They are currently at the discretion of local planning authorities.
Zoning is the province of local planning boards.
Decentralization in Africa has often failed, despite promising discourses, because of the overcentralization of resources, limited transfers to subnational governments, a weak local revenue base, lack of local planning capacity, limited changes in legislation and regulations, and the absence of meaningful local political process (Robinson 2007).
Such projects may be included in a range of local plans, including small-area plans, comprehensive transportation plans, and bicycle and pedestrian master plans.
This allows for assembly of a district or national plan, made up from a representative sample of local plans.
"The problem is that people live right next to the airport because of poor local planning decisions".
Special favors are being granted for oil and gas leasing, uncontrolled recreation, road building and other development in places that were previously set aside because of local citizen plans and land-use designations.
Though the stadium can seat up to 25,000 people, the club is restricted to just 10,000 because of county and local planning regulations.
This is because the issue relates to a development which could in the opinion of the local planning authority, have an adverse effect or impact on the locality of the area in question.
The incinerator has bypassed the local planning process because of the project's size, councillors having already rejected several similar and smaller proposals.
