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Landscape planning and urban landscape consultation district in Yamate-District

Last Updated February 29, 2024


 Yamate-District has established a "landscape plan" based on the Landscape Act (outside site) and a "cityscape consultation district" based on the Yokohama City Ordinance on the Creation of Attractive Urban Landscapes (hereinafter referred to as the "landscape ordinance").
 When we perform predetermined act in target area, "report of scenery plan" based on scenery law and "city scenery consultation" based on scenery regulations are necessary beforehand.

Request about procedure of scenery plan, cityscape discussion district

1 Target area


Target area

2 Landscape plan

2-1 Body and Plan

About the maximum height of buildings

The maximum height of the building shall be less than the numerical value shown in Plan 4-3, but please note that the calculation method of the building height differs for each area.


Method for calculating the height of buildings

2-2 Acts subject to notification

  1. New construction, extension, renovation, relocation of buildings (excluding extensions and renovations without change in appearance)
  2. Repairs, remodeling, and color changes that will change the appearance of buildings
  3. New construction, extension, renovation, relocation of structures (* 1) (excluding renovations without a change in appearance)
  4. Repairs, remodeling, and color changes that will change the appearance of the work (* 1)
  5. Cutting wood and bamboo with a height of 5m or a height of 1.2m and a height of more than 1.5m

※1 Workpieces subject to notification in the Yamate-District landscape plan

2-3 Procedures

  • Please submit a report at least 31 days before the start of construction. (Construction cannot be started unless 30 days have passed since the date of notification.)
  • Please submit "registration form of act in area of scenery plan" and two copies (primary, secondary) attached book.
  • Please submit one copy of the "Landscape Plan Checklist".
  • If you change the content of the notification before the completion of construction, please notify the change at least 31 days before the start of the part related to the change.

Format download

As of March 1, 2021, seal for registration form and notices is no longer required.

Attached books

Acts other than cutting wood and bamboo
  Book name Contents specified in the book Scale
1 Location map Site location and surrounding conditions 1/2500 or more
2 Photographs Site and surrounding conditions
3 Layout drawing Location of activities on the premises 1/100 or more
4 Elevations Two or more sides, coloring (number of the mussel color system is also described) 1/50 or more
5 Photomontage CG looking at the target from the specified point

※We may ask you to submit separately about floor plan and other books that the mayor deems necessary.
 If you are planning a building in contact with the sky moat, please give a two-way cross section view including the sky moat.
※If the mayor recognizes that there is no problem depending on the type and scale of the act, we can omit a part of the book.

Cutting wood and bamboo
  Book name Contents specified in the book Scale

1

Location map Site location and surrounding conditions 1/2500 or more
2 Current status map Current position of planting 1/100 or more
3 Photographs Wood and Bamboo to be cut down and its surroundings
4 Placement plan Position of wood bamboo to be cut down, wood bamboo to be transplanted and bamboo to be planted (color-coded) and type of wood bamboo 1/100 or more

※We may ask you to submit a separate book that describes other matters to be referred to.

3 Urban Landscape Consultation Area

3-1 Text and Figures

3-2 Acts subject to consultation

Urban landscape formation act

  1. New construction, extension, renovation, relocation of buildings (excluding extensions and renovations without change in appearance) ※1
  2. Repairs, remodeling, and color changes that will change the appearance of buildings
  3. New construction, extension, renovation, relocation of structures (steel towers, decorative towers, viewing towers, and the like) fixed on land or buildings (excluding renovations that do not involve changes in appearance)
  4. Repairs, remodeling, and color changes that will change the appearance of structures (same as above) fixed on land or buildings
  5. Display of outdoor advertising materials on rooftop signboards, wall signboards, sleeve signboards or advertising towers and advertising boards or installation of articles that post outdoor advertising materials ※2

Act on Formation of Specific Urban Landscapes

After hearing opinion of Yokohama-shi city beauty measures council, we decide discussion policy. ※3

  1. New construction, extension, renovation, and relocation of buildings with a building area of more than 400 m2 in the Yamatecho area (excluding extensions and renovations that do not involve changes in appearance) ※1
  2. New construction, extension, renovation, relocation of buildings with a building area of more than 1,000 m2 in the cityscape consultation area
  • ※1 Excludes temporary constructions that are temporarily installed for construction site offices or special events, etc., and that the mayor recognizes that there is little impact on the landscape.
  • ※2 Excludes those that are temporarily set up for events, etc., and that the mayor recognizes that there is little impact on the landscape.
  • ※3 There are exclusion provisions for single-family homes.
  • ※4 Major roads shown in Figure 2.

3-3 Procedures

  • Please submit a consultation at an early stage of design. (Construction cannot be started until after the cityscape consultation has been completed.)
  • Please submit "cityscape consultation proposal book" and attached book three copies (for primary, secondary, reading).
  • If you change the content of the consultation before the completion of construction, you will need to discuss the change in advance. (You cannot start construction of the changed part until after the consultation on the change has been completed.)

Format download

Effective March 1, 2021, the application form and the seal to registration form are no longer required.

Attached books

Attached books
 

Book name

Contents specified in the book Scale 
1 Location map Site location and surrounding conditions 1/2500 or more
2 Photographs Site and surrounding conditions
3 Layout drawing Placement and maintenance policies for buildings, structures, approaches, exteriors and green spaces, etc. 1/100 or more
4 Elevations More than two sides, coloring 1/50 or more

※We may ask you to submit separately about floor plan and other books that the mayor deems necessary.
 If you are planning a building in contact with the sky moat, please give a two-way cross section view including the sky moat.
※If the mayor recognizes that there is no problem depending on the type and scale of the act, we can omit a part of the book.

4 Yamate-District Urban Landscape Formation Guidelines

The contents of the landscape plan and the urban landscape consultation district are explained using examples in the Yamate-District Urban Landscape Formation Guidelines.

6 Contact points for notification and consultation

 City of Yokohama, Urban Development Bureau Urban Renewal Division (29th floor of New City Hall)
 〒231-0005 6-50-10, Honcho, Naka-ku, Yokohama-shi
 TEL: 045-671-2673 Email address: tb-tosai@city.yokohama.jp

Online application

From July 1, 2022, you can apply online.

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Inquiries to this page

Urban Renewal Division, Urban Development Bureau Urban Renewal Department

Telephone: 045-671-2673

Telephone: 045-671-2673

Fax: 045-664-3551

Email address: tb-tosai@city.yokohama.jp

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