National Urban Development Plan is the set of maps, graphics, and documents that describe the general policy of demographic distribution and land uses, promotion of production, physical and urban-regional development priorities, and coordination of public investments of national interest.
Urban Planning is the continuous and integral process of analysis and formulation of plans and regulations on urban development, aimed at ensuring the safety, health, comfort, and well-being of the community.
Regulatory Plan is the local planning instrument that defines, in a set of plans, maps, regulations, and any other document, graphic, or supplement, the development policy and the plans for population distribution, land uses, circulation routes, public services, community facilities, and construction, conservation, and rehabilitation of urban areas.
Land Use is the utilization of a terrain, the physical structure settled on or incorporated into it, or both, regarding the class, form, or intensity of its exploitation.
Zoning is the division of a territorial jurisdiction into use zones, for the purpose of its rational development.
Subdivision (Fraccionamiento) is the division of any property with the aim of selling, transferring, negotiating, distributing, exploiting, or using the resulting parcels separately; it includes both partitions by judicial or extrajudicial adjudication, locations of undivided rights, and mere segregations in the name of the same owner, as well as those situated in urbanizations or new constructions that are of interest to the control of the formation and urban use of real estate.
Urbanization is the subdivision (fraccionamiento) and habilitation of land for urban purposes, through the opening of streets and provision of services.
Official Map is the plan or set of plans in which the position of the layouts of public roads and areas to be reserved for community uses and services is accurately indicated.
Urban Renewal is the improvement process aimed at eradicating slum zones and rehabilitating urban areas in decay or in a defective state, and the conservation of urban areas and the prevention of their deterioration.
Construction is any structure that is fixed or incorporated into land; it includes any building, reconstruction, alteration, or expansion work that implies permanence.
Urban Development Regulations are bodies of norms adopted by municipalities for the purpose of making the Regulatory Plan effective.
Urban Area is the territorial scope of development of a population center.
Urban District is the territorial administrative jurisdiction whose delimitation corresponds to the radius of application of the respective Regulatory Plan.
Metropolitan Area is the set of urban areas corresponding to different municipal jurisdictions and which, by developing around a main population center, functions as a single urban unit.
Intensity of Use is the degree of exploitation of land or structures, taking into account: a) Type of activity developed; b) Percentage of coverage and floor area; c) Population density; and d) Resulting traffic.
Coverage is the horizontal projection of a structure or the area of land covered by such a structure.
Floor Area is the total surface area of the floors of a structure.
Setbacks (Retiros) are the unbuilt open spaces between a structure and the boundaries of the respective property.
The Institute is the abbreviated name for the National Institute of Housing and Urbanism (Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo).
Record article FIRST SECTION National Planning FIRST CHAPTER National Urban Development Plan