System of incentives to urbanistic operations with municipal interest

Abstract

The research reported in this article presents a proposal to develop a system of incentives to urban municipal-interest operations intended to improve the use of already existing buildings and sites that meet municipal strategic urban goals (despite these buildings and sites are valueless for real estate promoters). The current system of incentives proposes a device that vests municipal powers with the right to assign construction credits that represent tradable edification rights -, directed to those that pursuit certain kinds of urban operations that refer, namely, to (i) repopulation concerns; (ii) rehabilitation of buildings (iii) restoration of heritage buildings; (iv) integration within the municipal domain of municipal land parcels aimed at green spaces; (v) demolition of existent buildings in urban spaces or spaces aimed at consolidation; (vi) promotion of buildings, infrastructures and public spaces energetic efficiency, and integration of bioclinnatic concepts in a more efficient use of resources; and (vii) provision of additional parking in new urban operations with parking shortage.