Journal of A Sustainable Global South, p-ISSN: 2579-6062 Abstract This study aims to determine the level of community compliance in South Denpasar and differences in people's preferences in complying with Mayor Regulation No. 25/2010. The research method used in this research is descriptive quantitative method with a survey approach. The number of respondents in the study were 100 people who were selected using multy stage sampling. The analysis technique used is the Frequency Distribution Analysis Technique (New Rank) and the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). While the validity test was carried out by using the Product Moment Correlation Technique and the reliability test with Cronbach's Alpha. Public preferences in complying with Mayor Regulation No. 25/2010 vary widely, because each community group has different desires with their respective priority values for research aspects, as well as the level of compliance obtained from field findings. Communities with higher income have a higher level of compliance than others, but do not have a good scale of attitude towards compliance with applicable regulations, and vice versa. Index Terms— preference, compliance, regulation. I. INTRODUCTION A house as a private area is an area that is owned and controlled by the owner (community) and is designed and built with the preference of the community as the decision holder for the rights to their own land. So that the needs, functions, form and appearance will differ from one another[1]. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia is a constitutional state, where everything and everything related therein must be subject to and obey the applicable law. As regulated by the Mayor's Regulation Number 25 of 2010, which discusses the principles of spatial planning and orientation, the principles of building layout, and the principles of decorative patterns that affect the shape and appearance of public houses in Denpasar City. Judging from the description, it is very necessary to take this case into research material to prove the individual preferences of the community in determining the shape and appearance of the building in obeying Perwali No. 25 of 2010. In this study, researchers tried to take approaches that pay attention to interactions involving human decisions themselves, the desires of humans themselves and the level of compliance by exploring community preference factors determining the shape and appearance of residential buildings in complying with Mayor Regulation Number 25. The year 2010. II. METHOD The research method used is descriptive quantitative. This research method is a method that aims to identify a particular symptom, or to get new ideas from that symptom in order to formulate a problem in detail. This research Magister Architecture Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University Denpasar, Bali wigunantara@gmail.com Architecture Department Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University Denpasar, Bali Architecture Department Faculty of Engineering, Udayana University Denpasar, Bali Kadek Wigunantara Eka Putra 1 , Antonius Karel Muktiwibowo 2 , I Gusti Ngurah Anom Rajendra 3 Community Preferences Determine Shape and Appearance of Residential Buildings in Compliance with Perwali No 25 Year 2010 in Denpasar Selatan