To promote and incentivize the development of the port of Caldera and the surrounding zones, territorial planning shall be applied in said areas by means of an urban master plan (plan regulador urbano), in accordance with the provisions of Law 4240, Urban Planning Law, of November 15, 1968.
Excepted from this amendment are the zones that are under special regimes: the Reserved Port Zone Law 5582 and its amendment by Law 7915, the Tivives Protective Zone according to Decree No. 17023, the lands of the Natural Heritage of the State (Patrimonio Natural del Estado) defined according to the Forest Law (Ley Forestal) 7575, the mangroves, forests and forest lands, and the public zone (zona pública) corresponding to the first fifty meters of the beach from the ordinary high tide.
The constructions, installations and properties located in the coastal zones of the Caldera district, administered by the Municipality of Esparza, must consider communal, touristic, urbanistic, residential, commercial and agricultural development, in a manner sustainable with the natural resources.
It shall take effect upon its publication.
Given at the Presidency of the Republic, San José, on the fifth day of the month of April of the year two thousand twenty-two.
Let it be Executed and Published.