§ 15 Spatial Planning and Building Act (RBG) - Settlement Development

1. Municipalities ensure appropriate and needs-based urban development.

2. Municipalities promote inward urban development and dense construction methods, provided that they do not conflict with interests of local image and landscape protection or other superior planning objectives.

3. Dense construction methods must ensure a high quality of settlement and living, as well as good integration into the surrounding landscape and built environment. Dense construction is to be ensured in particular through

a. District plans,

b. Exceptionally unified development plans.

4. Municipalities may designate larger, undeveloped or partially developed areas in the master plan that should only be developed with a district plan in the interest of dense construction.

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