O Plano Diretor do Município de São Felipe e a questão ambiental: uma análise da Barragem da Copioba e Serra da Copioba

Abstract

According to articles 182 and 183 from Brazilian Federal Constitution, the municipalities must perform their social duties, taking in consideration that the city is a space to live well and with quality, by consisting into a patrimony, where stories, habits and social cultures are built. For that to happen, they must present a consistent public management that attends to such social duty, needing, for that, an effective planning. It is understood that the Comprehensive Plan is configured as a law that conducts urban planning, serving as a basis for municipal management. However, most Brazilian cities are unaware of the importance of Comprehensive Plan as a guiding instrument for the ordering of the spaces within cities and their social duties. This research aims to analyze the acts of the public authorities and the municipal Comprehensive Plan on what concerns the environmental issue on the municipality of São Felipe in the timeframe of 2001 to 2012. The absence of an efficient public management on the control and fulfillment of the Law 12.651/2012 of the New Brazilian Forest Code and the guidelines imposed by the PDDU – Plano Diretor Munipal de São Felipe (São Felipe Municipal Comprehensive Plan), Law 005/2007, has been gradually generating acts of aggressions to the environment coming from the absence of an environmental policy and control of irregular human occupation of areas covered by riparian forest. Were covered as research areas Barragem and Serra da Copioba, both located on the countryside of São Felipe – BA. The methodology of the research, a quantitative (survey data) and qualitative (field research), consisted of the development of work in four stages: theoretical and conceptual approach to the related legal and institutional prerogatives regarding the preservation of the environment; physical analysis of the municipality of São Felipe; analysis of the technical report of the Comprehensive Plan of São Felipe / BA and finally, the practices of public administration and Comprehensive Plan for the preservation of the Barragem da Copioba and Serra da Copioba. Through this research, it was verified a rampant environmental damage to lakes, springs, rivers and forests that make the riparian forest at Barragem da Copioba and Serra da Copioba, associated with poor living conditions in environmental areas and the lack of government commitment regarding compliance with the Comprehensive Plan in the municipality of São Felipe / BA.