Abstract (EN):
The research reported in this article fits the main goals that guide the revision of the Land,
Territorial Ordinance and Urbanism Act, currently under way in Portugal. One of the main
goals searched by this revision consists in the inclusion of new territorial management
instruments in plans that support the economic and financial sustainability of urban
development operations.
Considering that planning decisions concerning zoning delimitation and urban indexes settled
in plans engender land unearned increments (surplus-values), it is legitimate that municipal
powers recapture them, and reassign them later on to social purposes framed by the
municipality´s urban goals, namely in urban regeneration and social housing grounds. Within
this scope it is proposed the collection, by each municipality, of a 30% fee on the building
capacity assigned by plans to new buildings aimed at trade, industry, tourism or services
deducted by the value of non-buildable land, and respective costs on urban infrastructure and
municipal development charges
.
This new territorial management instrument is applied, as a case study, to the intervention
area of the Urban Development Plan of the Planning Unit 11 (UP 11) of the municipality of
Lagoa (Algarve), according to the following methodology: computation of (i) the nonbuildable
land surface; (ii) the urban infrastructure costs; (iii) the municipal development
charges; (iv) the costs of non-buildable land, according to land trade market prices/m
2
; (v) the
concrete net building capacity of each planning and management operational subdivision, for
respective profitable uses; (vi) the base value this fee falls on; and (vii) the proper value of the
fee to collect.
The implementation of this new territorial management instrument is able to strengthen
municipal finance, and to foster municipalities´ economic and financial sustainability; it clears
up the origins and applications of municipal funds from urban development processes; and it
grants that surplus-values accrued by most profitable urban operations are allocated on behalf
of population´s general social interest.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica
Nº de páginas:
17