Urban Land Use and Regulatory Audit Study

Urban Land Use and Regulatory Audit Study Centre for Good Governance Road No:25,Jubilee Hills Hyderabad -500033 2003 i Contents • Urban Sector Reform Agenda - (iii) • Urban Planning Reforms - (iii) • Objectives - (iv) • Methodology - (iv) • Urban Planning Regulations - (x- xv) • Recommendations - (xvi- xxxvi) iiƒƒƒƒƒƒƒƒ Urban Land Use and Regulatory Audit Study There are three key policy dimensions that urban sector reforms should address. These are: urban planning, urban development strategy and urban governance. Urban planning, which includes regulated land development and carefully laying out the infrastructure systems, is important for making cities livable and viable. The infrastructure systems cannot be put in place by market forces alone. They have to be necessarily planned and are prerequisites for effectively functioning urban and regional markets. The second policy dimension in urban reforms relates to city development strategies tailored to the geographical, demographic and economic specificities of local areas and regions. The ...