Abstract (EN):
The research reported in this article aims at assessing how territorial management instruments applied
at the municipal level can allocate for the social interest the land unearned increments that stem from
public decisions concerning the implementation of territorial plans and/or changes in land uses or land
use intensities.
If, on the one hand, the characteristics of the physical spaces ¿ that result from public, private and/or
community decisions ¿ set the conditions for local peoples´ everyday life, the municipality shall vest
economic and financial sustainability conditions that are able to support peoples´ quality of life, on the
other. Thus territorial management instruments applied at the local level shall be able to manage the
physical, social and cultural spaces in a balanced way. And to pursue this goal, these instruments shall
be designed to recover the land unearned increments engendered by public decisions that, instead of
finishing at private landowners hands, should better go back to that municipality´s population.
So the new territorial management instrument herein proposed consists in charging
landowners/promoters a 20% fee on land surplus-values that result from the assignment by urban plans
of specific building capacities to certain urban interventions. The proposed methodology is applied to
the Urban Development Plan of the Planning Unit 11 of the municipality of Lagoa, located in the Algarve,
Portugal.
This new territorial management instrument may be easily applied to other municipalities, within the
scope of the application of different kinds of urban plans. It ensures that the surplus-values they
engender are pointed to social purposes. And it further supports municipal economic and financial
sustainability based on a strategic and integrated planning perspective.
Idioma:
Inglês
Tipo (Avaliação Docente):
Científica
Nº de páginas:
10