Abstract:
The paper aims to give an insight upon the main issues concerning the implementation of the regulatory plans with a special focus in the municipality of Prishtina and develops the basis for a framework that enhances the role of the public administration and the effectiveness of the future revisions or compilation of the new regulatory plans.Different from the 90', the Law on Spatial Planning No. 2003 / 14 regulates the Municipality Planning on three levels:(1) Municipal Development Plan (2) Urban Development Plan; (3) Urban Regulatory PlansIn the case of the Municipality of Prishtina, in the lack of the first two, the Urban Regulatory Plans are being developed relying exclusively on the guidelines presented by the Strategic Plan 2004 and the system that the working companies choose to acquire.The Municipality has made a call for the development of total 19 (nineteen) regulatory plans so far, 14 of which have been already approved facing evident difficulties into being implemented by the administration.This paper reasons upon two main points as important issues in this manner:- The present and potential role of the Public Administration on the nature of the regulatory plans.- And secondly Relation between the acquired standards and the urban reality in the city.This has been done through a deeper analysis of the current situation of two study cases located in the city center in order to understand the results of the materialization of the Regulatory Plans, the advantages and disadvantages of the applied strategies.