¿Son técnicamente viables los planes de uso y gestión de suelo previstos por la ley ecuatoriana de ordenamiento territorial?

Abstract

The Ecuadorian Constitution compels municipalities to elaborate their Territorial and Development Plans– PDOT to regulate the use and occupation of urban and rural land. In this respect and in the frame of the territorial regulation, during the first mid of the present decade, the first instruments were drafted, applied, and updated. In the other hand, in 2016, the Territorial Planning and Land Use Management Organic Law–LOOTUGS created the Land Use Management Plan–PUGS. However, both instruments –PDOT and PUGS–, have resulted in a set of overlaps, creating confusion and uncertainties, specially concerning the way on which PDOT should be updated (according to the law, in a short time). In this sense, this work aims to reduce the inconveniences during the aforementioned updating process, through a proposal to operationalize technically the PUGS, in coherence with the PDOT. It concludes remarking that the developed proposal should be considered transitory due to the LOOTUGS deserves an important reform, observing the recommendations presented in this and other works.