Little BIG glossary of urban planning
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Prostorni i urbanistički planovi
Urban planning - technical documents
At the bottom of the hierarchy of spatial and urban planning documents are the urban planning – technical documents:
- urban planning design
- proposal of parcellation and pre-parcellation
- geodetic survey of correction of boundaries of the neighboring lots and merging of adjacent lots belonging to the same owner.
Urban planning technical documents are not plans.
They are prepared after the adoption of the plan for a particular area, when „additional architectural testing“ of the planning proposal is required, or to resolve the issues of ownership and division of cadastral lots independently from the urban plan.
Urban planning design projects
The urban planning design project is the most complex of all urban planning – technical documents. It is exclusively based on the adopted plan, and therefore referred to as a document / tool for implementation of the planning documents.
It is applied when it is necessary to additionally define or test the conditions and parameters for construction from the adopted plan. Alternatively, when an architectural design proposal is required to „solve“ a location, due to lack of information during the preparation of the plan. This is why a preliminary design of the structure and its three-dimensional rendition are included in the urban planning design.
In general, the urban planning design cannot essentially change the main building regulations defined by the plan – concerning the land use, construction capacities, floor numbers and height of the planned structures, vacancy of the lots, percentage of green areas… However, in individual cases defined by the Law on Planning and Construction, an adopted planning decision may be changed with the urban planning design. This implies that, even after the adoption of the plan, the urban planning design may effect a change in terms of height or use of the structures. Land may be also allocated for public use, although the plan proposed something else.
The Law allows for possibilities of preparing an urban planning design at the investor’s request and when the planning document does not prescribe its mandatory submission.
Public presentation of the urban planning design project is mandatory. As the urban planning design project includes the preliminary design of a structure and its three-dimensional rendition, members of the wider public often „grasp“ what the urban plan enables or proposes for construction only when they see the 3D rendition – which is long after the plan had been adopted and in effect.
Urban planning design project is a „tool“ for implementation of already adopted plans. Its purpose is to additionally test, elaborate or „solve“ a particular location with architectural design. Accordingly, the preliminary design of a structure and its three-dimensional rendition are integral parts of the urban planning design. The wider public, therefore, often „grasps“ the spatial aspects of the plan – the scale and size of what the plan enables or anticipates for construction – only during the public presentation of the urban planning design. The urban planning design project is prepared after the adoption of the plan. Thus the objections to the urban planning design project cannot affect the plan which precedes it.
The Planning Commission has an obligation to consider all the objections, conduct expert control and establish whether the urban planning design project contradicts the plans for the wider area.
The Commission drafts a written report which includes a proposal for acceptance or refusal of the urban planning design project.
The authority in charge is not obliged to respond in a written form to the objections submitted by the citizens. They may find out whether the design project was accepted or rejected, and more on its contents, from the web page of the authority responsible for verification of the design – the town or municipal administration (www.beograd.rs).
Within five days from the verification of the urban planning design projects, each of them has to be publicly accessible at the web page of the relevant authority.
More on this is available in the chapter on public insights.
Pre-parcellation proposal
In addition to the urban planning design, a common practice which precedes obtaining the location conditions and building permits is preparation of the pre-parcellation proposal. Its purpose is formation of the building lot according to the regulations from the adopted plan. This proposal also includes joining of cadastral lots or parts thereof, and their allocation for public use.
An integral part of the pre-parcellation proposal is the proposal of geodetic marking. Planned changes in the cadastral situation are updated in the national cadastral database according to this document