The first one is the gross floor area, which is the total floor area measured around the external side of the external walls. The gross internal area is the area that goes from the inner side of the external walls. Last is the net internal area, and this is what gets used most of the time.
The net internal area is the gross internal area and then you subtract the things like stairs, basements, garages, and whatever else in the building that is deemed unlivable. When it comes to taller buildings in cities and even hotels, the net internal area gets even more complicated.
You can have a lot that is a certain size, but the building can be twenty stories high or higher. This makes calculating the floor area ratio even trickier than your normal suburban house. The Floor Area Ratio is the total amount of usable floor area that a building may have. This can either be the space they have available currently or the amount they are permitted to by the developers. You find the FAR by dividing the net internal area by the total lot area. For example, if you have a 3, square-foot lot and a 1, square-foot building that is all determined livable, then the Floor Area Ratio would be.
If that same building had square feet of stairs, garages, and other factors that get subtracted out, making it 1, square-feet, the Floor Area Ratio would be. In all the examples so far, the lot area is bigger than the floor area because suburban houses typically have lots that are larger than the building that is on that lot. This is especially true in rural areas where the size of the lot is significantly larger than the building. But what about larger cities? A ten-story building has ten times the square footage of a single-story building with the same area of each story.
If, on the other hand, the downtown section is served by a subway with a capacity of 40, persons a lane per hour, large-bulk buildings will be less likely to cause congestion. In other words, greater density — and hence greater bulk and higher buildings — is feasible with greater transit capacity.
A still further factor that affects desirable bulk — and hence the desirable floor area ratio — is the physical relation of buildings to each other and to the street.
It will be recalled that the height districts in the original New York city zoning ordinance were based on street widths. In a "one and one-half times district," for instance, buildings could not be erected to a height "in excess of one and one-half times the width of the street. The purpose was to prevent tall buildings from blocking light and air from streets and from other buildings.
The mapping of this highest bulk district is confined to locations where property values and existing building bulks demand a high floor area ratio figure. The floor area ratios of some of the extremely high-bulk buildings erected in New York city are: Tishman Building — The Port of New York Authority building has a floor area ratio of To determine suitable floor area ratios for business districts in Washington, D. Lewis made a survey of existing bulk patterns. Thirty-eight blocks in typical commercial zoning districts were selected at random.
It was discovered that in no case did the developed floor area ratio even approach that permitted under the ordinance. A portion of the findings — those that deal with the downtown district — are reproduced in the table below. This realistic appraisal of development trends, plus the "need for tailoring the bulk of traffic generating facilities to traffic capacity in the downtown area," plus federal interest in limiting height of all roof structures to feet in order to assure the dominance of the Capitol and the Washington Monument, led to the conclusion that new zoning controls should aim at an average building density of not more than FAR 4.
However, it was recognized that since many of the remaining parcels were too small for full bulk development or would have economic uses in low-bulk structures, the individual owner should, on occasion, be permitted to build higher than average bulk buildings.
Therefore, it was concluded that FAR 7. After examining the parking and traffic generating potential of industrial and other types of business areas in the District, the following ratios were proposed as "reasonable in relation to their effect on adjoining areas and to the high density district at the center of the city":.
Major outlying centers adjacent to the central business district — FAR 4. Major outlying centers away from the central business district — FAR 3. If under a given floor area ratio ground floors and streets gain in light and air when a building is high and narrow rather than low and broad, can still greater gains be made by extending the process? That gains can be made is the theory behind the premiums offered under the Chicago and the proposed Philadelphia zoning ordinances.
If open area additional to that resulting from a basic floor area ratio is provided, height may be greater than that permitted under the basic ratio.
In other words, increased open space at the ground level or on the lower floors of a building compensates for and justifies an increase in total floor area. Under both the Chicago ordinance and the Philadelphia proposal, premiums are given for arcades, setbacks, and plazas. Philadelphia also gives a premium for open-air interior courts; Chicago gives more weight than Philadelphia does to covered arcades. In Philadelphia, these premiums are granted in several types of districts; in Chicago, they apply only to the commercial zones of highest building density or bulk.
However, Chicago grants another premium if the parcel adjoins or is across the street from "a public open space which is at least five acres in area and of a depth perpendicular to such front or side lot line of not less than feet. The details of premiums granted in the Chicago ordinance as they apply to central business districts are reproduced in Table 1.
Table 1. Floor area ratio provisions, central business districts, Chicago zoning ordinance A summary of the premiums that would be granted under the Philadelphia proposal is shown in Table 2, which is reproduced from a booklet prepared by the Citizens Council on City Planning Sansom Street, Philadelphia 3.
Details of the increased floor area permitted in the C4 Commercial District for additional open area, as displayed in the ordinance proposal, constitute Figure 3. Other comparisons of the two sets of provisions are made in an article by Richard A. As a bulk determinant, the floor area ratio is probably less useful in industrial areas than in any other type of use district. Although modern plants have many characteristics in common, these characteristics are not necessarily uniform within a zone.
This is so because industrial zones are classified mainly on the basis of the "nuisance" characteristics of manufacturing processes. To illustrate: a "light" industrial zone requires nonnuisance industries and ample distance between plants and accessory uses on the one hand and surrounding residential areas on the other. It also has, desirably, a low structural density or per cent of the total land covered by structures.
These characteristics can be achieved by other bulk controls — chiefly yards and per cent of lot coverage. Because most plants built today are no more than one story high, maximum height limits do not restrict plant design in the same way as they restrict office building design. Consequently, there is little incentive to go higher than what is permitted by the ordinance. As a control of employment density persons per acre in industrial zones, the floor area ratio is a fairly ineffective device.
Unlike office buildings and stores, the ratio of persons to a unit of floor area is highly variable within a zone. It was found during the course of the Chicago rezoning studies, for instance, that a plant with a floor area of 10, square feet located on a lot of , square feet might employ as few as three or as many as workers. Among the so-called heavy industries, differences in floor space per employee may be considerable.
For instance, an aluminum sheet mill may have more than 2, square feet of floor area per employee, while an aircraft manufacturing plant may have less than square feet of floor area per employee. See Space for Industry by Dorothy A. In recommending an industrial zone location, the amount and kind of traffic generated are nearly as important as nuisance characteristics. Here the floor area ratio is virtually useless as a control in preventing congestion.
According to Jack C. Smith in a paper, "Progress in Performance Standards for Zoning" Planning , American Society of Planning Officials , bulk controls and other methods were considered in the Chicago pre-zoning studies and rejected for these reasons:. Some types of industrial operations typically employ as many as workers an acre even in new buildings of comparatively low bulk.
When such concentrations occur in areas where street and transit capacities are comparatively low, serious problems inevitably result. Ironically, such high densities usually occur in the industries that are otherwise good neighbors to residential zones.
Smith goes on to say that the only effective control appears to be a direct limitation on the density of employment the number of workers an acre because such a control will effectively spread out the focus of traffic generation.
Apparently the only purpose of a floor area ratio in industrial zones is to supplement other types of bulk controls. Even in this respect its usefulness seems limited. Because plant managers on the whole do not want buildings that are more than one story high, the advantages of flexibility so attractive in commercial zones do not pertain.
If, for reasons of compatibility with surrounding uses, it were thought desirable to establish a constant ratio between gross floor area and gross land area, a floor area ratio control might be useful in achieving this result — especially if there are accessory buildings.
Furthermore, many industrial operations in typical "heavy industrial districts" do not have floor areas as such. For instance, grain elevators, petroleum refineries, and gravity-flow processes. A floor area ratio is a meaningless type of bulk control over such operations. However, in industrial zones that are close to the central business district, floor area ratio controls may have the same applications and advantages as in the downtown section proper.
The proposed comprehensive revision of the Philadelphia zoning ordinance would establish a new limited industrial district to accommodate loft industrial establishments in central locations. According to the summary of the proposed ordinance, this district, unlike other limited industrial districts, "permits a full range of commercial uses, and hence is particularly appropriate for center city. Keeping in mind the purposes of bulk controls, what additional advantages has floor area ratio to offer in residential zones?
To approach an answer to this question low-density and high-density uses will be considered separately. In one- and two-family zones, the use of the floor area ratio seems to be rather limited. Without going into the well established justifications for yard requirements, we can see that along with maximum height limits they establish a volume control.
If to these dimensions is added maximum lot coverage, we get a result that has the same effect as a floor area ratio in that, when combined, they establish a constant ratio between volume of buildings and area of land. See diagram. In addition, they insure a minimum separation between buildings, which does not necessarily follow from the floor area ratio control alone. In most cases, enclosed off-street parking facilities are exempt from "gross floor area.
However, other accessory buildings are also covered by this definition. Hence, by using the floor area ratio device, the bulk of all principal and accessory buildings except garages and carports is regulated. In summary, the effect of the floor area ratio in low-density residential areas is mainly to refine bulk controls. In this respect, its use is similar to that in industrial zones.
When we get to the high-density residential areas, on the other hand, we approach the situation that prevails in high-density commercial zones, where land is expensive, height of buildings is relatively unimportant, and where, in any event, height can be raised if space is gained at ground and lower floor levels. In residential zones, however, the difference in type of occupancy brings other factors to the front.
Being dwelling uses, apartment houses and group housing both must have access to light, sun, and air, must be separated from other uses so that noise does not disturb unduly, and must have a minimum amount of usable outdoor space.
In short, they must have the amenities that go along with modern urban living. But these necessities are not guaranteed by the floor area ratio, and consequently other controls are employed in order to secure them. Most common of these are yard provisions, which result in the bulk envelope that permits only limited variation in building design.
Furthermore, it can be demonstrated that unless the minimums set for yards are sufficiently wide or deep, they do not in fact provide the amenities mentioned above. To attain them, and at the same time to preserve the flexibility inherent in a floor area ratio, other devices have also been developed.
They are described only briefly here, since in ordinance form the regulations sometimes are quite complex. All derive from ideas developed in Great Britain and are described in various publications of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government or its predecessor, the Ministry of Town and Country Planning.
Angle of Light Obstruction. The purpose of the angle of light obstruction is to insure access of light and air into streets and to front windows of buildings. Such provisions create an imaginary plane, rising diagonally from an angle at the center line of the street and leaning against the building, which is not permitted to cut into this plane. This device appears in the proposals for New York city and the District of Columbia, in the Denver zoning ordinance, and others.
Area of Light Access. This is an unobstructed area outside of a legally required window, within an arc extending 70 degrees on each side of a line perpendicular to the building wall at the center line of the window.
The radius is usually a minimum of 15 feet in residential zones, though it may be as long as 60 feet in some. A specified portion of the space within this wedge remains free of buildings and other obstructions. Details vary among the several ordinances that employ this device. Usable Open Space. Multifamily buildings may receive adequate light by means of the two devices just described and still lack outdoor living space.
To be usable, outdoor areas of this type must be easily accessible to occupants, adequate in size and distribution i. The same report defines "usable open space" to include only that part of the ground area of a residential zoning lot:.
Though usable open space is defined as a part of a ground area, roof spaces and balconies may be substituted, provided they meet ordinance requirements of size, freedom from obstructions, accessibility, and safety. So far, we have been discussing the floor area ratio as a control of building bulk. Occasionally it has also been used as a density control. Given the number of families per acre and the average size of apartments in square feet, a floor area ratio can be derived.
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