Land Use Planning
Refers to the process whereby society, through its institutions, decides where, within its territory, different socioeconomic activities such as agriculture, housing, industry, recreation, and commerce should take place. This includes protecting well-defined areas from development due to environmental, cultural, historical, or similar reasons, and establishing provisions that control the nature of development activities.
These controls determine features such as plot areas, their land consumption or surface ratio, their intensity or floor-area ratio, their density or units of that activity/ people per hectare, the technical standards of the infrastructure and buildings that will serve them and related parking allowances.
Land-use planning is important to mitigate the negative effects of land use and to enhance the efficient use of resources with minimal impact on future generations. The main objective of this planning process is to allocate land uses to meet the needs of people while safeguarding future resources as describe below;-