Integrated Cross-Sectorial Plan of Tirana-Durres Area

TERRITORIAL LAND USE
REGULATIONS
TR1- Urban centres consolidation
The development of urban centres should
ensure inclusion and equality for each
social stratum, a controlled development
of the territorial and environmental
use, guaranteeing the conditions for a
sustainable development to the current and
future generations.
Municipalities should control urban
development, ensuring the necessary
conditions to provide compact urban
centres, equipped with efficient community
services, and guaranteeing equality of
service for all spaces and territories within
urbanized areas.
Compacting of centres should be based
on the process of urban growth and
development into compact controlled areas
that promote the concentration of mixed
functions, the formation of economies of
scale and densification, fast access support,
mobility and public services efficient for all
social groups.
The development of centres should
be controlled, avoiding the spread of
urbanization using instruments such as
densification, restrictive urban “green lines”
and legal and fiscal incentives for the use
of the territory. These instruments should
be used efficiently in order to guarantee
sustainability and control of urban sprawl in
peripheral (peri-urban) areas, to reduce the
ecological footprint of urban centres and to
use the territory more effectively in these
areas.
The municipalities of the region should
promote and develop urban centres (of all
levels) with a low ecological footprint, by
promoting services within urban areas,
increasing the density in priority areas
such as: regeneration areas, revitalization
areas, central business development
areas, transport-oriented areas. These
centres should promote the creation of a
critical mass, providing the minimum and
maximum density based on mixed-use poles
and development areas. Poles and areas
should be developed in such a way as to
address the needs of communities not only
in housing but also in employment, ensuring
neighbourhoods and residential blocks with
appropriate mixed areas, greenery, services
and recreation.
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