Urban and Housing National Policy

November 2013

COP19/CMP9United NationsClimate Change ConferenceWarsaw 2013

I. Context: Urban and housing reality in Mexico

II. Urban and housing national policy: Challenges, strategies and instruments

III. Sustainable strategies

IV. Instruments for controlling the growth of urban sprawl

CONTENT

II. Urban and Housing National Policy

The National Urban and Housing Policy plays a crucial role in the National Development Plan 2013-2018

Aim:Providing an adequate scenario for the development of dignified living conditions

Strategies

Migrating into a new model of smart and sustainable urban development which primarily fosters the quality of life for citizens

Responsible reduction of Housing backwardness through improving and retrofitting the existing housing stock as well as promoting means for the acquisition of new dwelling

Improving the mechanisms to coordinate institutions over the three levels of government, to achieve sustainable territorial planning, and boosting the development of regional, urban and metropolitan housing.

Axis: Inclusive Mexico

Approach:Democratizing

productivity

Measures Promoting the efficient use of national territory through

jurisdictional certainty of land, mitigating agricultural land partitioning, arranging urban territory and developing competitive cities.

The National Urban and Housing Policy plays a crucial role in the National Development Plan 2013-2018

II. Urban and Housing National Policy

The target of the new model of urban development consist in elevating the quality of life of Mexican families and consolidating sustainable,

productive and competitive cities

4. Land Management

5. Regional sustainable development and territorial management

Axis

1. New model of urban and metropolitan development

2. Dignified and sustainable housing

3. Sustainable mobility

6. Disaster risk reduction

II. Urban and Housing National Policy

Strategies:

• Consistent Geo-statistic information systems for efficient and integral urban planning

• Peripheral urban contention

• Financing housing with territorial criteria

• Availability of credits and subsidies to prevent urban growth towards inadequate areas

• Establish long term agreements for urban development with government authorities

• Implement certified developments to prevent in uncontrolled sprawl

• Review local development plans to adapt for long term goals

• Restrict new settlements in non-urban and conservation areas as well as boosting new projects to consolidate their current land use

• New program for rescuing public spaces

• New program for urban consolidation and housing rehabilitation

1. New model of urban and metropolitan development

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2. Dignified and sustainable housing

Strategies

• Specific actions in interurban areas in collaboration with government institutions promoting the investment of public resources

• Integration of sustainable technologies in the existing housing

• Actions for optimizing use of available urban land

• Improving life conditions and promoting a culture of neighbor cooperation to preserve existing housing

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3. Sustainable Mobility

Strategies

• Collaboration mechanisms with local authorities to coordinate urban development plans with sustainable urban transport policies.

• Strengthen the technical capacities of local governments to develop guidelines for implementing projects to reduce the use of cars.

• Prioritize public investments towards public transport and non-motorized mobility; over private vehicle infrastructure.

• Producing data to monitor performance of the urban sustainable mobility policy

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4. Land management

Strategies

• Provide incentives for interurban development in underused and abandoned areas coupled with an inclusive market vision

• Promoting state and council agreements to generate local regulatory instruments

• Updating and modernizing urban planning and cadastral records

• Defining regulatory instruments to establish responsibilities and penalizing illegal land use and occupation

• Recovering occupied federal right of way along the cities to be used

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5. Regional sustainable development and territorial management

Strategies

• Complement master plans with sizing tools such for the following aspects:

• Competitively and regional economic development

• Including low income social sector

• Environmental sustainability• Integrated urban and rural

development• Sustainable urban mobility• Creating regional development

agendas

• Creating regional development agendas

• Consolidating regional development planning process

• Creating a new Regional Development National Policy which integrates initiatives for social and economic development

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6. Disaster Risk Reduction

Strategies• Performing a global urban diagnosis to

identify:• Vulnerability • Risk type and frequency• Quantifying and assessing threat

impact in economic, social and environmental terms

• Direct linkage between urban planning and risk prevention policies to avoid settlements in vulnerable areas

• Avoid exercising federal resources in projects located in risk areas

• Engaging the society in the elaboration of threat preventive policies

• Developing efficient alert and evacuation

systems with the local authorities

• Integrate and homogenize regulatory

tools along with civil protection and

environmental authorities

• Strengthen collaboration between three

levels of government

• Promote regulatory modifications to

establish responsibilities for civil servants

and penalties for allowing construction in

unsuitable areas

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