Impacts of the amendments on the regulation on zoning for planned spaces of 2013 on the use of floor area ratio (Far)

It is specified, under Article 5 of the Constitution, that the State has the obligation to create conditions necessary for the provision of prosperity, peace and happiness for individuals and society, for the development of human's material and moral existence and, under Article 56, that every individual has the right to live in a healthy and well-balanced environment. It also emphasizes that the State and its citizens have a duty to safeguard such rights. The regulations brought by the zoning legislation are of significant importance in terms of the actualization of such duties assigned to the State. However, all the applicable laws and regulations of our nation are continuously revised for the purpose of fixing the emerging faults and irregularities, rather than projecting the future. In recent years, the Zoning Law has undergone a fundamental and radical change, and by way of parallel, the Regulation on Zoning for Planned Spaces has almost completely been renewed and implemented particularly in 2013. In this study, the amendments on the Regulation on Zoning for Planned Spaces of 2013 are discussed in general and the positive and negative impacts of these actual amendments on the use of floor area ratio and housing rights have been brought into question.