Environmental Impacts of Municipal Land-use Planning

-154- English Abstract The thesis describes and analyzes municipal land-use planning from the perspective of municipalities, following the adoption of a new Spatial Planning Act and its extensive amendment effective from January 1, 2013. The land-use plan is the most important tool of special planning from municipal perspective. However, the land-use plan is not the only spatial planning tool. Governmental and regional spatial plans are superior instruments, concept plans and locational plans are inferior to land-use plan. Land-use plans are strongly linked to environmental protection. Three levels of the protection can be found in land-use planning procedure. The first one is the involvement of environmental authorities as respective authority. The respective authority issues an opinion. The opinions are binding, with some exceptions, and land- use plan preparatory needs to find out mutual compromise within them to be able to issue the land-use plan. The second level is an assessment of impacts on sustainable development. Land-use planning is about to find compromise between the pillars of assessment of impacts on sustainable development, i.e. development environmental protection, economic development and social development. The environment protection is a fundamental pillar of the land-use plans. Finally,..