Instruments of territorial planning and its application in the coastal border

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María Susana Belmar Ahonzo

Abstract

Chilean law provides of multiple instruments of territorial planning, which come to implement the standards in force in the legal system. On the one hand, there are those establish in the General Law on Urban Planning and Construction (Urban Development Regional Plan, Intercomunal or Metropolitan Regulator Plan, Municipal and Sectional Land Use Plan); and, secondly, emerge of the Coastal border zoning, a planning tool created almost twenty years ago under the National Policy for the use of the coastal border, in order to define preferred uses for different areas of the national coast, for achieving a sustainable and harmonious occupation between the various interests involved. The aim of this paper is to analyze the rules underlying these instruments, to define the scope of each one, and how they relate to one another within this strip of territory, of such relevance for a sustainable social and economic development of our country, called coastline.

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Ensayos
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María Susana Belmar Ahonzo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Magíster en Derecho con mención en Derecho Administrativo por la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.