Functional Zoning as an Organisational and Economic Mechanism of Optimisation of the Use of Land in Suburbs of a Megapolis

The article justifies a necessity of improving the organisational and economic mechanism of development of the use of suburb land under conditions of the market transformation of economy. It considers specific features of application of an organisational and economic mechanism of functional zoning of the suburb and its advantages if compared with the mechanism of the target use. Zoning is identified as allocation of homogeneous territorial zones, where certain types of land use are limited either with direct prohibitions and orders or with increased tax rates, and so on. The article analyses and generalises principles of organisational and economic mechanism of formation and use of the natural resources potential of a territory. A special attention is paid to the market aspects of the problem of functional zoning. The article describes possibilities of functional zoning using example of one of the suburbs of the Kyiv megapolis, in the result of which it develops requirements with respect to allowable types of use of land lots within the allocated zones.