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This earthquake is sometimes called "innerarea disaster". The most damaged area overlaps with the inner city area, where residential lots are small and narrow, and access to the street from many lots is inadequate. The "Special Act for Disaster Area" relaxed regulations to promote reconstruction in this area, and increased some subsidies for participating in planning projects, for example by using the District Planning process described in the chapter on district planning. These processes need residents' participation and consensus building, and can take time to develop. One important way to support individual reconstruction is by relaxing the requirements for road access.
6. Deregulation
Deregulation of restrictions about site size and road access:
A building site must have frontage on a road of more than 2m, under Section 42 of the Building Standards Law. Many damaged inner area city sites which did not meet this standard, but were existing non-complying sites. In these cases, it is fundamentally necessary to secure 2m of road frontage by undertaking a joint housing project with an adjacent site with frontage. Sometimes, the adjacent site with adequate frontage has little incentive for participating in the joint housing project. there are not so many cases as nonabutontheroad site adjoin each other. After all, it was supposed to be impossible of reconstruction of the most buildings in the afflicted area, without deregulation of restrictions about road under the Building Standards Act.
Therefore, Kobe City decided to relax the road frontage requirement 2 months after the earthquake, by "application of a proviso Article 43 Act about Rebuilding of Detached House for Reconstruction from the Earthquake" and "Treatment in rebuilding the existing noncomplying building not fulfilling the road frontage requirements under the Hyogo
+ Prefecture Building Standards Act." It is applied as follows:
(1)When rebuilding damage from the Great HanshinAwaji Earthquake.
+ The applicable standards are:
(2)Construction work should be started in 3 years after the earthquake.
(3)Detached house of one or two stories.
(4)The previous inhabitant should continue to live there.
(1)There should be at least two ways for people to access the site. Each should be at least 0.6, wide, and their total width should total 2m or more.
(2)The width of private passage should be 1.2m or over. An emergency exit over adjacent lots to the road should be possible. The total width of the private passage and the evacuation route should be about 2m and over. Securing the evacuation route over adjacent property needs the written consent of the owner.
(3)If the width of a private passage is 1.2m and over, and the width of the adjacent private passage, on the adjacent lot is 1.2m and over, and there is no wall or obstruction etween the two private passages and the both can be used profitably. Securing each passage in the two sites requires a written consent of both owners.
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