area not designated as a zoning district
Legal/administrative term used in Japanese city planning. Refers to an area where urbanization control areas and urbanization promotion areas have not been designated under the City Planning Act.
Because this area is designated as a non-zoning district, there are restrictions on development.
線引き refers to the act of drawing a line or demarcation; in city planning, it refers to the designation of zoning boundaries. 非線引き区域 is the area where such demarcation has not been made.
市街化区域 is an urbanization promotion area, a type of zoning district. 非線引き区域 is the opposite: an area without such zoning designation.
市街化調整区域 is an urbanization control area, another zoning type. 非線引き区域 lacks both promotion and control area designations.
Standard kanji spelling for this legal/administrative term.
Variant spelling with 引 instead of 引き; both are used in official contexts.
Compound of 非 (non-), 線引き (drawing a line, demarcation), and 区域 (area, zone). The term is a direct description of an area where zoning lines have not been drawn.