Critical evaluation of development control measures of Urban Development Authority law in the process of urban land development in Sri Lanka: a case study of some selected towns in the wet zone

Abstract

The term development control measures though more often than not have been interpretted in a negative way athose are the instruments that give effect to the meaning of development by managing any" objects material or otherwise with the environment, when it is a process of a action to achieve its own goal. Hence the concept of development always goes along with the development control measures. The development control measures related to urban land development are two-fold one is derived from macro pol icies such as land requlat ion. Land taxation etc., while the other is derived from micropohcies such as regulating the development activities etc. In Sri Lanka although these two measures are prevai Iing, the latter is more vital for the process of urban land development mainly because it is the measure that usually deals with the larger segment of the community or lands. Thus the study deals with this measure only.