P.R. Laws tit. 23, § 227e
The first stage [in the implementation] of this chapter shall consist of the preparation of a preliminary draft of the Plan that would serve as a tool for discussion. To those effects this stage shall extend to December 31, 2004. The following tasks shall be accomplished during this stage:
(a) The Land-Use Plan Office shall begin operations as established in § 227 of this title.
(b) The Land-Use Plan Office shall adopt a work plan expressing the vision, goals, objectives, scope, tasks entrusted and contents of the Plan.
(c) Any resource to be used by the Land-Use Plan Office shall be consigned in the Planning Board budget.
(d) The Planning Board shall make accessible to the general public through its Internet page the land maps of all Puerto Rico that are available.
(e) The Land-Use Plan Office shall establish early in the process the work teams needed to allow the participation of the citizens.
(f) All agencies, departments, municipalities, corporations and public instrumentalities shall provide the Planning Board through digital means or through direct access to their data banks, the available data or maps whose information shall allow for the long-term planning for the location of agricultural land; the natural resources; the highways, electric power and aqueducts and sewers infrastructure; the natural reserves or high priority conservation areas; the natural risk areas, among others that may be important as established in this chapter. These agencies shall be responsible for updating the information, as required by the applicable laws and regulations, or at the request of the Planning Board.
(g) The Land-Use Plan Office shall conduct the preliminary classification and delimitation of all the land in Puerto Rico, taking into consideration what was established in territorial ordinance plans in effect.
(h) The Planning Board shall prepare, with the collaboration of the government agencies concerned, within a term of six (6) months [following] the date the Plan was adopted, an action program to delimit the buffer zones of the areas of natural, agricultural or cultural value that lack such protection, as well as to increase the existing buffer zones in those cases whereby said modification may be necessary. For the purpose of the present statute, “buffer zone” shall mean the land next to an area of natural, agricultural or cultural value whose function is to protect the integrity or value of said areas from the impact that any activity or use of the adjoining land may cause.
History —Oct. 3, 2004, No. 550, § 8.