Popular participation and master plan’s review: guarantee of a proper performance from the municipal manager

Abstract

The every ten years reviey of the municipal master plan is due a legal provision in the City Statute. This procedure implies minimal intervention of the municipal manager, who inaugurates the process of revision and conducts its processing, making available to the community, for evaluation and voting, the proposals for changes to be implemented. The administrative discretion is limited to the conduct of the instead of to the merits of the review. The review itself will be the result of decisions arising out of public hearings and, mainly, from popular participation. Therefore, it is indispensable to make available to society, in a clear and complete manner, all the communication tools necessary for the assessment of the technical data that would justify the change of the master plan and the comparison of what is intended to change with the already existing norms.  Any different leading implies in dishonest acting, witch is doomable, since in the urban relation the citizen is the main actor of the revision and the main recipient of the norm.