Zoning Law and Real Estate Regulations
Forming the most critical foundation of real estate development projects, industrial investments, and large-scale construction ventures, Zoning Law is a highly specialized sub-branch of administrative law where the delicate balance between the right to property, public interest, and urban planning principles is established. Our firm provides end-to-end legal consultancy and litigation services to investors, real estate developers, corporations, and property owners—ranging from zoning plan processes and licensing stages to urban transformation and administrative judicial review.
Zoning plan amendments, parceling applications, and building inspection processes carried out before municipalities, the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, and relevant administrative authorities require strict legal oversight between the administration’s discretionary power and the right to property. We effectively defend the rights of our clients—whose investments are disrupted or who suffer grievances due to unlawful administrative acts—before the administrative judiciary.
Our core services in the practice area of Zoning Law include:
- Filing objections within statutory suspension periods against 1/1000 scale Implementation Zoning Plan and 1/5000 scale Master Zoning Plan amendments, and initiating annulment actions before Administrative Courts.
- Resolving property disputes and filing annulment lawsuits arising from applications under Article 18 of the Zoning Law (parceling plans, readjustment of boundaries, and common participation shares).
- Conducting administrative lawsuits with requests for a stay of execution against license revocations, construction suspension minutes (unlawful construction determinations), and demolition decisions issued by municipalities.
- Legal management of risky building determinations, urban transformation projects, condominium owner disputes, and evacuation processes within the scope of Law No. 6306 on the Transformation of Areas Under Disaster Risk.
- Following expropriation, de facto expropriation, and compensation increase lawsuits faced by property owners due to public investments or administrative actions.
- Resolving administrative disputes arising from zoning status disputes, construction levels, floor area ratio (FAR/KAKS), and building coverage ratio (BCR/TAKS) calculations.
- Regulatory compliance audits (Due Diligence) under zoning legislation for industrial facility projects to be carried out in Organized Industrial Zones (OIZ) and industrial zones.