The space requirement of the building shall include, but is not limited to:

 Circulation areas - the path that people take through a space. It includes the
route that they take and the various elements that they encounter along the way,
such as doors, stairs, and elevators. The goal of circulation is to help people move
through a space safely and efficiently.
- Lobby - The lobby space type includes foyers, entries to halls, and security
screening areas at or near the entrance to a building or demarcated space, and are
meant to welcome and direct tenants and visitors, control access, and provide exit
ways from buildings. This space type is often designed with both secure and non-
secure areas. The lobby space type does not include elevator lobbies, however,
they may be adjacent or connected physically or aesthetically. Building lobbies
often serve as the "public face" of building interiors and are becoming more
interactive spaces that provide an enhanced user experience.
- Hallway - A hallway is typically a narrow passageway that is enclosed within
walls and often has doors leading to various rooms.
- Stairway/s - Staircase, series, or flight, of steps between two floors. Traditionally,
staircase is a term for stairs accompanied by walls, but contemporary usage
includes the stairs alone.
- Lift/ Elevator - They move vertically and take you up and down a building - a
vertical compartment that transports you to one or multiple floors.
Lifts and elevator are synonyms. The only difference is that elevator is an
American term, and lift is a British term for the same type of machinery. Both are
used interchangeably and refer to the device that carries people and goods to
different building levels.
 Departmental Offices
- City Accounting and Internal Auditing Office - Responsible for the
accounting & internal audit services as well as the preparation of Financial
Statements in accordance with and in compliance with the City Public Sector
Accounting Standards (CPSAS)
- City Treasury Office w/ Vault - The City Treasurer’s Office provides advisory
or technical and staff services to the Mayor and other local officials regarding the
disposition of funds, public finance and acquisition, authorization and
accountability of government property.
- Cashier - An executive who has charge of money, especially one who
superintends monetary transactions, as in a bank.
- Registry of Deeds Office - A public repository of records of instruments
affecting registered or unregistered lands and chattel mortgages in the province
or city wherein such office is situated.
- Human Resources Office - Human resources (HR) is the division of a business
that is charged with finding, recruiting, screening, and training job applicants. It
also administers employee benefit programs.
- City Administrative Office - Serves as the principal advisor to the City Mayor,
providing sound recommendations and developing plans and strategies for the
effective and efficient management and administration of City Government
operations. The clearinghouse of all financial transactions of the city
 government, ensuring compliance to all relevant budget, accounting, and audit
rules, regulations, and guidelines. It warrants that policies and programs result in
good governance, transparency, and better public service for its constituents.
- City Budget Office - Local government office which provides appropriate and
responsive technical services on budgetary matters to various departments or
offices of a City.
- City Engineering Office - The office is primarily created to provide engineering
services to the local government unit concerned, including investigation and
survey, engineering designs, feasibility studies, and project management.
- City Architectural Office - Addresses the design of the City’s institutional,
housing, and urban projects, based on sound and acceptable architectural
principles. The Department produces designs for vertical government projects
such as schools, offices, police outposts, housing projects, and other institutional
structures.
- City Agricultural Office - It envisions the agriculture sector to be dynamic and
have cohesive communities, self- reliant and empowered farmer entrepreneurs
committed to sustainable growth and development in alleviating the plight of
marginal farmers, fisherfolks and rural-based entities of the city. It seeks to
transform them into socially and economically progressive members of society
by setting up a favorable scenario/s towards sustainable agricultural development
within the context of a balanced ecology.
- City Assessor's Office - Responsible for carrying out real property tax-related
functions such locating all taxable real properties (land, buildings and other
structures, and machinery) in the City; identifying and updating ownership.
Establishing taxable values based on actual use; and applying legal exemptions
for exempt properties.
- City Building Official's Office - A local government office which implements
regulations and requirements for the construction, alteration, repair, conversion,
use, occupancy, and demolition of buildings
- City Civil Registrar Office - Primary function is to accept, file, keep and
preserve all registrable documents and judicial decrees affecting the civil status
of a person.
- City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office - A department that
serves as secretariat and executive arm of Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and
Management Council (MDRRMC) that shall be responsible for setting the
direction, development, implementation, and coordination of disaster risk
management programs.
- City Health Office - Responsible in making health services accessible,
available, acceptable and affordable to all its constituents. It is a government
mandate aiming to ensure that every citizen shall receive affordable and quality
health benefits.
- City Veterinary Services Office - In charge the development of the animal
industry and all projects and services relative to the provision of veterinary
services to the city, such as to regulate the keeping of domestic animals; regulate
and inspect poultry, milk and dairy products for public consumption; enforces all
 laws and regulations for the prevention of cruelty to animals; and take the
necessary measures to eradicate, prevent or cure all forms of animal diseases.
- City Legal Office - Formulates measures for the consideration of the local
legislature and provide legal assistance and support to the Local Chief Executive
in carrying out the delivery of basic services to the public.
- City Planning and Development Office - prepares plans for the social,
economic, environment, physical, and institutional development of the City.
CPDD is involved in the preparation of special plans for various concerned city
departments and other government agencies through continuing studies, research,
and sectoral consultations.
- City Social Welfare and Development Office - Frontline service provider that
provides excellent quality interventions and opportunities to the disadvantaged
sectors for social protection and development through the delivery of enhanced
basic social services committed to empowering the wee-being of the
marginalized sectors, instill community participation and gender fair society.
- City Tourism Office - Aims to advance the promotion of historical, cultural and
natural tourism attractions in the city. It also aims to efficiently oversee tourism
programs, come up with striking promotional and marketing materials to draw
tourism investments and to put up additional tourism establishments and
facilities that will provide the City Government with additional revenues.
- Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs - Cares for the needs and concerns of
people aged 60 years and above. This office was conceived and developed to put
in place the provisions of laws pertaining to the protection of the innate rights of
the Elderly.
- Office of the Local Housing Board – The sole clearing house for eviction and
demolition activities concerning informal settlers in danger areas, public places
and government projects.
 Executive Offices
- Office of the City Mayor - Enforces all laws and ordinances relative to the
governance of the city and implements all approved policies, programs, projects,
services, and activities of the city; initiates and maximizes the generation of
sources and applies the same to the implementation of development plans,
programs, objectives; and ensures the delivery of basic services and the provision
of adequate facilities for the city.
- Office of the City Vice Mayor - Legislative body of the City that approves
ordinances and passes resolutions necessary for an efficient and effective City
Government and that ensures the delivery of basic services and facilities. It also
exercises the powers and performs the duties and functions of the City Mayor in
case of temporary vacancy and such other powers and performs such other duties
and functions as may be prescribed by law or ordinance.
- Office of the City Secretary - Provides administrative, secretarial, legislative,
and technical support services to the city in the performance of its functions as
the legislative, deliberative, and policy-making body of the City Government.
- Office of the City Councilor - Generally act as the legislative branch of the city
government, as well as its policy-making body. The council also looks to the
 city's goals, major projects and infrastructure improvements ranging from
community growth to land use to finances and strategic planning.
- Conference Room/s - Often referred to as a conference venue or meeting space,
is a designated area within an office or a separate facility explicitly designed to
host formal meetings, presentations, and discussions.
 Recreational Areas
- Municipal Library - A library that is accessible by the general public and is
generally funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians
and library paraprofessionals, who are also civil servants.
- Cafeteria – A restaurant in which the customers serve themselves or are served at
a counter and take the food to tables to eat.
- Garden - A piece of land next to and belonging to a house or building,
where flowers and other plants are grown, and often containing an area of grass.
- Comfort Rooms - a room with a toilet or toilets
- Waste Management/ Disposal Area - Designated place or region where various
materials, substances, or objects are discarded or eliminated.
- Printing Shops - Provides duplicating services using photocopy, blueprint, and
off-set printing equipment, including collating of booklets and a letter-shop.
- Drop Off Areas - A drop-off point is a place where a person or thing can be left,
received, accommodated, etc.
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%20the%20Local%20Government%20Code%2C%20the,prevent%20or%20cure
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