O plano diretor urbanístico e a preservação ambiental no município de Fortaleza

Abstract

It has become increasingly imperative to analyze the environmental repercussions caused by the evident growth of the city of Fortaleza, which influences in a major way the municipal environment´s degradation. This analysis seeks to facilitate the identification, in the municipal sphere, of the best stance to be taken by the Executive and Legislative branches of government, in order to see the environmental degradation issue resolved. In that sense, with the purpose of guaranteeing a balanced development of cities, not just in the environmental sense, the Federal Constitution of 1988, in its article n.182, first paragraph, determines to be mandatory, for cities with more than 20 thousand residents, the creation of a municipal ―Plano Diretor‖, which is a basic instrument in the arenas of developmental policies and urban expansion. In that way, this research project will approach the new ―Plano Diretor‖ of Fortaleza, seeking to analyze what it disposes in reference to the preservation of the environment, as well as its importance in reaching the city´s social progress and the assurance of the social and democratic well-being of the population. Furthermore, in this research there is a case study on the subject of the fixed dunes located in the city´s park ―Parque do Cocó‖, which was defined, by the Law no. 9.502/2009, as an Area of Relevant Ecological Interest - ARIE.