Andalusian Urban Planning: A Guide to Key Concepts and Regulations
1 – What is the Law Governing Planning in Andalusia?
Law 7/2002 of 17 December on the Urban Planning of Andalusia. This Act covers the planning, organization, direction, and control of land occupation and use, as well as its transformation through development and construction and its environmental consequences. The responsibility for urban activity lies with the Administration of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia and the municipalities. 2 – What are the Instruments of Planning and Development Planning? 1) General Planning: General Plan for Town Planning, Management Plans, and Intermunicipal Sectorized Plans. 2) Development Plans: Partial Management Plans, Special Plans, and Detailed Studies. 3) Catalogs. 3 – Briefly Explain What is a PGOU. The General Urban Plan (General Plan) is defined in Spanish planning legislation as a basic tool for integrated management of the territory of one or more municipalities. It classifies land. The General Urban Plan is a document that contains the applicable municipal urban Spanish regulations, building regulations, and future action plans, among others. Currently (according to the 1997 General Plan), planning powers are attributed exclusively to the Autonomous Communities. 4 – Briefly Explain What is a Partial Plan. What Documents Does it Consist of? A partial plan is a figure of urban planning that aims at detailed planning on building land. It consists of a report, annexes, a stage plan, an economic study, and financial plans. 5 – What Limitations on Population Density and Building Area Exist in Andalusian Planning Legislation? When referring to residential use, the density shall not exceed 75 dwellings per hectare, and the buildable area per square meter of roof is the characteristic use of the land. When the use is tourist, the buildable area does not exceed 0.3 square meters of roof per square meter of land. 6 – What Allocations are Reserved for Parking, Parks, and Gardens According to Legislation? Never less than ten percent of the sector shall be used for parks and gardens. Additionally, there should be between 0.5 and 1 public parking space per 100 square meters of roof for tourist buildable areas, and if twenty percent is allocated for parks and gardens, then there should be from 1 to 1.5 spaces per 100 square meters of roof. 7 – List and Explain the Differences Between Planning Performance Systems. A) Expropriation: The Administration acting in expropriation applies to all property and rights of the execution unit and develops the activity. Reparcelling may apply for registration and allocation of property resulting from the organization in cases where this method is appropriate for the payment of fair compensation for expropriation. b) Partnerships: They bring together all the owners of the land for free and compulsory transfer, pay the costs of development and management of the system, and take full responsibility. The Administration acting in executive may opt for its development between direct or indirect management. c) Compensation: The compensation system is a combination of private action and cooperation, while expropriation is a public action. 8 – Define Urban Land. A) Participate in an existing population center or be incorporated into it and be given a minimum of urban services through urban road access, water supply, sanitation, and electricity supply in low voltage. B) They are already established at least two-thirds of the space suitable for building management as the general planning proposes and be connected to basic urban services outlined in the previous paragraph. The following categories are established: a) Consolidated Urban Land. b) Unconsolidated Urban Land.
9 – Define Urbanized Land. A) Building land ordered, composed of land forming the areas for which management plans provide detailed information directly to legitimize the activity of performance, depending on the needs and expectations of local urban development. b) Land for sectorized development, comprising the most suitable and sufficient land to absorb the expected growth, according to the criteria set by the General Plan for Urban. c) Non-sectored developable land, consisting of the remaining land attached to this kind of soil. This category should take into account the natural and structural characteristics of the municipality, and the ability to integrate land use and the demands of rational, proportionate, and sustainable growth. 10
– Define Undeveloped Land. Belong to the undeveloped land that the General Plan for Urban ascribes to this kind of soil: a) Have the condition of natural public property or be subject to limitations which demands a legal regime for its integrity and effectiveness, preservation of its characteristics. b) Be subject to a protection regime for administrative law that are relevant for the preservation of nature, flora and fauna, historical or cultural heritage, or the environment in general. c) To be worthy of a special regime of protection afforded by the same General Plan for Urban. d) To present some risk of erosion, landslides, mudslides, floods, or other natural hazards. 11 – What is a Draft Reparcelling? Reparcelling projects have the aim of dividing land into parcels ordered for building or intended for the purposes intended by management. 12 – Use: Objective and Subjective. Objective use means the buildable area, measured in square meters, allowed by the general planning or instruments which are to develop on a given domain according to usage, type, and floor area allocated to it. Subjective use means the buildable area, measured in square meters, which expresses the content of a lucrative urban terrain, its owner shall be entitled by the completion of urban rights. 13 – What is a Unit of Execution? A territorially delimited area within the areas of distribution, to allow the joint fulfillment of basic urban duties, as established by existing zoning laws. 14 – What is an Urban Catalog? The catalogs are intended to supplement the determinations of the planning instruments relating to the conservation, protection, or improvement of urban heritage, architectural, historical, cultural, natural, or scenic 16 – Explains How the Spanish Town Planning Influenced Mendizabal’s Secularization. I remove the ground for religious orders to spend on equipment and open areas. 18 – How are Attics and Basements Computed in Building Area? For attics, compute the surface that has a ground clearance of 2m or more. The basement is not counted. 19 – When is a Basement Floor Accounted For? When your cast does not rise above 1.5 m from the ground. 20 – How to Measure the Maximum Height of a Building on an Ongoing Alley? From the center of the building, if the difference in elevation between the start and end of the building is more than 1.5 m, it shall be divided into as many parts of the facade as are necessary and are measured separately from its midpoint.
ly from its midpoint.