Agence Urbaine de Khémisset

Urban Agency of Khémisset

Definition

Information Note

Urban Planning Documents under Study

Approved Urban Planning Documents

Specific Studies

Urban Development Master Plan

Zoning Plan

Development (Planning) Plan

Development Plan

Urban planning makes it possible to anticipate, frame, guide and control the growth of urban and rural agglomerations through the development of urban planning documents, namely the master plan for urban development, the development plan, the zoning plan and the development plan for rural agglomerations.

Furthermore, the Urban Agency of Khémisset is making every effort to ensure the full coverage of its territorial jurisdiction with urban planning documents.

Commune	Document title	Progress status
Sidi Allal El Bahraoui	PA	Launched on 09-12-2022
Oulmes	PA	Sent for public inquiry and municipal deliberations on 11/10/2022
Ain Johra Sidi Boukhalkhal	PA	Sent for approval 09/12/2022
Tiflet	PA	Sent for approval 09/12/2022
Brachoua	PA	Provincial Technical Committee held on 19/01/2023
Moulay Driss Aghbal	PDAR	Sent for public inquiry and municipal deliberations on 05-01-2023
Jemaa Moul Bled	PDAR	Launched on 30/12/2021
Ait Ouribel	PA	Launched on 27/12/2022

Commune	Document title	Homologation Decree	Official Bulletin
Sidi Allal El Bahraoui	PA	No. 2.11.457 dated 17 August 2011	No. 5974 dated 01 September 2011
Oulmes	PA	No. 2.11.422 dated 17 August 2011	No. 5974 dated 01 September 2011
Ain Johra Sidi Boukhalkhal	PA	No. 2.13.68 dated 26 February 2013	No. 6131 dated 04 March 2013
Tiflet	PA	No. 2.13.01 dated 21 January 2013	No. 6124 dated 07 February 2013
Ait Ouribel + Houderrane + Khmiss Sidi Yahya	PAS Dayet Roumi	No. 2.13.802 dated 13 November 2013	No. 6204 dated 14 November 2013
Jemaa Moul Bled	PDAR	Decision No. 14.3776 dated October 22, 2014	No. 6315 dated 08 December 2014
Ait Ouribel	PA	No. 2.15.78 dated 20 February 2015	No. 6344 dated 19 March 2015
Ait Malek	PA	No. 2.15.833 dated 16 November 2015	No. 6415 dated 23 November 2015
Ait Siberne	PA	No. 2.16.026 dated 27 January 2016	No. 6438 dated 11 February 2016
Khémisset	PA	No. 2.16.156 dated 16 March 2016	No. 6450 dated 24 March 2016
Ait Boyahya Hejjama	PA	No. 2.16.256 dated 10 May 2016	No. 6470 dated 02 June 2016
Marchouch	PA	No. 2.16.840 dated 27 December 2016	No. 6533 dated 09 January 2017
Khmiss Sidi Yahya	PA	No. 2.16.843 dated 27 December 2016	No. 6533 dated 09 January 2017
Sidi Abderrezzak	PA	No. 2.16.844 dated 27 December 2016	No. 6533 dated 09 January 2017
Sidi Allal Lamsadder	PA	No. 2.17.43 dated 20 February 2017	No. 6555 dated 27 March 2017
Rommani	PA	No. 2.17.187 dated 6 July 2017	No. 6585 dated 10 July 2017
Ait Mimoun	PDAR	Decision No. 17.527 dated February 21, 2017	No. 6562 dated 20 April 2017
Houderrane	PDAR	Decision No. 16.3582 dated November 16, 2016	No. 6557 dated 03 April 2017
Lghoualem	PDAR	Decision No. 16.3584 dated November 16, 2016	No. 6557 dated 03 April 2017
Genzra	PDAR	Decision No. 16.3583 dated November 16, 2016	No. 6557 dated 03 April 2017
Ait Ichou	PDAR Taliouine	Decision No. 17.598 dated February 21, 2017	No. 6565 dated 01 May 2017
Sfassif	PDAR	Decision No. 17.1868 dated September 18, 2017	No. 6639 dated 15 January 2018
Boukachmir	PDAR	Decision No. 17.1869 dated September 18, 2017	No. 6639 dated 15 January 2018
Brachoua	PDAR Nkhila	Decision No. 17.1870 dated September 18, 2017	No. 6639 dated 15 January 2018
Oulmes	PDAR Tarmilet	Decision No. 17.2006 dated September 18, 2017	No. 6639 dated 15 January 2018
Maaziz	PA	No. 2.18.363 dated 29 May 2018	No. 6682 dated 14 June 2018
Ait Yadine	PA	No. 2.18.364 dated 29 May 2018	No. 6682 dated 14 June 2018
Mejmaa Tolba	PA	No. 2.18.365 dated 29 May 2018	No. 6682 dated 14 June 2018
Ain Sbit	PA	No. 2.18.616 dated 13 August 2018	No. 6703 dated 27 August 2018
Ait Ikkou	PDAR	Decision No. 19.443 dated February 05, 2019	No. 6765 dated 01 April 2019
Tiddas	PA	No. 2.19.451 dated 10 June 2019	No. 6787 dated 17 June 2019
Mqam Tolba	PA	No. 2.19.778 dated 18 September 2019	No. 6816 dated 26 September 2019
Ait Belkacem	PA	No. 2.19.779 dated 18 September 2019	No. 6816 dated 26 September 2019
Ezzhiligua	PDAR	Decision No. 19.1567 dated December 5, 2019	No. 6846 dated 09 January 2020
Tiflet	PA	No. 2.23.29 dated 09 February 2023	No. 7173 dated 27 February 2023
Ain Johra Sidi Boukhalkhal	PA	No. 2.23.30 dated 09 February 2023	No. 7173 dated 27 February 2023

Project	Validation Date
City project of Khémisset	03 October 2013
City project of Tiflet	03 December 2013
City project of Sidi Allal Bahraoui	20 December 2018
Architectural Charter of the city of Khémisset	07 August 2013
Architectural Charter of the city of Tiflet	27 December 2013
Architectural Charter of Oulmes	01 September 2015
Architectural Charter of Sidi Allal Bahraoui	08 October 2018
Urban renewal of the city of Tiflet	24 January 2014
Urban renewal of the city of Khemisset	31 December 2019
Upgrading the urban landscape of the main road axis of the Ait Yadine centre	27 February 2013
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Romani center	08 November 2016
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Ait Yadine center	18 June 2015
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Ain Sbit center	18 September 2018
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Maaziz centre	27 December 2019
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Oulmès center	07 July 2020
Upgrading the urban landscape of the Ezzhiliga centre	27 December 2019
Urban Mobility Plan of the city of Khémisset	02 May 2013
Urban Mobility Plan for the city of Tiflet	22 September 2016
Green Plan of the Oulmes center	17 October 2012
Development of the «Marabout» forest located in the city of Khemisset	31 December 2020
Development of green spaces planned within the restructuring plan of the «Saada Ahfour Maati» district in the city of Khemisset	31 December 2020
The land study of the province	15 March 2012

The urban development master plan applies to a territory whose development must be the subject of a comprehensive study due to the interdependence, on the economic, commercial and social levels, of the various components of this territory.

The urban development master plan plans, for a duration not exceeding 25 years, the general organization of the urban development of the territory to which it applies.

It coordinates the development actions undertaken by all stakeholders, in particular by the State, local authorities, public institutions and bodies benefiting from the financial assistance or participation of these legal persons under public law.

The urban development master plan aims in particular to:

PROCEDURE FOR DRAWING UP THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT MASTER PLAN

The draft SDAU is drawn up at the initiative of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning in cooperation with the communes concerned. With a view to establishing a draft SDAU, public administrations and establishments are required to communicate to the governmental authority in charge of urban planning the documents relating to their projects of national or regional interest to be carried out within the territorial jurisdiction of the projected master plan.

A central committee for monitoring the elaboration of the urban development master plan is established under the chairmanship of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning or its representative, responsible for examining and guiding the studies carried out in the different phases of the elaboration of the said master plan.

The secretariat of the central committee is provided by the department in charge of urban planning.
The committee's agenda is set by its chairman.
The draft master plan, finalized by the central committee, is submitted by the governmental authority in charge of urban planning for the opinion of a local committee composed as follows:

→ The wali, governor of the prefecture or province concerned, chairman.
→ The presidents of the communal councils concerned.
→ The presidents of the professional chambers.

The secretariat of the local committee is provided by the representative of the external services of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning, or by the urban agency, where applicable.

→ The local committee's agenda is set by its chairman.
→ The summary of the work of the local committee, supported by minutes of the said work, must reach the central committee no later than 15 days after the end of the work, for decision. Prior to its approval, the draft master plan for urban development is submitted for examination by the communal councils concerned.
→ The said councils may formulate, within a period of three months from the date on which they were seized, proposals which are studied by the administration in liaison with the communal councils concerned. The proposals of the said councils are transmitted by their president to the governmental authority in charge of urban planning, which studies them.
→ If they fail to make their opinion known within this period, the said councils are deemed to have no proposals to put forward. The SDAU is approved by decree published in the official bulletin.
→ Adopted on the proposal of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning.
→ After the opinion of the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Finance, the Minister in charge of public works and the Minister in charge of agriculture.

CONTENT

The SDAU includes:

→ Graphic documents consisting in particular of land-use maps.
→ a report justifying and explaining the development option indicating the phases of execution of the planned provisions, in particular those for which the concerned zones will be provided with zoning plans, development plans and growth plans.

EFFECTS OF THE SDAU

The State, local authorities, public institutions and legal persons under private law whose capital is fully subscribed by the aforementioned public persons are required to comply with the provisions of the urban development master plan.

No subdivision project or housing group project and no construction project may be authorized in the absence of a development plan or a zoning plan if they are not compatible with the provisions laid down by the urban development master plan concerning the new urbanization zones and the general intended use of land.

Zoning plans, development plans and master plans must comply with the provisions of the urban development master plans.

The zoning plan aims to enable the administration and local authorities to take the conservatory measures necessary for the preparation of the development plan and to preserve the orientations of the urban development master plan.

The urban development master plan plans, for a duration not exceeding 25 years, the general organization of the urban development of the territory to which it applies.

PROCEDURE FOR DRAWING UP THE ZONING PLAN

The draft zoning plan is drawn up at the initiative of the department in charge of urban planning in cooperation with the communes concerned, subject to the powers conferred in this matter on the urban agencies by the legislation in force.

→ The draft zoning plan is submitted, as the case may be, by the department in charge of urban planning or the urban agency for the opinion of a local commission.
→ The summary of the work of the local committee, supported by minutes of the said work, must reach the department in charge of urban planning or the director of the urban agency, as the case may be, no later than 15 days after the end of the work for decision.
→ Prior to its approval, the draft zoning plan is submitted by the governmental authority in charge of urban planning or the director of the urban agency, as the case may be, to the examination of the communal councils.
→ The said councils may formulate, within a period of two months from the date on which they were seized, proposals which are studied by the administration in liaison with the local authorities concerned.
→ If they fail to make their opinion known within this period, the said councils are deemed to have no proposals to put forward.

The proposals of the councils are transmitted by their president to the governmental authority in charge of urban planning, which studies them in consultation with the said councils and in liaison with the urban agency where appropriate.

The zoning plan is approved by order of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning, published in the Official Bulletin.
The zoning plan includes:

→ A graphic document.
→ A regulation defining the rules of land use.

Zoning plans take effect for a maximum period of two years from the date of publication of the approval text.

The development plan is drawn up:

→ for all or part of one of the territories designated in the first paragraph of the first article of Law No. 12-90 aforementioned. However, a development plan may only be established for part of an urban grouping if the said grouping is endowed with a master plan for urban development.
→ for all or part of the territory of one or more rural communes, having a specific vocation such as tourism, industry or mining.

The development plan aims to subject to define all or part of the elements listed below:

→The allocation of the various zones according to the main use to be made of them or the nature of the dominant activities that may be carried out therein, such as residential zone, industrial zone, commercial zone, tourist zone, market-gardening zone, agricultural zone and forest zone;
→The zones in which any construction is prohibited;
→The limits of the road network (roads, squares, car parks) to be preserved, modified or created;
→The limits of public green spaces (woodlands, parks, gardens), playgrounds and various open spaces such as those intended for cultural and folkloric events, to be preserved, modified or created;
→The limits of the spaces intended for sports activities to be created in accordance with the provisions of Article 61 of Law No. 06.87 relating to physical education and sports, promulgated by Dahir No. 1.88.172 of 13 Chaoual 1409 (19 May 1989), and the limits of the same spaces to be preserved or modified;
→Locations reserved for public facilities such as railway equipment and its dependencies, health, cultural and educational facilities, as well as administrative buildings, mosques and cemeteries;
→Locations reserved for collective facilities and installations of general interest whose realisation falls to the private sector, such as commercial centres and leisure centres;
→The neighbourhoods, monuments, historic or archaeological sites, natural sites and zones such as public or private green areas to be protected or enhanced for aesthetic, historical or cultural reasons, and where appropriate the rules applicable to them;
→The rules for land use and the rules applicable to construction, in particular the minimum or maximum heights of the building and of each of its parts, the type of enclosure, the conditions for the siting and orientation of buildings, covered or uncovered car parks, the distances between buildings, the ratio between the buildable area and the total area of the plot, and architectural easements;
→The easements established in the interest of hygiene, traffic, aesthetics, safety and public health, and where appropriate the easements arising from specific legislation;
→The zones to be opened to urbanisation according to a determined periodicity;
→The perimeters of the sectors to be restructured and the sectors to be renovated;
→The zones whose development is subject to a particular legal regime.

PROCEDURE FOR DRAWING UP THE DEVELOPMENT (PLANNING) PLAN

Subject to the powers vested in this matter to urban agencies by the legislation in force, the draft development plan is drawn up at the initiative of the department in charge of urban planning in participation with the communes concerned.

The draft development plan is submitted by the urban agency for the opinion of a local commission.

The summary of the work of the local committee, supported by minutes of the said work, must reach the director of the urban agency no later than 15 days after the end of the work, for decision.

The draft development plan is submitted by the director of the urban agency for examination by the communal councils.

The draft development plan is subject to a one-month public inquiry which takes place concurrently with the examination of the draft by the interested communal council(s).
The purpose of this inquiry is to allow the public to become acquainted with the project and to formulate any observations. The means of publication and publicity are ensured by the president of the communal council before the date of the start of the inquiry.
The president of the communal council is required to publish, prior to the opening of the public inquiry, a notice indicating the dates of opening and closing of the said inquiry and mentioning the deposit of the draft development plan at the seat of the commune.
This notice must be published at eight-day intervals in two daily newspapers authorized to receive legal announcements. It is also posted at the headquarters of the commune. The president of the relevant communal council may, in addition, resort to any other appropriate means of publicity.

Any interested party may, during the period of the public inquiry, examine the draft development plan and record on a register opened for this purpose at the commune's headquarters the observations which they may also send by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the president of the competent communal council. The councils' proposals are transmitted by their president to the governmental authority in charge of urban planning, which studies them in consultation with the said councils and in liaison with the urban agency where applicable.
These proposals must be accompanied by the public inquiry file, including in particular the observations made by the public during the said inquiry and studied by the aforementioned councils.
The development plan is approved by decree issued on the proposal of the governmental authority in charge of urban planning. This decree is published in the Official Bulletin.

CONTENT

The development plan includes:

→ One or more graphic documents
→ A regulation defining the rules of land use, easements and other obligations imposed with a view to achieving an orderly and coherent development, as well as the construction rules applicable to the zone concerned.

The development plan aims in particular to delimit:

→the zones reserved for farmers' housing comprising the installation of agricultural exploitation buildings;
→the zones reserved for non-agricultural type housing, commerce, crafts and industry;
→the zones in which all construction is prohibited;
→the layout of the main traffic routes;
→the sites reserved for public squares, open spaces and plantings;
→the sites reserved for public buildings and services as well as for the facilities of social life and in particular for souks and their annexes.

PROCEDURE FOR DRAWING UP THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

After agreement of the public works and agriculture services, the established project is submitted to the communal council which must give its opinion within one month.

The draft plan is then submitted to an inquiry lasting one month, during which the public may examine it and record their observations. This deposit is announced by notices posted at the headquarters of the local authority concerned.

The rural council is consulted again when observations have been submitted during the inquiry.

This order, approved by the Minister of the Interior, is published in the Official Bulletin and at the headquarters of the local authority.

Development plans take effect for a period of 10 years.

The urban planning information note is an administrative document issued by the urban agency in accordance with the legal provisions in force, at the request of the applicant, within a period of two working days. The urban agency issues to any person who requests it an urban planning information note specifying the use that may be made of a landed property in application of the urban planning documents in force. The said request may emanate from any interested party when the urban planning document is approved. In the absence of such a document, it may emanate only from the owner of the land concerned or from a person who provides the latter's consent or any title justifying the obtaining of this note such as a declarative act of public utility.

To obtain an information note on territorial planning, the following documents must be provided:

Copy of the applicant's national identity card;
Official power of attorney if the applicant is not the owner of the property in the case of an unapproved planning document;

NB:

The urban planning information note is issued by the urban agency within a period not exceeding two working days.
The urban planning information note is issued on the basis of the data provided by the applicant and can in no case attest to their accuracy and is in no case equivalent to an agreement in principle on the realization of any project whatsoever.
The documents to be provided to obtain it are mentioned on the request form.