An experience in communitary urban planning. The case of the Campeche plain – Florianópolis – SC/Brasil

Abstract

This paper reports the socio-communitary construction of a sustainable director plan for the Campeche Plain, designed by the “Movimento Campeche Qualidade de Vida- MCQV” (Life Quality Campeche Movement). MCQV mobilized the civil society against the sustainable director plan put forward by the Municipal Government through a series of actions including the 1º Seminário Comunitário de Planejamento do Campeche (First Communitary Planning Seminar for Campeche), which established, in 1997, guidelines for the sustainable development of the region. The document resulting from this seminar – Dossiê Campeche (the Campeche File) – was sent to public organs (Federal, State and Municipal) in the same year.Two years later, in view of the fact that the proposals and communitary guidelines were disconsidered and in view of the threat of approval of the governmental director plan, highly destructive and unsustainable in hydric terms, the assembled community decided to design its own plan on the basis of the principles presented in the Campeche File. In urban planning itinerary workshops, the community produced the “Plano Comunitário para a Planície do Campeche – proposta para um desenvolvimento sustentável” (Communitary Plan for the Campeche Plain – proposal for a sustainable development), which was handed in to the Câmara de Vereadores de Florianó-polis, in March 2000.