Municipal Plebiscite of Zapallar
The Municipal Plebiscite of Zapallar was a participatory initiative that took place in 2003 in order to approve or disapprove the construction of urban infrastructure. This entailed a condominium of 168 apartments distributed across ten 4-story buildings, a convention center and a chapel, all of which would be located at an elevation of 180 meters above sea level, on the hillside in the El Boldo neighborhood of said municipality. This initiative arose by decision of the mayor of the locality from the pressure of the inhabitants of Zapallar who positioned themselves against the construction of this project. The specific question was: Do you support the municipal policy on the protection of forests located on the urban border on the coastal edge of the municipality? 78.5% of the local electorate registered "Yes" and 21.5% of the electorate registered "No", giving broad support to the initiative. In total, 2630 voters participated in the initiative.
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 a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- no
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