Town Planning and Cadastre in Mining Areas. Case Study of the Former Baia Borşa Mining Zone, Maramureş County

Some relationship between the cadastre and urban planning regulations can be detected since the second half of the 19th century, together with the introduction of the stable cadastre in Maramureș County and later in Transylvania. With the introduction of the cadastre, the first functional zoning of the territory of the cadastral localities was also carried out, which involved the cadastral registration of all parcels and the recording of the use categories, together with the delimitation of the intravilan or built area and extravilan lands grouped in fields according to the local toponymy. Both before the First World War and in the interwar period, town planning regulations paid little attention to the cadastre introduced in the second half of the 19th century, which is still in force today. During the communist period, urban planning, called also systematization, had a political purpose, especially in rural localities, when through the systematization sketches, the political authorities aimed to group within the intravilan area as narrow as possible to the advantage of agricultural surrounded areas and to standardize the built environment. Also during this period, delimitations of industrial zones, including mining areas, are introduced, as well as the first urban planning considerations regarding the planned evolution of these areas. In the post-December period, there are some regulations regarding urban planning, made concrete by several laws, especially the Law no. 350/2001 regarding territorial development and urban planning. The general and mining cadastre for mining or former mining areas does not find the place it should occupy in urban planning. The purpose of the paper is to follow through the chosen case study – the case of former Baia Borșa mining area, the particular situation of urbanism-cadastre relationship, with a focus on the relationship between the urbanism of mining areas - mining extractive cadastre. The working hypotheses are described based on the analysis of available working materials: archival documents and General Urban Plans. GIS analysis methods are adopted as work methodology. The results and conclusions will serve as a basis for the formulation of proposals that can be incorporated into future urban planning policies for mining areas.