Vorrang für die Windenergie in der Regionalplanung journal article Susan Grotefels Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 22 (2024), Issue 1, Page 58 - 69 The comprehensive legal changes to planning, environmental and energy law in recent times, in particular the so-called 2 % area target for the nationwide expansion of wind energy, have led to a significant paradigm shift for the regional planning control of wind energy. Regional planning is particularly well suited to the responsible management of wind energy expansion. The application and interpretation of the Wind Energy Area Requirements Act and special building regulations pose major challenges for planning authorities. Planning practice will show whether the positive planning for the designation of wind energy areas, when weighed against the priority given to renewable energies and the suppression of nature and species protection, will prove to accelerate the expansion of wind energy, but will also prove to be sufficiently legally secure.
Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensverhältnisse durch Raumordnung? journal article Susan Grotefels Zeitschrift für Europäisches Umwelt- und Planungsrecht, Volume 18 (2020), Issue 3, Page 291 - 304 The equivalence of living conditions, which is the aim of the guiding principle of sustainable spatial development (Section 1 (2) ROG), is still of central importance for spatial planning today. It is substantiated by principles of spatial planning and is implemented in particular in the spatial planning plans. Equal living conditions are to be interpreted in a way that is specific to spatial planning. Constitutional and European law only play a subordinate role in this context. In order to be effective, there is an urgent need for a contemporary development of their understanding and the instruments implementing them.
Ausnahmen und Abweichungen von Zielen der Raumordnung – Effektive Instrumente eines neuen „Deutschlandtempos“? Martin Beckmann
