French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceI. - The territorial collectivity of Corsica shall draw up the plan for the sustainable development of Corsica.
The plan shall define a strategy for the sustainable development of the territory by setting objectives for the preservation of the island's environment and its economic, social, cultural and tourist development, which guarantees territorial balance and respects the principles set out in article L. 101-2 of the town planning code.
It sets out the fundamental guidelines for the protection and enhancement of the territory, agricultural, rural and forestry development, fishing and aquaculture, housing, transport of people and goods, logistics, intermodality of infrastructures and communication networks and tourism development.
It sets a trajectory to achieve the absence of any net artificialisation of land as well as, in ten-year increments, a target for reducing the rate of artificialisation. This objective is broken down between the different parts of Corsica's territory.
It defines the resulting spatial planning principles and in particular determines the natural, agricultural and forest areas as well as the sites and landscapes to be protected or preserved, the location of major transport infrastructures and major facilities, the preferred location or the principles for locating urban extensions, industrial, craft, commercial, agricultural, forestry, tourism, cultural and sporting activities.
The general destination of the different parts of the island's territory is the subject of a map, the scale of which is determined by deliberation of the Assembly of Corsica in compliance with the free administration of the communes and the principle of non-tutelage of one local authority over another, and which is specified, where applicable, in the cartographic documents provided for in article L. 4424-10 and in II of l'article L. 4424-11.
The planning and sustainable development plan includes the information provided for articles L. 104-4 and L. 104-5 of the town planning code.
It includes criteria, indicators and procedures enabling the local authority to monitor the application of its provisions and their impact.
II. - Corsica's sustainable planning and development plan takes into account projects of general interest and operations of national interest that meet the conditions set out in Articles L. 102-1 and L. 102-12 of the town planning code and includes, where applicable, the provisions necessary for their realisation.
The Corsican sustainable planning and development plan takes into account natural, health and technological risks. It must be compatible with the objectives and fundamental guidelines of the flood risk management plans provided for in Article L. 566-7 of the Environment Code, where they exist, as well as with the provisions defined in 1° and 3° of the same article.
III. - Territorial coherence schemes and, in the absence of a territorial coherence scheme, local town planning schemes, sector schemes, communal maps or documents in lieu thereof must be compatible with Corsica's sustainable planning and development plan, particularly in the delimitation they make of the areas located within their territory and in the allocation they decide to give them, taking into account respectively the location indicated by the general destination map of the different parts of the island's territory and the vocation assigned to them by the plan.
