Urban development contracts serve to fulfill urban development tasks. They supplement the sovereign instruments of urban development law. The aim is often to speed up the implementation of urban development projects and private investment projects. From the city's perspective, in many cases the contract serves to remove obstacles resulting from limited financial and human resources by obliging a project developer or landowner to carry out measures at their own expense or to assume the costs incurred by the city.

The law distinguishes between the following contractual objects in Section 11 (1) of the Building Code:

• The preparation and implementation of urban development measures, including the preparation of urban development plans and the construction of development facilities.
• The promotion and safeguarding of the objectives pursued with urban development planning.
• The assumption of costs and other expenses which the city incurs or has incurred for urban development measures and which are a prerequisite or consequence of the planned project.

In addition to the contract types listed in Section 11, the Building Code also recognizes a number of other contracts. These include the implementation contracts for project-related development plans in accordance with Section 12 of the Building Code.

The instrument of the urban development contract is used by the city in numerous cases for the planning and development of new construction areas in cooperation with private property owners and investors.

The contents of the contract must be worked out on a case-by-case basis and mutually agreed between the city and the contractual partner. Agreements are regularly made on

• the provision of urban development planning and the bearing of the associated costs,
• the construction of the public development facilities by the contractual partner in its own name and for its own account and the handover of the constructed facilities to the city free of costs and encumbrances,
• the financing of the municipal expenses for the construction of the public wastewater facilities,
• the payment of follow-up costs for social infrastructure facilities (e.g. day nursery, elementary school), insofar as the additional demand from the construction area cannot be covered by existing facilities and investments are required to cover the demand.

Of course, this information sheet cannot answer all questions relating to urban development contracts. If you have any further questions, please contact the following staff at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt Town Hall in the Department of Contributions, Procurement Service and General Administration: