Alterações no Plano Diretor como fator na verticalização em Natal/RN: uma abordagem preliminar

Abstract

Among several factors, changes in urban legislation can significantly interfere with real estate development and, more specifically, with the verticalization process of urban centers. Restrictive or more flexible rules combined with moments of expansion in the real estate market may intensify this phenomenon and its consequences. In the case of the Natal city, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), they were motivated as being associated with three different versions of the Master Plan (1984, 1994, and 2007). Based on real estate production data, it was possible to verify that with each change in legislation there was an expansion of the average number of floors per development, especially in some areas of the city. These analyzes indicated that there was a direct impact of changes in the comprehensive plan on the verticalization of the city, with a significant increase in the average number of floors per development with each change in legislation, an increase that remained relatively constant for the duration of these plans.