Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs Dr. Majid bin Abdullah Al-Qasabi approved updating and developing (12) technical requirements of the Ministry's Technical Affairs Agency, including updates to the requirements for private schools, restaurants and kitchens, service centers (gas stations), sports buildings, transportation and vehicle services centers, wedding palaces and rest houses, advertising billboards, warehouses, workshops and stores, in addition to the requirements for wireless communication towers and antennas. Sports, transportation and vehicle service centers, wedding palaces and rest houses, advertising and advertising boards, warehouses, workshops and stores, in addition to the requirements for wireless communication towers and antennas, recreational buildings, professional buildings, health and social services buildings. (Real Estate)
Updating 103 regulations and requirements
The Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs for Technical Affairs, Dr. Khaled bin Mohammed Al-Jamaz, explained that these updates come within a package of updates that included 103 regulations, requirements, guides, models, standards and applications for all activities of various kinds, and the work of updating these requirements involved working teams with the participation of 32 government and private agencies and 17 secretariats.
Dr. Al-Jamaz said that the aim is to improve the experience of beneficiaries, increase investment opportunities, control urban development, and put the requirements of all relevant authorities in one form issued by the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs.
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Increase the building area in private schools
He pointed out that the modernization of technical requirements for activities contributes to the governance of roles and responsibilities, and supports the capabilities of investors to know the feasibility of investing in any of the municipal activities before starting; which reflects in attracting investments for important development activities.
The technical requirements for private school activities included increasing the number of floors of the buildings used in them to three floors instead of the previous two, specifying a square meter for each student, in addition to canceling the distance requirement between schools. The technical requirements for restaurants and kitchens also included eliminating the requirement for an entrance for singles and an entrance for families, eliminating the requirement for the length of the facade, and not specifying private spaces, in addition to allowing kitchens on upper floors on the condition that surveillance cameras linked to monitors are placed.
500 square meters of gas stations
The updates to the requirements for service centers (gas stations) included: Class "A" stations outside cities, and allowing Class "B" stations inside cities, starting with stations with two pumps with an area of 500 square meters without any additional services, and if the investor wishes to add additional services such as (light maintenance, oil change, coffee shop and others); he must provide the specific areas required by the updated requirements, as well as the updated requirements. The percentage of construction has been increased to 40% of the area allocated to stations outside cities and 30% inside cities, which was previously limited to 10%; while the updates to the requirements for sports buildings include the elimination of the distance requirement between sports centers, and not specifying a certain area; rather, the decision is left to the absorptive capacity of the place and the capabilities of investors.
New requirements for health buildings
While the requirements for health buildings included an area of 180 square meters for each bed in hospitals, not less than 400 square meters for medical complexes, and two and a half parking spaces per patient. Updates to the requirements for transportation centers and vehicle services included that they should be located on a street with a width of at least 20 meters, a minimum of 200 square meters per truck, 24 square meters per parking space in front of rental offices, and 15 square meters per parking space inside parking centers.
Updating specifications for warehouses and warehouses
The updates to the requirements for warehouses and warehouses included that their area should not be less than 300 square meters, unlike the previous ones that were not less than 2000 square meters, and their height should not be less than eight meters without specifying the upper limit; while the updated requirements allow warehouses to operate within provided that their area does not exceed 150 square meters; while the requirements for billboards and advertising included developments to the technical and spatial requirements, which were previously limited to spatial, specifying 29 types of billboards, as well as specifying the dimensions of the billboards and safe distances.
Removal of the distance requirement between wedding palaces
The technical requirements for wedding palaces and rest houses included eliminating the requirement for a specific distance between wedding palaces (event halls), and defining categories for wedding palaces, including category "A" with 10 square meters per person, category "B" with 8 square meters per person, and category "C" with 8 square meters The updates also included a number of requirements for entertainment activities by including technical requirements, in addition to spatial requirements, and that they be on commercial streets, and that cinemas be on a commercial street.
<p class="p2All these requirements did not neglect to take into account the urban planning of the cities and centers of the Kingdom, as they were present in all the updated requirements, and took this into consideration.
