The City Statute (article 40, §3) requires that the Master Plan be revised every ten years. This table tracks the decennial cycle in the 20 most relevant municipalities of the state. Filter, sort, and click to access the official source.
Status is calculated by the decennial deadline of article 40, §3 of the City Statute. In force means the last approval is less than 10 years old. Warning marks the final 2 years. Expired covers everything past the date.
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| Municipality | Law | Year of approval | Age (years) | Decennial expiration | Status | Source |
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Age and expiration are computed in real time from the current year. The municipality without its own entry for Itaipava: this is a district of Petrópolis and follows the Petrópolis Master Plan (Law 7.167/2014).
Article 40, §3 of Law 10.257 of 2001, known as the City Statute, determines that the Master Plan law be revised at least every ten years. The provision is mandatory. The municipality does not choose whether to revise it, only when within the decade.
The expiration year, in this dataset, is simply the year of the last approval plus ten. A plan approved in 2014 expires in 2024. A plan approved in 2006 expired in 2016. In-force status means the approval is still within the decade. Expired status means the deadline has passed and the municipality should have published a revision.
Warning status marks the final two years of the decade. It is not a legal requirement, but technical guidance from Arsenic: two years is the observed average time for a participatory revision process, with diagnosis, workshops, hearings, and processing in the Municipal Council. A municipality entering the yellow band should already have the process open.
An expired Master Plan is the first thing to appear in an urbanistic due diligence. A municipality in this condition loses leverage in applications for federal and external financing, because the territorial design has not been recalibrated for the current cycle of climate risk, infrastructure, and demographics. A multilateral bank reads an expired plan as a sign of weakened fiscal and technical capacity.
Without an in-force Master Plan, the municipality is in practice prevented from applying the urbanistic instruments that depend on it: Charge for Additional Building Rights, Mandatory Subdivision, Building, and Use (PEUC), Consorted Urban Operation, Right of First Refusal. These are the tools that allow capture of urban value and reorientation of the growth vector. Without an updated plan, the municipality legislates the city by the ruler of the past decade.
The silent cost is obsolescence. A city that has grown fifty percent since the last approval is being managed by a zoning scheme designed for another scale. Transit corridors that did not exist, geological risks that have intensified, urban voids that became neighborhoods, areas that need to become parks. An outdated Master Plan blocks all of this.
This dataset is maintained by Arsenic Arquitetos as a public tool. If you have updated information with an official source, write to nikola@arsenicarquitetos.com. Send the link to the law published in the municipal Official Gazette or in the Municipal Council system. Updates are processed within fifteen days.
DECENNIAL · 6minFrozen urbanistic instruments and harder federal financing.
ITAIPAVA · 8minDistrict of Petrópolis with a decennial plan expired since 2024.
This table references the City Statute and the Petrópolis Master Plan as examples. Each municipality listed has its own law linked in the source column of the table.
In case of discrepancy between the data in this table and the official municipal publication, the official publication prevails. This dataset is informational and does not replace legal consultation.