Ordnance Planning for Greater Metropolitan Area

The Government of Costa Rica is preparing a third plan for land ordnance in the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM by its initials in Spanish).

Monday, May 13, 2013

This was announced by Guido Monge, Minister of Housing and Settlements (MIVAH)."It is called Plan GAM 2013, and will be built on the remains of its two predecessors: the Regional Urban Plan for the Greater Metropolitan Area (PRUGAM) and the Land Use Plan (POTGAM) (the latter introduced in January this year) which never, because of their designs, reached the approval stage, " noted an article in Elfinancierocr.com.

Although since January there has been a working plan which has as an objective the approval of the proposed new policy tool, the implications of land ordnance on markets such as the real estate market have not yet been discussed with those parties affected.

Project developers and real estate brokers have said that the government so far has not taken into account their views on the characteristics required of development of the GAM. Aleida Bonilla and Bernardino Bravo, presidents of chambers of realtors and property owners, respectively, say they are willing to participate in the process to raise their concerns and ideas, without yet having a clear idea of what the main lines that they intend to draw will be.

Working on the task of seeking input and agreements is the Brazilian Alberto Paranhos, Habitat UN official, a UN body that is helping to develop the proposal.

According to Paranhos, the country needs to look father forward if it wants a real plan to grow its cities."There is a need to review and modernize laws like urban planning and modernize the National Institute of Housing and Urbanism (INVU)," he added.

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