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Text consolidated by Valsts valodas centrs (State
Language Centre) with amending laws of:
15 December 2011 [shall
come into force from 1 January 2012];
24 May 2012 [shall come into force from 7 June
2012];
13 February 2014 [shall come into force from 12 March
2014].
If a whole or part of a section has been amended, the
date of the amending law appears in square brackets at
the end of the section. If a whole section, paragraph or
clause has been deleted, the date of the deletion appears
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The Saeima1 has adopted and
the President has proclaimed the following Law:
Spatial Development Planning
Law
Chapter I
General Provisions
Section 1. Terms Used in This
Law
The following terms are used in this Law:
1) development programme - a mid-term spatial development
planning document, laying down mid-term priorities and the set of
measures for implementation of long-term strategic goals set out
in the planning region or local government development
strategy;
2) sustainable development strategy - a long-term spatial
development planning document, laying down the vision,
objectives, priorities of the planning region or local government
long-term development and spatial development perspective;
3) functional zoning - division of a territory into zones
having different requirements for the permitted land use and
building;
4) public infrastructure - a component of the national economy
spatial structure formed by the technical (transport,
communications, power industry, water supply and environmental
objects) and social (education, science, health and social care,
State administration, public services, culture and recreation
objects) infrastructure;
5) thematic plan - a spatial development planning document
solving specific issues related to the development of separate
sectors (for example, transport infrastructure, layout of
healthcare institutions and educational establishments) or
specific themes (for example, layout of engineering networks,
valuable landscape areas and risk territories) according to the
planning level;
6) spatial development planning information system - a
structured set of information technologies and data bases, the
use of which ensures the creation, compilation, accumulation,
processing, use and destruction of information required for the
development and implementation of spatial development planning
documents;
7) objects of national interest - territories and objects
necessary to ensure essential public interests, protection and
sustainable use of natural resources;
8) local government spatial plan - a local government
long-term spatial development planning document, laying down the
requirements for land use and building, including functional
zoning, public infrastructure, regulations regarding land use and
building, as well as other conditions for land use, and which is
developed for an administrative territory or a part thereof;
9) local plan - a local government long-term spatial
development planning document, developed for a part of the city,
a municipality town or its part, a village or its part, or a part
of rural territory for solving a planning task or detailing or
amending a spatial plan;
10) detailed plan - detailed plan of a part of local
government territory developed in order to lay down the
requirements for the use of specific land units and building
parameters, as well as to adjust the borders of land units and
restrictions;
11) maritime spatial plan - a national level long-term spatial
development planning document, laying down use of the sea,
considering a terrestrial part that is functionally interlinked
with the sea.
[13 February 2014]
Section 2. Purpose of this Law
The purpose of this Law is to ensure such spatial development
planning that would raise the quality of the living environment,
ensure sustainable, effective and rational use of territories and
other resources, as well as targeted and balanced development of
economy.
Section 3. Principles for Spatial
Development Planning
In spatial development planning, the principles set out in the
Development Planning System Law, as well as the following
principles shall be complied with:
1) the principle of sustainability - spatial development is
planned in order to preserve and form a good environmental
quality, balanced economic development, rational use of natural,
human and material resources, development of the natural and
cultural heritage for the present and next generations;
2) the principle of succession - new spatial development
planning documents are developed, evaluating the existing spatial
development planning documents and practical implementation
thereof;
3) the principle of equal opportunities - sectoral and
territorial interests, as well as interests of private
individuals and public interests are assessed in interconnection
to promote sustainable development of the relevant territory;
4) the principle of continuity - spatial development is
planned continuously, flexibly and in cycles, supervising this
process and evaluating the latest information, knowledge, needs
and possible solutions;
5) the principle of transparency - the public involvement and
transparency of information and decision-making in spatial
development planning and development of documents is ensured;
6) the principle of integrated approach - economic, cultural,
social and environmental aspects are co-ordinated, sectoral
interests are co-ordinated, spatial development priorities are
co-ordinated at all planning levels, co-operation is purposeful,
and the impact of the planned solutions on the surrounding
territories and the environment is assessed;
7) the principle of diversity - spatial development is
planned, taking into account the diversity of natural, cultural
environment, human and material resources and economic
activity;
8) the principle of coherence - spatial development planning
documents are developed by coherently co-ordinating them and
evaluating other spatial development planning documents.
Section 4. Public Participation in
Spatial Development Planning
(1) Spatial development shall be planned through public
participation. The authority conforming to the planning level has
a duty to ensure openness of information and decision-making, as
well as ascertain the public opinion and organise public
participation in spatial development planning, providing as
detailed and comprehensible information as possible.
(2) Public participation in spatial development planning shall
be ensured by the relevant State authority, planning region or
local government according to the planning level in conformity
with laws and regulations laying down the requirements for public
participation.
(3) In order to ensure public discussion of spatial plan, the
relevant authority shall consult with the public before
decision-making. The authority shall, on the website thereof,
publish information regarding commencement of developing of
spatial plan and amendments thereto, the procedures for, location
and time periods of the public discussion, the place and time for
getting acquainted with the particular spatial plan and
amendments thereto, and the procedures for submitting written
proposals and opinions.
(4) During the public participation, the interests of private
individuals and public interests shall be balanced with the
sustainable spatial development.
(5) Everyone has the right to become acquainted with the
spatial development planning documents which are in force and
have been handed over for public discussion, to participate in
the public discussion, to express and defend his or her opinion
and submit written proposals within the specified time
period.
(6) The authorities referred to in Paragraph two of this
Section have a duty, during the development of spatial
development planning documents, to evaluate, in a balanced way,
the proposals expressed and substantiate their decisions, as well
as to notify these decisions to the public and submitters of
proposals regarding the decisions.
[13 February 2014]
Section 5. Spatial Development
Planning Levels and Documents
(1) Spatial development shall be planned by drawing up the
following coherently co-ordinated spatial development planning
documents:
1) at the national level - the Sustainable Development
Strategy of Latvia and the National Development Plan;
2) at the regional level - the sustainable development
strategy and the development programme of a planning region;
3) at the local level - the sustainable development strategy,
the development programme, the spatial plan, a local plan and a
detailed plan of a local government.
(2) At all the levels, when developing spatial development
planning documents, a strategic environmental impact assessment
shall be ensured, if it is necessary in accordance with laws and
regulations.
Section 6. Spatial Development
Planning Information System
(1) The purpose of the spatial development planning
information system is to ensure accumulation, processing and
public accessibility of spatial development planning documents of
all levels and of information related to spatial planning. The
spatial development planning information system shall ensure
access to data of other State information systems used for the
development of spatial development planning documents.
(2) The ministry responsible for spatial development planning
shall be the administrator of the spatial development planning
information system.
(3) Spatial development planning documents and data entered
into the spatial development planning information system shall be
publicly accessible free of charge, except the data accessibility
of which is restricted in accordance with laws and
regulations.
(4) Geospatial data sets downloaded from the spatial
development planning information system or such geospatial data
sets, to which a direct access is ensured from other information
systems, shall be used according to regulatory provisions of the
holder of the geospatial data set.
[13 February 2014]
Chapter II
Competence of Public Institutions in Spatial Development
Planning
Section 7. Competence of the
Cabinet
(1) The Cabinet shall:
1) [13 February 2014];
2) approve thematic plans of the national level;
3) define the content of spatial development planning
documents of the regional level, and the procedures for
developing, implementation and monitoring thereof;
4) define the content of spatial development planning
documents of the local level, the procedures for developing and
public discussion thereof, the procedures for financing a local
plan and detailed plan and the requirements to be included in a
contract regarding the development and financing of a local plan
or detailed plan;
5) define the requirements for persons developing spatial
development planning documents;
6) define general requirements for spatial development
planning, land use and building of the local level;
7) define classification of land use types;
8) prescribe the procedures for establishing and operating the
spatial development planning information system, collecting,
processing and dissemination of information required for it, and
the content of the data of the spatial development planning
information system, as well as the procedures for data exchange
with other State information systems;
9) define the ministry responsible for spatial development
planning;
10) lay down the procedures for developing, implementation and
monitoring of maritime spatial plan, and approve the maritime
spatial plan;
11) define, establish and approve objects of national interest
and the requirements for the use thereof, unless prescribed
otherwise by other laws.
(2) The Cabinet shall provide for funding for the developing
and updating of spatial development planning documents of the
national and regional level in the State budget for the current
year.
[13 February 2014]
Section 8. Competence of the National Development
Council [13 February 2014]
Section 9. Competence of the
Ministry Responsible for Spatial Development Planning
The ministry responsible for spatial development planning
shall:
1) develop the maritime spatial plan and national thematic
plans according to the competence thereof;
2) methodically manage and supervise spatial development
planning at the regional and local level, including supervision
of public discussion organisation;
3) provide opinions on the conformity of the draft development
strategies and development programmes of planning regions with
spatial development planning documents of the national level and
the requirements of laws and regulations;
4) evaluate the conformity of local government spatial plans
and local plans with laws and regulations, if it is necessary for
performance of the activities referred to in Sections 26 and 27
of this Law;
5) ensure the maintenance of the spatial development planning
information system.
[13 February 2014]
Section 10. Competence of Sectoral
Ministries
(1) Sectoral ministries shall prepare proposals and, in
accordance with the procedures laid down in laws and regulations,
advance them for defining objects of national interest and, if
necessary, develop thematic plans.
(2) Sectoral ministries shall co-operate with State and local
government institutions and ensure provision of information or
advance requirements for the developing of spatial development
planning documents of all levels.
[13 February 2014]
Section 11. Competence of a Planning
Region
A planning region shall:
1) develop and approve the sustainable development strategy of
planning region and the development programme, as well as
co-ordinate and monitor the implementation thereof;
2) provide proposals for the developing of development
planning documents of the national and local level;
3) provide opinions on the conformity of the draft local
government development strategies and development programmes with
spatial development planning documents and the requirements of
laws and regulations;
4) co-ordinate and monitor the developing of sustainable
development strategies, development programmes, spatial plans and
local plans of local governments.
Section 12. Competence of a Local
Government
(1) A local government shall develop and approve the local
government development strategy, development programme, spatial
plan, local plans, detailed plans and thematic plans.
(2) A local government shall provide proposals for development
of the national and regional level development planning
documents.
(3) A local government shall co-ordinate and monitor the
implementation of the local government development strategy,
development programme, spatial plan, local plans, detailed plans
and thematic plans.
Section 13. Financing of the
Development of Spatial Development Planning Documents of a
Planning Region and Local Government
(1) Carrying out of the functions of a planning region shall
be ensured by funding from resources from the State budget for
the current year intended for the support of a planning region
and from other resources.
(2) A local government shall provide for resources for the
developing of spatial development planning documents in the
budget thereof.
(3) If an initiator of a local plan or detailed plan is not
the relevant local government, the developing and implementation
thereof shall be financed by the initiator, concluding a contract
regarding it with the local government. In such case the local
government may participate in co-financing of the local plan or
detailed plan in accordance with the procedures laid down in laws
and regulations.
Section 14. Provision of Data and
Information Necessary for the Developing of Spatial Development
Planning Documents
(1) State and local government institutions shall provide the
information necessary for developing of all types of spatial
development planning documents free of charge, and such
information shall be prepared and maintained by the
abovementioned institutions from the budget resources.
(2) If the funding necessary for creating and maintaining a
geospatial data set is not ensured from the State or
self-government budget, such geospatial data set shall be used
(including provision of direct accessibility) for a charge
according to the price list of paid services of the geospatial
data set holder.
Chapter III
Spatial Development Planning at the National Level
Section 15. Sustainable Development
Strategy of Latvia and National Development Plan
The Sustainable Development Strategy of Latvia and the
National Development Plan shall be developed in accordance with
the procedures laid down in laws and regulations.
Section 16. Maritime Spatial
Plan
(1) A maritime spatial plan shall define the use of the sea,
considering a terrestrial part that is functionally interlinked
with the sea and co-ordinating interests of various sectors and
local governments in use of the sea.
(2) Developing of a maritime spatial plan shall be organised
by the ministry responsible for spatial development planning in
co-operation with sectoral ministries, planning regions and local
governments, bordering upon the sea.
[13 February 2014]
Section 17. Defining of Objects of
National Interest
(1) Proposals regarding defining of objects of national
interest shall be prepared and, in accordance with the procedures
laid down in laws and regulations, advanced for approval to the
Cabinet by a relevant sectoral ministry in co-operation with
local governments, the territory of which will be affected by the
object of national interest. The proposal shall contain
justification for the choice of a location and results of the
environmental impact assessment, if such is necessary in
accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations.
(2) The territory necessary for the functioning of the object
of national interest and protection zone, if such is provided for
in laws and regulations, as well as the requirements for the use
of such object, shall be determined for the object of national
interest.
(3) If an environmental impact assessment is not applied, the
relevant sectoral ministry shall organise informing of the public
regarding the proposal in accordance with the procedures
stipulated by the Cabinet.
[13 February 2014]
Chapter IV
Spatial Development Planning at the Regional Level
Section 18. Sustainable Development
Strategy of a Planning Region
(1) The sustainable development strategy of a planning region
is a long-term spatial development planning document, specifying
the vision of the long-term development, strategic objectives,
priorities of the planning region and the spatial development
perspective in written and graphic form.
(2) The sustainable development strategy of a planning region
shall be developed according to the State long-term strategic
objectives laid down in the Sustainable Development Strategy of
Latvia, taking into account the long-term development objectives
laid down in long-term development strategies of adjacent
planning regions and evaluating spatial development planning
documents of the local governments contained in the relevant
planning region.
(3) The sustainable development strategy of a planning region
shall be approved by a decision of the Planning Region
Development Council.
[13 February 2014]
Section 19. Planning Region
Development Programme
(1) A planning region development programme shall be developed
according to the National Development Plan and the sustainable
development strategy of a planning region, based on development
programmes of local governments located within the relevant
planning region, as well as taking into account the development
programmes of adjacent planning regions.
(2) A planning region development programme shall contain the
current situation analysis, tendencies and forecasts, as well as
information regarding the developing process of the development
programme, and shall define mid-term priorities, the set of
measures for the implementation thereof and the procedures for
monitoring thereof.
(3) A planning region development programme shall be approved
by a decision of the Planning Region Development Council.
Chapter V
Spatial Development Planning at the Local Level
Section 20. Local Government Spatial
Development Planning Documents
A local government shall have the following coherently
co-ordinated spatial planning documents:
1) sustainable development strategy of the local
government;
2) development programme of the local government;
3) spatial plan of the local government;
4) local plans;
5) detailed plans;
6) thematic plans.
Section 21. Sustainable Development
Strategy of a Local Government
(1) The sustainable development strategy of a local government
is a long-term spatial development planning document, laying down
the vision of the local government long-term development,
strategic objectives, development priorities and the spatial
development perspective in written and graphic form, and this
strategy shall be developed according to the sustainable
development strategy of the planning region, evaluating spatial
development planning documents of adjacent local governments.
(2) In spatial development perspective the guidelines for
spatial development shall be specified, as well as the most
significant spatial structures, development priorities and
preferable long-term changes of the local government shall be
specified and displayed schematically.
(3) The sustainable development strategy of local government
shall be approved by a decision of the local government
council.
[13 February 2014]
Section 22. Local Government
Development Programme
(1) A local government development programme shall be
developed according to the sustainable development strategy of a
local government, evaluating spatial development planning
documents of the national and regional level, as well as spatial
development planning documents of adjacent local governments.
(2) A local government development programme shall include the
analysis of the current situation, tendencies and forecasts, as
well as information regarding the developing process of the
development programme, and shall define mid-term priorities, the
action and investment plan, the amount of resources necessary for
the implementation of the development programme and the
procedures for monitoring of the development programme.
(3) A local government development programme shall be approved
by a decision of the local government council.
[13 February 2014]
Section 23. Local Government Spatial
Plan
(1) A local government spatial plan shall be developed
according to the sustainable development strategy of a local
government and taking into consideration other spatial
development planning documents of the national, regional and
local level.
(2) In a local government spatial plan the functional zoning
and public infrastructure shall be specified, the regulations
regarding land use and building, as well as other conditions for
land use and restrictions shall be regulated.
(3) In accordance with laws and regulations laying down
general requirements for local government spatial planning and
building, land use for rural territory of the local government
may be specified on the basis of the sustainable development
strategy of a local government and information of the updated
topographic map.
(4) Changes in the functional zoning specified in a local
government spatial plan or in the regulations regarding land use
and building shall be developed as amendments to the local
government spatial plan or as a local plan in accordance with
Section 24, Paragraph three of this Law.
(5) If new laws and regulations with a higher legal force,
related to information to be included in a local government
spatial plan, come into force, the local government shall
evaluate the necessity of amending its spatial plan. If the local
government does not amend its spatial plan, in case of
contradictions the requirements of the regulatory enactment with
a higher legal force shall be applied.
(6) It shall be permitted to install engineering communication
networks and objects in any functional zone specified in a
spatial plan, in compliance with the requirements of the Cabinet
regulations referred to in Section 7, Paragraph six of this Law
and other laws and regulations.
(7) If a new spatial development planning document of a higher
level comes into effect, the local government shall evaluate the
spatial plan thereof and take a decision on the necessity of
amending it.
[13 February 2014]
Section 24. Local Plan
(1) A local government shall develop a local plan upon its own
initiative and use it as the basis for further planning, as well
as for building designing.
(2) A local government spatial plan may be detailed in a local
plan. After coming into effect of the sustainable development
strategy of a local government, the local government spatial plan
may be amended in the local plan, insofar as the local plan is
not in contradiction with the sustainable development strategy of
the local government.
(3) Changes in the functional zoning specified in a local plan
or in the regulations regarding land use and building shall be
developed as amendments to the local plan in accordance with the
procedures laid down in laws and regulations.
(4) The functional zoning specified in a local plan and the
regulations regarding land use and building shall be in effect in
the territory of the local plan. If new laws and regulations with
a higher legal force, related to the functional zoning specified
in a local plan and regulations regarding land use and building,
come into effect, the local government shall evaluate the
necessity of amending the local plan.
Section 25. Adopting and Coming into
Effect of a Local Government Spatial Plan and Local Plan
(1) A local government spatial plan and a local plan shall be
approved by the binding regulations of the local government. They
shall come into effect on the day following the publication of
the relevant notification in the official gazette Latvijas
Vēstnesis [the official Gazette of the Government of
Latvia].
(2) The local government shall publish a notification
regarding adoption of the binding regulations in the official
gazette Latvijas Vēstnesis, local newspaper and on the
website of the local government within two weeks after approval
of the binding regulations. The local government shall publish on
the website thereof a decision to approve the binding regulations
and the documents appended thereto.
(3) A decision to approve the binding regulations and the
documents appended thereto shall be sent by the local government
to the ministry responsible for spatial development planning.
(4) The binding regulations referred to in this Section shall
not be implementable as long as the activities referred to in
Section 27, Paragraph three of this Law are not finished.
(5) Until commencing the implementation of the binding
regulations referred to in this Section the local government
shall apply the binding regulations, by which the previous
spatial plan, local plan or amendments thereto were approved.
[24 May 2012; 13 February 2014]
Section 26. Suspension of Operation
of a Local Government Spatial Plan and Local Plan upon the
Initiative of a Minister
(1) If violations of the procedure for the developing of local
government spatial plan or local plan or a non-conformity with
the requirements of laws and regulations are determined, the
minister responsible for spatial development planning
(hereinafter - minister) shall, not later than within six months
after the local government spatial plan or local plan has come
into effect, issue an order to suspend the binding regulations,
which approved the spatial plan or local plan, or a part of such
binding regulations.
(2) If the minister has issued the order referred to in
Paragraph one of this Section and Section 27, Paragraph three of
this Law, the Chairperson of the local government council shall,
within two weeks after the order has come into force, convene an
extraordinary meeting of the local government council, at which
the council shall take a decision to cancel the binding
regulations or a part thereof or to submit an application to the
Constitutional Court.
(3) The order referred to in Paragraph one of this Section
shall suspend the operation of the local government spatial plan
or local plan in the part specified in the order until the day
when a decision of the local government council to cancel the
binding regulations or a part thereof or an adjudication of the
Constitutional Court comes into effect.
[13 February 2014]
Section 27. Appealing of a Local
Government Spatial Plan and Local Plan
(1) Within two months after coming into effect of the binding
regulations, which approve the spatial plan or local plan, a
person may submit an application regarding the local government
spatial plan or local plan to the ministry responsible for
spatial development planning.
(2) Within 10 days after the end of the time period for
submitting submissions laid down in Paragraph one of this
Section, the ministry responsible for spatial development
planning shall inform the local government regarding the
submissions received and, if possible, indicate the extent to
which the local government spatial plan or local plan may be
implemented until the day when the order of the minister will be
issued or, if no submission has been received, inform the local
government thereof, indicating the day when the local government
may commence implementation of the relevant binding
regulations.
(3) Within one month from the day when the time period for
submitting applications has expired, the ministry responsible for
spatial development planning shall evaluate the submitted
applications in accordance with the procedures laid down in
Paragraph one of this Section. If, when examining a submission,
violations of the procedures for developing the spatial plan,
local plan or a part thereof or a non-conformity with the
requirements of laws and regulations have been determined, the
minister shall issue an order to suspend the binding regulations,
informing the submitter of the submission thereof. If no
violation has been determined, the ministry responsible for
spatial development planning shall provide a reply to the
submission. The reply to the submission provided shall not be
examined in accordance with the procedures of administrative
proceedings. The ministry responsible for spatial development
planning shall also inform the local government that violations
have not been determined and concurrently specify the day when
implementation of the relevant binding regulations may be
commenced.
(4) A person is entitled, in accordance with the procedures
laid down by law, to submit to the Constitutional Court a
constitutional complaint regarding the conformity of the local
government binding regulations with the norms of higher legal
force, if before that the person has submitted a submission in
accordance with Paragraph one of this Section.
(5) If a submission is not submitted within the time period
referred to in Paragraph one of this Section, it shall be
examined in accordance with the Law On Submissions, and all that
is prescribed in Paragraphs one, two, three and four of this
Section shall not apply thereto. An overdue time period shall not
be renewed.
(6) In addition to what has been laid down in this Section, if
the time periods indicated therein are not observed, the
Constitutional Court may, in accordance with the procedures laid
down by the Constitutional Court Law, evaluate a local government
spatial plan and local plan also in the case if a general
jurisdiction court or an administrative court addresses the
Constitutional Court, including also after hearing of opinions of
participants of the proceedings.
[13 February 2014]
Section 28. Detailed Plan
(1) The types and restrictions for land use provided for in
the functional zoning specified in a spatial plan or local plan
shall be detailed and specified in a detailed plan according to
the scale precision, laying down the requirements for land use
and building for each land unit.
(2) For a part of a rural territory of a local government, for
which the functional zoning has not been developed, a detailed
plan shall be developed in compliance with the sustainable
development strategy of the local government. In the work task of
a detailed plan the requirements and provisions shall be
stipulated, observing what has been laid down in laws and
regulations and spatial development planning documents of a
higher level, as well as the specificity of the particular
situation.
(3) A detailed plan shall be developed before commencing new
construction or subdivision of land units, if it creates a
necessity for complex solutions and unless laid down otherwise in
laws and regulations.
(4) A local government shall define in the work task the
necessity for the developing of a detailed plan and the level of
detail, taking into account the justification for the developing.
The developing of detailed plan may be combined, to a certain
extent, with building designing, ensuring public discussion in
accordance with laws and regulations.
[13 February 2014]
Section 29. Approval of a Detailed
Plan
A local government shall approve a detailed plan with a
general administrative act, relating it to the land unit, and it
shall come into effect after announcement thereof. A detailed
plan shall be in effect until it is cancelled or repealed. A
detailed plan shall lose validity also in the case, if the time
period for commencing the implementation thereof has expired and
it has not been extended within a year after the end of such time
period. A notification regarding approval of a detailed plan
shall be published according to the same procedures as laid down
for a notification regarding approval of a spatial plan or local
plan, except the time period for publishing the binding
regulations of a local government.
Section 30. Appealing of a Detailed
Plan
(1) A detailed plan may be appealed to the administrative
court in accordance with the procedures laid down in the
Administrative Procedure Law within a month after publishing the
notification regarding the approval of the detailed plan, and
regardless of whether the procedures and time period for
appealing are indicated in the detailed plan.
(2) Until the end of the time period for appealing, as well as
in the case of suspension of operation of a detailed plan, a
local government is not entitled to take decisions related to the
implementation of the detailed plan.
(3) Appealing of a detailed plan shall suspend operation of
the detailed plan until the day when a court adjudication comes
into effect. In the cases laid down in the Administrative
Procedure Law, renewal of the operation of a suspended detailed
plan may be requested.
Section 31. Procedures for
Implementation of a Detailed Plan
(1) A detailed plan shall be implemented according to an
administrative contract concluded between the local government
and the implementer of the developing of detailed plan.
(2) A contract shall, in accordance with the provisions of the
Administrative Procedure Law, contain various conditions, time
periods and disclaimers regarding cancellation, as well as
requirements concerning the time period for commencement of
construction work of objects, management of the detailed plan
territory and public infrastructure, construction stages and
consequence thereof.
(3) A local government may specify the time period within
which the implementation of the detailed plan is to be commenced
- building (use) of the detailed plan territory in compliance
with the detailed plan solution and the requirements specified.
Subdivision or merging of land units according to the detailed
plan shall not be considered to be the implementation of the
detailed plan.
(4) If a local government, having evaluated the relevant
request, rejects it, does not extend the time period for
implementation of the detailed plan and substantiates the
decision thereof, it may be contested or appealed.
Section 32. Thematic Plans
(1) Thematic plans may be developed at all spatial development
planning levels and the term of operation of thematic plans shall
be determined by an authority approving the relevant thematic
plan.
(2) Thematic plans shall be taken into consideration when
developing other spatial development planning documents.
Section 33. Displaying of Encumbered
Territories, Objects and Protection Zones Specified for Them
Encumbered territories, as well as objects and protection
zones specified for them, shall be displayed in spatial
development planning documents in accordance with the procedures
laid down in the Law On the Information System of Encumbered
Territories.
Transitional Provisions
1. With the coming into force of this Law, the Spatial
Planning Law (Latvijas Republikas Saeimas un Ministru Kabineta
Ziņotājs, 2002, No. 13; 2003, No. 10; 2005, No. 5; 2007, No.
10, No. 24; 2008, No. 24; 2010, No. 40) is repealed.
2. The Cabinet shall:
1) by 31 May 2012 issue the Cabinet regulations referred to in
Section 7, Paragraph one, Clauses 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of this
Law;
2) by 31 December 2012 issue the Cabinet regulations referred
to in Section 7, Paragraph one, Clause 10 of this Law;
3) by 1 September 2014 issue the Cabinet regulations referred
to in Section 7, Paragraph one, Clause 8 of this Law.
[13 February 2014]
3. Developing of a maritime spatial plan shall be commenced
not later than by 1 January 2014. Until the day maritime spatial
plan comes into effect, decisions on use of the territorial sea,
continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of Latvia shall be
taken by the Cabinet, unless laid down otherwise in laws and
regulations.
4. Until the approval of a local government spatial
development plan, developed in accordance with the procedures
laid down in this Law, in the territory of the relevant local
government or a part thereof, the spatial plan of the local
government approved until the coming into force of this Law shall
be in force.
5. Requirements stipulated by this Law for determining the
national interest objects shall not apply to the national
interest objects established until the day of coming into force
of this Law.
6. Developing of planning region and local government
development programmes, which has been commenced prior to the
coming into force of this Law, shall be completed in accordance
with the requirements of laws and regulations, which were in
force when the developing of the relevant development programmes
was commenced.
7. Local governments and planning regions shall ensure the
developing or updating of sustainable development strategies and
development programmes in accordance with this Law by 31 December
2014.
[13 February 2014]
8. If until the day of coming into force of this Law a local
government spatial plan or amendments to a spatial plan are in
the process of developing, the local government shall take a
decision in which it shall indicate the laws and regulations in
accordance with which the developing of the spatial plan or
amendments to the spatial plan is to be completed.
9. Detailed plans, the developing of which has been commenced
prior to coming into force of this Law, shall be completed in
accordance with the requirements of such laws and regulations,
which were in force on the day of commencing the developing of
the detailed plans, but no later than by 31 December 2012.
10. After coming into force of this Law, the following
detailed plans shall be in force:
1) those which have been approved by the local government
binding regulations;
2) those which have been developed in accordance with the
procedures laid down in Clause 9 of these Transitional
Provisions.
11. Until the day of coming into force of the relevant Cabinet
regulations, but not later than until 31 December 2012, the
following Cabinet Regulations are in force, insofar as they do
not contradict this Law:
1) Cabinet Regulation No. 1148 of 6 October 2009,
Regulations Regarding Spatial Planning of a Local
Government; and
2) Cabinet Regulation No. 236 of 5 April 2005, Regulations
Regarding Spatial Planning of a Planning Region.
12. The Cabinet Regulation No. 121 of 14 February 2006,
Procedures for the Allocation of an Earmarked Subsidy for
Drawing up of Spatial Plans of Planning Regions and Local
Governments and the Amendments Thereto, shall be applicable
until the end of the time period specified for acquisition of an
earmarked subsidy in the referred Regulation, but not longer than
until 31 December 2014.
[15 December 2011]
13. Until the day of coming into force of new Cabinet
regulations, the Cabinet Regulation No. 977 of 12 October 2010,
Regulations Regarding Agricultural Territories of National
Significance, shall be applicable, insofar as it is not in
contradiction with this Law, but not longer than until 31 May
2013.
14. Local governments shall, by 31 December 2015, insert the
existing spatial development planning documents into the spatial
development planning system.
[13 February 2014]
15. Until the day of coming into force of amendments to
Section 12, Paragraphs one, two and three of the Development
Planning System Law, as well as the amendment regarding deletion
of Paragraph five of the referred Section, developing of the
Sustainable Development Strategy of Latvia and the National
Development Plan shall be co-ordinated by the ministry
responsible for spatial development planning.
16. Section 27 of this Law shall come into force concurrently
with the amendments to the Constitutional Court Law.
This Law shall come into force on 1 December 2011.
This Law has been adopted by the Saeima on 13 October
2011.
President A. Bērziņš
Riga, 2 November 2011
1 The Parliament of the Republic of
Latvia
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