Contents of a general plan of a township or class-V urban center not yet recognized as township

According to Article 17 of Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, contents of a general plan of a township or class-V urban center not yet recognized as township include:

- Analysis and evaluation of natural conditions and the present socio-economic situation; population and labor; land use; current situation of the construction of technical and social infrastructure facilities and environment in the township or urban center.

- Identification of development objectives and driving force: population characteristics and size, labor, area of urban construction land; and social and technical infrastructure criteria for different periods of development.

- Projected land use of the township or urban center in each planning period.

- Urban space development orientations, including:

+ Urban development directions:

+ Identification of scopes or sizes functional areas in the township or urban center; areas to be refurbished, renovated and conserved; new development areas, no-construction areas; and reserve areas for development;

+ Identification of population density and land use criteria for urban planning and development orientations for each functional area;

+ Identification of the administrative center, trade and service centers, public centers; parks and open-space areas in the township or urban center;

+ Orientations for spatial organization, architecture and landscape for functional areas in the township or urban center, and main spatial axes.

- Development orientations for urban technical infrastructure, covering:

+ General evaluation and selection of land for urban development; identification of standard ground floor levels for the whole township or urban center and each of its zones;

+ Identification of the external transport network, urban roads, locations and sizes of key transport works: identification of red-line boundaries of trunk urban roads and the system of technical tunnels;

+ Identification of water and power demands and supply sources; total volumes of wastewater and garbage; locations, sizes and capacity of key works and transmission and distribution networks of water and power supply, lighting, communication and water drainage; locations and sizes of solid waste treatment facilities, cemeteries and other works.

- Strategic environmental assessment.

- Proposed priority investment projects and implementation resources.

- Urban spatial and technical infrastructure development orientations for different periods, demonstrated on 1:5,000- or 1:10.000-scale maps.

View details at Decree No. 37/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from May 25, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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