Citizen Participation in the Regulatory Plan of the Central Station Municipality
Citizen Participation in the Revision of the Municipal Regulatory Plan is established by General Law Nr. 19.472 on Urbanism and Constructions, from 1996, for the case of the Central Station Municipality of Santiago de Chile. This institutional design combines citizen participation with one of the most prominent tools for urban planning in Chile. Citizen participation in this process had as a main objective to present, disseminate and discuss with the community the proposals for city planning and regulations as defined by a team of expert consultants. It was done in order to promote discussions and analyses of the proposals which allowed the authorities to learn the opinions of different stakeholders within the municipality. Finally, according to the town council, this process of citizen participation was created to validate the changes to the territorial order of the municipality that incorporates the plan.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields no decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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