P.R. Laws tit. 21, § 4605
(1) The Territorial Ordinance Plan shall require an area plan to regulate land use in areas that require special attention, and to program rehabilitation projects in the urban centers.
(2) Every area plan shall require:
(a) A document of the inventory, diagnosis, and recommendations and a statement of the goals and objectives of the Plan.
(b) The program of works to achieve the goals and objectives, including as an obligation in the case of the area plans for urban centers, and as an option with respect to other area plans, an Investment Projects Program certified by the corresponding public agencies.
(c) Drafting of regulations and ordinance plans.— The regulations for the urban center area plans shall provide for the protection of structures, squares, streets and other components of the urban center according to their type and shall attend, among other factors, to use land [sic], the intervening levels of the structure, restoring and restructuring of real properties, new construction, business or professional office construction, open spaces, and vegetation, routing, accessing and parking areas, works and installations in the infrastructure and equipment of the public roads, and the procedures for permits. The substantive and procedural provisions of the new competencies to make the territorial ordinance used in the ordinance plans feasible, shall be part of the Regulations and Ordinance Plans.
(3) In addition to the area plans for the urban centers several types of area plans for the municipality may be developed, among which the following may be found:
(a) Area plan for urban areas of special architectural value.
(b) Area [plan] for the protection of natural areas as well as for areas of agricultural value.
(c) Area plan for internal reform of urban areas.
(d) Area plan to urbanize extensive uncultivated land on urban soil.
(e) Area plan for the ordinance of isolated settlements.
(f) Area plan for settlements located in areas prone to natural disasters such as areas susceptible to floods or landslides.
(4) The regulations of the urban centers area plans approved in this section, exclude the application of Planning Regulation No. 5, “Historic Zones and Sites Regulation”, and shall be negotiated by the corresponding municipal offices.
(5) No area plan may be drafted to convert rustic land into an urban or urbanized land, said action shall require a revision of the Territorial Plan.
History —Aug. 30, 1991, No. 81, § 13.007; Oct. 29, 1992, No. 84 § 64; Aug. 29, 2002, No. 212, § 3.