CLARIFICATION SESSION ABOUT PDM REVIEW

The procedure for the second revision of the Municipal Master Plan of Santa Maria da Feira (PDM) is underway and, on this June 6, it will be held a clarification session, opened to all the population, in order to identify the reasons and objectives of the process and encourage suggestions and observations.

The current revision is aimed at adapting the current MPD to new legislative provisions that have been approved, namely the new legal regime for territorial management instruments, making it necessary to ensure the compatibility of the PDM with the territorial programs that affect the Municipality. 

The procedure for the second review should be extended for 13 months. For now, there is a period in which suggestions and information can be presented about any issues that may be considered relevant to the process and, in this context, it will be held a Clearing Session at the Municipal Library, on June 6, at 6:00 p.m., in order to clarify the population about the reasons and objectives of the process.

The program includes topics such as 'Territorial Dynamics in Santa Maria da Feira 2015-19', presented by the Planning Division of the City Hall, 'The New Challenges for Santa Maria da Feira', addressed by the councilor of the Municipal Works, Mobility, Planning and Territorial Planning, António Topa Gomes, and 'The New Concepts of Rural Soil and Urban Soil', with presentation by the Director of Territorial Planning of CCDR-N Cristina Guimarães. The closing session will be the responsibility of the President of the Municipality, Emídio Sousa.

The basis law of public policy for land, territory planning and town planning has projected a structural reform of the PDM, both from the point of view of contents, in order to define a set of norms related to the discipline of land use, as from the point of view of its legal system, with the aim of translating a joint vision of the planning system and soil policy instruments. The changes introduced to the Legal Regime of the Land Management Instruments have instituted a new system of classification of the soil, dividing it into urban and rustic, opting for a logic of affectation of the urban soil to the partial or totally urbanized or built soil, eliminating the operating category of the urban soil.