City region

A Plus Regio (also city region, Dutch: Stadsregio ) is an association of Dutch municipalities in a more urban area. Your statutory certain main task is to tune in to regional issues, such as in the improvement of transport planning or the development of the settlement structure and define as optimal conditions for the population.

Historical Development

From 1990, there was the idea to make the city provinces in the Netherlands. The legal prerequisites for this were indeed created, but it is never before come to the formation of such a city province. (: Kaderwet Bestuur in Verandering Dutch) replaced the law that communities in urban agglomerations opened up the possibility of separating from their province to form their own city Province, was a new law for the regulation of cooperation in so-called Plus Regios.

Register

The Dutch Ministry of the Interior shall keep a register in which the plus Regios are listed with the municipalities belonging to them. This register is also tracked, in which Regio Plus which municipal ( and municipal ) tasks are performed by the respective regions Plus.

Administrative unit

The Regio Plus adds another administrative unit in the Netherlands. It is located between the province and the municipality level. But it is not to be compared with a German district or county.

The fact that the members who are appointed to the Council a plus Regio, are not elected by the citizens, is considered in terms of democracy as a major drawback.

Survey

On 1 January 2006, the Plus Regios were introduced around the following cities:

With the publication in the Government Gazette on 23 March 2006, the Parkstad Limburg was determined to be an official Plus Regio.

Plus this Regios in 2007 were more than 100 communities.

• Geography (Netherlands)
• List ( administrative units )
• Policy ( Netherlands)
• Urban-rural organization
• Urban planning (Netherlands)
• Plus Regio (Netherlands)