MASTER PLAN:

A Master plan is a comprehensive long-term perspective plan

intended for guiding the sustainable planned development of city.
INTRODUCTION:

• It creates a vision that is supported by policies, guidelines and priorities.

• It is a policy-based document, it does not, nor can regulate land use.
• lays down the planning guidelines, policies, development code and space
requirements for various socio-economic activities supporting city
population during plan period.
• It is based on
• public input,
• surveys,
• planning initiatives,
• existing development,
• physical characteristics, &
• socio-economic conditions.

FUNCTION:

• To guide development of a city is an orderly manner so as to improve the

quality of life of the people
• Organize and coordinate the complex relationships between urban land
uses
• Chart a course for growth and change, be responsive to change and
maintain its validity over time and space, and be subject to continual
review
• It includes analysis, recommendations, and proposals for:
• population,
• economy,
• housing,
• transportation,
• community facilities, &
• land use.
• It is the basis for all infrastructure requirements.
• Direct the physical development of the city in relation to its social and
economic characteristics based on comprehensive surveys and studies on
the present status and the future growth prospects; and
• Provide a resource mobilization plan for the proposed development works.
 3. LAND USE:

• Land use refers to the manner of utilization of land, including its

allocation, development and management.

Why Land Use Plan?

• Municipal governments divide the land into various land uses In order for
an urban area to function effectively and to meet all the needs of citizen.
• It involves the management and modification of natural environment or
wilderness into built environment such as fields, pastures, and settlements.

Objectives
• To promote efficient utilization, acquisition & disposition of land and
ensure the highest and best use of land.
• To direct, harmonize and influence discussions and activities of the private
and public sectors relative to the use and management of lands
• To reconcile land use conflicts and proposals between and among
individuals, private and government entities relative to the present and
future need for the land.
• To promote desirable patterns of land uses to prevent wasteful
development and minimize the cost of public infrastructure and utilities
and other social services
• to preserve areas of ecological, aesthetic, historical and cultural
significance

CLASSIFICATION OF URBAN LAND USE:

• Residential
• Commercial
• Institutional
• Industrial
• Transportation
• Utilities/Facilities
• Open spaces/greens

• Residential
- Low Density: Single-family homes, semi-detached homes, and duplexes
- Medium Density: Town houses, low-rise apartments,
- High Density: High-rise apartments

• Commercial
- Land that is set aside for commercial activities. This includes any land use
that is used for buying, selling, or trading goods and services.
- Category includes all types of wholesale, retail and service activities
serving areas larger than neighbourhoods.
Category includes all types of wholesale, retail and service activities
serving areas larger than neighborhoods. These are :
• Major Central Business Districts in urbanized areas - shopping,
service area with largest dept. and variety stores, specialty, shops,
business and professional services, hotels, theaters, etc.
• Minor Central Business District in less urbanized areas - market as
main feature (types: wholesale market, wet and dry market); mixed use
development.
• Highway Service Centers or Commercial Strips such as highway gas
stations, motel and restaurants-extension of CBD
• Neighborhood Center – local sources of staple and convenience goods
and services; built around supermarket with convenience stores.
• Institutional

• Land that covers the major public and semipublic uses like educational,
cultural, religious, health, protective and government services. It is
occupied by schools, hospitals, government offices, and places of worship.

• Industrial
• Land that is used for industry viz ; Factories, warehouses, power plants,
or places of resource extraction (like mines).
• It includes manufacturing, refining, fabricating, assembly, storage,
parking and other incidental uses including food processing, cottage
industry, sawmills, rice mills, steel mills, chemical processing plants,
etc. Also included are the proposed industrial estates/subdivision

• Transportation
• Land that is used for moving people and goods from one place to another.
• Includes: sidewalks, roads, highways, subways, streetcars, railroad tracks,
freight yards, airports, marinas and any other land that is used for
transportation.

• Open spaces/greens
• Land that is now vacant, or left in a natural state (like a woodlot), or land
that is for recreational use (parks, playgrounds, community centres)
• Parks/Playgrounds and other Recreational Areas the space requirement
may be computed with the use of space standards based on population or
area of the municipality or city
• so called “non-functional open spaces” and includes lands reserved for
greenbelts and buffer zones; and other vacant lands reserved for specific
or functional purposes.
So to summarise, Land Use Planning
• Refers to the rational and correct approach of allocating available land
resources to different land using activities and for different functions
consistent with the overall development vision/goal of a particular city
• refers to a document embodying a set of policies accompanied by maps
and similar illustrations which represent the community desired pattern of
population distribution and a proposal for the future allocation of land to
the various land-using activities

Land-Use Planning Principles

• Evaluate and record unique features.
• Preserve unique cultural or historical features.
• Conserve open space and environmental features.
• Calculate additional charges for altering land.
• Plan for mixed uses in close proximity.
• Plan variety of transportation options.
• Set limits and managed growth patterns.
Encourage development in areas of existing infrastructure

Land Use Map / Mapping

• Land use map is the graphical representation of Land use for a place or
particular in an area.
• It is a convenient visual form of spatial data, their distribution and
relationships
• This is a reduced and simplified model of reality containing geographic
information.
• It is a graphic depiction of all or part of a geographic realm where the
real-world features have been replaced with symbols in their correct
spatial location at a reduced scale
1. Define Master Plan. What are the main objectives and functions of master
plan
2. What do you understand by land uses? How we represent the land use in
map?
3. Explain the major land uses in detail. What are the main objective of land
use plan?
4. Describe the main elements of land use plan
5. Write short notes on
a) Land use planning Principles
b) Reversible land use
c) Irreversible land use
d) Multiple land uses