Land-use Planning Systems in the OECD
Country Fact Sheets
This report provides an overview of spatial and land-use planning systems across the OECD. It contains country fact sheets that focus on formal aspects of planning systems, as they are defined by laws and regulations. The country fact sheets describe the responsibilities of each level of government with respect to spatial and land-use planning. They include a description of all spatial and land-use plans of a country and show their hierarchical relations in a diagram. For most countries, the fact sheets also contain key statistics on land use. A summary chapter provides an overview of the information in the country fact sheets and discusses land value capture tools, land expropriation procedures, reforms of the planning system, and other issues. The information provided in this report was collected through a survey that involved academic experts on planning from all 32 countries covered.
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France
France has four levels of government; the national government, 18 regions, 101 departments, and 35 885 municipalities. The national government is active in landuse governance primarily through its responsibility for the legal framework concerning land-use planning, environmental policy and other policy fields. Furthermore, it plans and finances infrastructure projects of national importance such as motorways and railways as well as facilities such as universities. No national level spatial plan exists in France.
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