{"id":8985,"date":"2017-07-16T23:05:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-17T05:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creel.mx\/en\/?post_type=cltvo_publicaciones&p=2768"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T00:00:25","slug":"real-estate-december-13th-2016-en","status":"publish","type":"cltvo_publicaciones","link":"https:\/\/www.creel.mx\/en\/publications\/real-estate-december-13th-2016-en\/","title":{"rendered":"New General Law on Human Settlements, Territorial Planning and Urban Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 28, 2016 the General Human Settlements, Land Use Planning and Urban Development Law (Ley General de Asentamientos Humanos, Ordenamiento Territorial y Desarrollo Urbano) (hereinafter referred to as the \u201cLaw\u201d) was published in the Federal Official Gazette and which came into force the day following of its publication.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of the Law is to establish the coordination of the Federation, States, Municipalities and other territorial demarcations, in order to manage land uses and human settlements and fulfill the State obligations to promote, respect, protect and guarantee them.<\/p>\n

The Law establishes, among other things, the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Regarding actions, projects, or works that are located in \u201chigh risk\u201d zones according to the applicable urban development plans or programs and land use plans, prior to granting licenses concerning land use and constructions, as well as feasibility and any other urbanistic authorization, the authorities will request a risk prevention study<\/strong> in order to identify that the appropriate mitigation measures have been conducted. Nonetheless, in the absence of explicit regulation, the following works and facilities must comply with risk prevention studies:
    I. Port and airport infrastructure and general communication routes;
    II. Pipelines and highways, as well as hydraulic and energy infrastructure networks;
    III. Facilities in which hazardous waste is treated, confined, eliminated or disposed of;
    IV. The public property equipment where health, education, security, transport and supply services are provided; and
    V. Facilities in which fuels are stored, confined, distributed, retailed or transformed.<\/li>\n
  2. When a given site or piece of land is located in a territorial reserved area, the Federation, States, Municipalities and other territorial demarcations, will have, in terms of the corresponding federal and local laws, the preferential right to acquire such site or land<\/strong>, in order to use it for the creation of public space.<\/li>\n
  3. For the execution of urban development plans or programs, the States, Municipalities and other territorial demarcations, may promote among owners and investors the integration of the property<\/strong> required through the regrouping of the land<\/strong>. Once such an urbanistic action is executed, the owners and investors will proceed to recover their corresponding proportional share, either in land, edifices or in cash, according to the agreements executed for that purpose.<\/li>\n
  4. The acts, covenants and agreements relating to the property or any other right related with the use of areas and lands will be subject to annulment when they:\n

    I. Contravene the provisions established on the urban development plans or programs in any of their varieties, as well as the established land use, reserves or assignments;
    II. Do not contain the provisions related with the authorizations, licenses, or permits for the urbanistic action that proceeds, and
    III. Execute legal acts of ownership transfer in violation of the preferential right mentioned by the Law.<\/p>\n

    Such an annulment will be declared by the competent authorities. The aforementioned annulment may be requested by the law enforcement instance through the execution of a popular claim or through the administrative procedures regulated in the local legislation.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  5. The entries in the public registry of property, as well as the cadastral certificates, must specify in their content, the precise data of the zoning, limitations, restrictions and land use rules contained on the development plans or programs that apply to the real estate property.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Mexico City, December 13, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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