Urban land-use planning

Urban land-use plans are the land-use plan (preparatory urban land-use plan) and the development plan (binding urban land-use plan). The planning authority for the development plan is the municipality. The planning authority for the land use plan is the association municipality or the independent municipality. The municipality/association municipality draws up the urban land-use plans on its own responsibility within the framework of its constitutional planning sovereignty. There is no legal entitlement to the preparation of urban land-use plans.

The task of urban land-use planning is to prepare and guide the structural and other use of land. The law on urban land use planning is regulated in the first chapter of the Federal Building Code (BauGB).

Land use plan:
The outline of the type of land use resulting from the intended urban development in accordance with the foreseeable requirements must be shown in the land use plan. For example, building areas, areas for utilities, the provision of facilities and equipment for public use, areas for interurban traffic and for the main local traffic routes, forest areas and areas for agriculture can be shown.

Development plan:
The respective development plan is decisive for the buildability of a property if the property to be built on is within the scope of a development plan. The development plan can stipulate, for example, the type and extent of building use, the areas of land that can be built on and the traffic areas.