Problems of Legal Regulation of Master Plans

The new urban development tool, master plans, began to be used in 2021. Initially, they were planned to be used for 25 cities in the Far East, but it became not only a building plans, but a vector for the long-term development of territories. While master plans are characterized by a lack of flexibility and turn into formal documents, it is assumed that the development of master plans will resolve these problems by ensuring a balance between the interests of residents, businesses, authorities and investors. At the same time, uncertainty about the status and content of the master plans provokes various conflicts, in particular, with urban planning regulations and plans for land use and development, since the master plan is currently not integrated into the hierarchy of urban planning documentation. Its advantage, on the one hand, is that the procedure for adopting this development tool is poorly regulated by regulations, so it remains flexible and comprehensive. But on the other hand, the lack of regulation of the master plan by the norms of legislation can lead to increased corruption in its implementation. Today there are many gaps in the regulatory support of master plans that affect the effectiveness of their practical implementation. The article concludes that it is necessary to carefully study the regulatory framework in order to avoid collisions of master plans with other urban planning documents and documents of territorial and strategic planning, as well as to avoid overregulation of this new tool for the development of territories.

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