Law No. 3038-VI “On Regulation of City Planning Activity.”

The Law establishes the legal and organizational principles of urban planning activity and is aimed at ensuring sustainable development of territories with due consideration of state, community and private interests. General scheme of a locality shall mean the urban planning documentation defining fundamental decisions for the development, planning, development and other use of the territory of a locality. Urban planning conditions and restrictions for the development of a land plot shall mean a document containing a set of planning and architectural requirements for the design and construction regarding the number of storeys and density of development of a land plot, derogation of houses and structures from red lines, boundaries of a land plot, its improvement and landscaping, other requirements for construction objects established by legislation and urban planning documentation. Territorial planning and development shall be an activity of state bodies, local self-government, legal entities and natural persons that entails: (a) forecasting territorial development; (b) ensuring rational displacement of population and determining directions of sustainable territorial development; (c) substantiating land distribution by its intended purpose; (d) mutual coordination of state, community and private interests during territorial zoning and development; (e) determining and reasonable mutual placement of residential and civil areas, industrial, recreational, environmental, health care, historical and cultural, and other zones and objects; (f) determining development regimes for territories on which urban planning activity is envisaged; (g) elaboration of urban planning and project documentation, constructing objects; (h) reconstructing the existing buildings and territories; (i) preserving, creating and restoring recreational, environmental and health care territories and objects, landscapes, forests, parks, mini parks and separate vegetation sites; (j) creating and developing engineering and transport infrastructure; (k) creating an unhindered living environment for people with disabilities and other low-mobility groups of the population; (l) monitoring of development; (m) maintaining the urban land-use planning cadastre; and (n) exercising control in the sphere of urban planning. The instrument for the state regulation of territorial planning shall be the urban planning documentation, which is divided into documentation of the state, regional and local levels. Territorial zoning plan shall be developed on the basis of the general scheme of the locality (either as part of it or as a separate document) in order to define the conditions and restrictions for the use of the territory for urban planning purposes within certain areas.