Peer review of the 2025 Draft Planning and Zoning By-law for the City of Amman, Jordan
This peer review assesses the Draft Planning and Zoning By-law for the City of Amman, focusing on six key areas including municipal powers, legal clarity, procedural design, and public engagement. The report finds the Draft a positive step toward modernising urban planning but highlights concerns around implementation capacity, limited public and council involvement.
This peer review is available in both English and Arabic - download below.
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Sandra Hiari et al Peer review 2025 (English).pdf
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Sandra Hiari et al Peer review 2025 (Arabic).pdf
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This report is a peer review for the Draft Planning and Zoning By-law for the City of Amman.
The Draft By-law outlines the powers of the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) over planning and zoning matters in the city of Amman. The peer review is organised around six main discussion points:
- The functions and powers outlined in the regulation pertinent to the executive municipal body (including key individuals) and the electorate.
- The extent to which the suggested regulation provides legal replacement for articles in the currently active by-law.
- The nature of procedures for preparing plans.
- The extent to which definitions included in the by-law are covering all key terms.
- The organisation and sequencing of articles to ensure similar topics are clustered together.
- Specific recommendations regarding the six main discussion points are outlined in detail in the following report.