Main Floor Area And Ancillary Floor Area

Gross floor area gfa in real estate is the total floor area inside the building envelope including the external walls and excluding the roof.

Main floor area and ancillary floor area.

Definitions of gfa including which areas are to be counted towards it and which areas aren t vary around the world. Adding to this confusion is the practice among some developers to use gross leasable area gla and gfa interchangeably or to use. Note that the floor area also includes garage built. 28 the board voted 2 2 in favor of city building inspector damlier molina s interpretation that hotel room balconies facing baltimore avenue should be included in the gross floor area.

Including the yard up to the boundaries of the lot. An ancillary area of a building is an area that supports the function s of the primary areas that is it is not part of the primary purpose of the building but is required in order that the primary purpose can function. The thickness of the exterior wall counts as part of the floor area. Floor area is the sum of the gross areas of the several floors of a building or buildings measured from the exterior faces of exterior walls or from the center lines of walls separating two buildings.

New york city zoning resolution. To put it simply a floor area is the size of the indoors area inside the building walls and the lot area is the whole size of the lot i e. Scope nfa is any sub areas of the building that is derived from an extraction of one or more of the following areas form the gross floor area. During a meeting sept.

Ancillary area designing buildings wiki share your construction industry knowledge. The floor area ratio is the relationship between the total amount of usable floor area that a building has or has been permitted to have and the total area of the lot on which the building stands. The actual ball has been on display at eye level on the main floor the most trafficked area of the store for more than a month. As calculated the interpretation adds approximately 2 500 square feet of floor area to the equation related to floor to area ratio.

In a high rise building counting that six eight or 12 inch. The floor of a building at or nearest ground level. The floor area of a building is the sum of the grass area of each floor of the building excluding mechanical space cellar space floor space in open balconies elevators or stair bulkheads and in most zoning districts floor space used for accessory parking that is located less than 23 feet above curb level.