The role of urban planning in stimulating investment – Moroccan experience
Ahmed Ajaoun
Legal and Political Sciences - ِLaw School - Ibn Tofail Kenitra MOROCCO
Abstract
Urban planning is one of the foundations upon which reconstruction aims to achieve economic and social development. Construction documents are a legal framework for this planning and an essential tool for controlling and defining land use rules within the area in which they are applied. It is responsible for determining the general allocations for the land, residential, industrial, commercial, touristic and agricultural ... as well as identifying the places designated for the completion of basic and social facilities such as main roads, squares, schools ... etc. Accordingly, urban planning is an essential tool to stimulate investment by providing the necessary infrastructure to attract it and the ground necessary for its implementation. However, the rigidity and inflexibility of the construction rules in general made them in many cases an obstacle to the development of cities as well as a real hindrance to investment projects, which prompted countries to adopt a system of exceptions in the field of construction. Practice has shown that the exception is one of the necessary mechanisms in urban planning and a tool that gives the urban base the flexibility to which it is absent. As it allowed the start of suspended projects and pushed the investment dynamism, it also contributed clearly to settling the situation of a large number of investment projects and correcting a set of imbalances in the construction documents. Reviving investment and simplifying rulers. So, to what extent can urban planning contribute to stimulating and encouraging investment? What are the construction problems facing investment? And how the way to encourage construction and planning investment? Finally, what is the Moroccan experience in this field?
Keywords
"Urban planning" "urbanisme" "reconstruction" "investment"
