O PDDM de Amélia Rodrigues/BA: análise do Planejamento Urbano Municipal

Abstract

The Comprehensive Plan (henceforth CP) is the main urban law of most of Brazilian towns and in 2001 it became an obligatory law by means of another law known as The City Statute, it is a regulation of a chapter of the Federal Constitution. This law makes mandatory the CP, among other criteria for cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, and is considered by many authors a milestone for Brazilian urban planning, however this policy has been the subject of many criticisms due to their urbanizing nature, different from the reality of most small municipalities in the country . In compliance with the legal obligation to prepare the CP the city of Amélia Rodrigues approved in 2006 its CP, called PDDM – Plano Diretor de Desenvolvimento Municipal, which became the first urban law of the city and should be used to combat urban problems and guide the government in planning its territory, however even going nearly a decade of the approval of the PDDM, urban problems related to democratic city management, land use, urban expansion, land irregularities, among others continue to plague the city. The PDDM from 2006 has been shown unable to confront the interests of local economic elites, especially the mill owners and farmers of sugarcane, so it has little helped to overcoming the property and bureaucratic vices present in public administration, which has threatened traditional settlements. The district of Mata da Aliança and rural settlements settled on the lands of sugarcane farms owners are the localities that have most suffered because of ineffectiveness of Amélia Rodrigues PDDM, what allows the non fulfillment of the social function of land property, which has also threatened an important cultural, historic, artistic, landscaping and archeological heritage.