1. Planning and development of the territories of inhabited localities shall be carried out
on the basis of master plans approved in accordance with the established procedure.
2. Master plans for inhabited localities are a key town planning document that determines
integrated planning of the development of a city, village, rural settlement or other inhabited
locality and is worked out in accordance with the approved general scheme of territorial
planning and integrated scheme of town planning of regions.
Inhabited localities with more than five thousand people shall be provided with current
master plans approved in accordance with the established procedure.
Inhabited localities with up to five thousand people can have an approved scheme of
planning and development of this inhabited locality as a basic town planning document (
simplified version of a master plan). The composition, content, procedure for the
development and approval of schemes for planning and development of small settlements
shall be determined by an authorized body for architecture, town planning and construction.
2-1. The composition and volume of source materials necessary for the development of
master plans shall be established by state regulations.
The initial materials of master plans must be entered into the state urban planning cadastre
before the comprehensive urban planning expertise is carried out in accordance with the rules
for conducting a comprehensive urban planning expertise of urban planning projects at all
levels.
3. The master plan specifies:
1) the main directions of development of the territory of a populated area, including social
, recreational, industrial, transport, engineering infrastructure and placement of a
communications network, taking into account natural and climatic, existing and predicted
demographic and socio-economic conditions;
2) functional zoning and restriction on the use of territories of these zones;
3) the ratio of the built-up and undeveloped territories of an inhabited locality;
4) preferential buffer zones and zones of land acquisition, reserve territories;
5) measures to protect a territory from hazardous (harmful) effects of natural and
man-made phenomena and processes, improve the environmental situation;
5-1) main directions for development of the transport section of a master plan, which
includes an integrated transport scheme, general scheme of the street-road network and
comprehensive scheme for traffic management;
5-2) measures to protect water bodies from pollution, contamination, and depletion;
6) other measures to ensure sustainable development of an inhabited locality.
4. The master plan for development of an inhabited locality with historical town planning
value should be developed with account of a historical and architectural support plan and
along with projects of historical zone development and protection of monuments.
5. The master plan of an inhabited locality shall be valid until the approval of a new
master plan or approval of amendments to a current master plan insofar as it does not
contravene the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Footnote. Article 47 as amended by Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 204 dated
11.12.2006 (shall be enforced from the date of its official publication); by Constitutional Law
of the Republic of Kazakhstan № 121-V dated 03.07.2013 (shall be enforced upon expiry of
ten calendar days after its first official publication); № 195-V dated 17.04.2014 (shall be
enforced upon expiry of six months after its first official publication); № 366-V dated
28.10.2015 (shall go into effect ten days after the day of its first official publication); dated
05.04.2023 № 221-VII (shall be enforced nine months after the date of its first official
publication); dated 21.05.2024 № 86-VIII (shall be enforced upon expiry of sixty calendar
days after the date of its first official publication); dated 09.04.2025 № 179-VIII (shall be
enforced upon expiry of sixty calendar days after the date of its first official publication).