | |
| 14-1(2) | Permission pertaining to the exemption of restrictions on buildings in the city planning area | 60 | － | － | ||
| Yokohama City Special Industrial Area Building Ordinance | 3-1 | Permission pertaining to the exemption of restrictions in special industrial areas | 60 | － | － | |
| Ordinance on restrictions on construction and development of basement buildings on slopes in Yokohama City | 3-2 | Special permission pertaining to restrictions on the number of floors of basement buildings | 28 | － | － | |
| Yokohama city center function guidance district building regulations | 3-2(1) | Special permission for buildings in the city center function guidance area | 60 | － | － | |
| 3-2(2) | Special permission for buildings in the city center function guidance area | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-1(1) | Permission pertaining to the exemption of restrictions in urban center function guidance areas | 28 | － | － | ||
| 4-1(2) | Permission pertaining to the exemption of restrictions in urban center function guidance areas | 60 | － | － | ||
| Yokohama City Parking Ordinance | 10-1 | Special approval of attaching a remote parking facility depending on the structure of the building or the location, scale, etc. | 10 | － | － | |
| 10-2 | Special approval of the installation of remote parking facilities to be established as a group for two or more buildings | 10 | － | － | ||
| 10-3 | Special approval of installation of remote parking facilities when a person who attaches a parking facility constructs a city planning parking lot | 10 | － | － | ||
| 10-4 | Approval of location, scale and structure of remote parking facilities | 10 | － | － | ||
| 11-3 | Special approval of parking facilities with special forms or parking facilities using special equipment | 10 | － | － | ||
| Yokohama-shi parking lot regulations enforcement regulations | 2-(4) | Approval of buildings that are deemed not to cause parking demand | 10 | － | － | |
| 3-2 | Special approval of the limit specified by the rules of Ordinance 10-3 | 10 | － | － | ||
| 5-3 | Approval of the location of entrances and exits of parking facilities | 10 | － | － | ||
| Act on Promotion of Smooth Movement of Elderly and Disabled Persons | 17-1 | Authorization of plans for specific buildings | 50※ | － | － | |
| 18-1 | Change authorization of plan of specific building | 50※ | － | － | ||
| Town Development Ordinance of Yokohama City Welfare | 24 | Permission pertaining to the exemption of building restrictions | 28 | － | － | |
| Residential Land Examination Division | Residential Land Development Regulation Law | 8-1 | Permission for construction related to residential land development (Urbanization area) | 50 | － | － |
| City Planning Act | 29-1、2 | Permission for development activities (Urbanization area) | 50 | － | － | |
| 37-(1) | Building restriction cancellation (Urbanization area) | 16 | － | － | ||
| Ordinances on Coordination of Yokohama City Development Project | 17-1 | Consent of planning for development projects (development projects other than construction of large-scale apartment houses in urbanized areas) | 30 | － | － | |
| Building Standard Law | 42-1(5) | Designation of road position (Urbanization area (excluding: respect for the current situation)) | 75 | － | － | |
| 88-1 | Confirmation of work (retaining wall) (urbanization area) | 7 | － | － | ||
| Coordination Area Division | Residential Land Development Regulation Law | 8-1 | Permission for construction related to residential land development (Urbanization adjustment area) | 50 | － | － |
| City Planning Act | 29-1、2 | Permission for development activities (Urbanization adjustment area) | 50 | － | － | |
| 37-(1) | Building restriction cancellation (Urbanization adjustment area) | 16 | － | － | ||
| 43-1 | Building permit | 28 | － | － | ||
| Ordinances on Coordination of Yokohama City Development Project | 17-1 | Consent to the plan of the development project (development project other than the construction of large-scale apartment houses in the urbanization control area) | 30 | － | － | |
| Building Standard Law | 42-1(5) | Designation of road position (Urbanization adjustment area (excluding: respect for the current situation)) | 75 | － | － | |
| 88-1 | Confirmation of work (retaining wall) (urbanization adjustment area) | 7 | － | － | ||
※When submitting a request for examination of building confirmation in conjunction with the certification or change certification application, please add the period pertaining to the application for confirmation (see the Building Standards Law 6-1 of the Building Guidance Division).
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