Social assignment of surplus-values accrued by plans: a new sustainable urban management instrument

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2014

Authors

Emília Malcata Rebelo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: CITTA 7th Annual Conference on Planning Research: Bridging the implementation gap of Accessibility Instruments and Planning Support Systems

Initial page: 43

CITTA 7th Annual Conference on Planning Research

Porto (FEUP), 24th of October 2014.

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences > Social and economic geography

CORDIS: Social sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): The current article reports a proposal of a new territorial management instrument, aimed at assuring municipal economic and financial sustainability, through the financing of municipal urban development directed to social purposes, and through clear and fair procedures in equal development distribution of costs and benefits that accrue from planning decisions. This new urban management instrument is based on the taxation of licensed built surfaces above the municipal abstract average built surface. It is duly explained, justified under an economic and financial perspective, and applied to the Detailed Plan of Avenida Papa João XXIII, in Fátima (in the Municipality of Ourém, Portugal). In this study average municipal building capacities are computed, as well as the concrete building capacities/m2 that accrue from urban interventions in the planning area for the different plots, anticipated kinds of uses, and applicable urban parameters. The homologous surplus-values assigned by the Detailed Plan are further anticipated, as well as the potential values this new instrument would be able to collect. Finally, respective costs and benefits that result to the Municipality of Ourém are assessed. From this research one can conclude that this new territorial management instrument is sustainable from an economic and financial standpoint. Its application is generalized to other municipalities, and it potentially exerts important impacts in respective financial strengthening.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 16