Abstract

GOMEZ MACFARLAND, Carla Angélica. The municipal development planning in Mexico and the citizen participation. A legal framework analysis. Bol. Mex. Der. Comp. [online]. 2017, vol.50, n.150, pp.1149-1177. ISSN 2448-4873.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484873e.2017.150.11836.

This paper addresses the issue of quality of the legal rule in relation with the updated knowledge of the subject that regulates, specifically on development planning of municipalities in Mexico. This article studies concepts and methodologies of strategic and participatory planning on municipal development planning, and it presents the characteristics of a legal standard of quality. Also, this paper presents a review of the constitutional text in democratic and strategic planning and in the Planning Act. Subsequently, it presents analysis of local political constitutions, organic municipal laws, the laws of citizen participation and planning laws at local level where it is analyzed whether the constitutional and legal text clearly indicates the planning methodology and whether encourages the citizen to participate on it, to know if there is sufficient quality in the legal framework. Lastly, the closing comments present the areas of opportunity detected in the analysis of the legal framework.

Keywords : legal framework quality; development planning; strategic methodology; citizen participation.