Tag: urban planning
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A civil engineer submitting a residential layout for approval in Lekki, Lagos, finds that the site sits inside a floodplain the 2015 zoning map never flagged. The stormwater drain downstream was sized for half of today’s built density, and every extra square metre of paved surface pushes runoff past its design capacity. This is not…
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A developer in Dubai submits a mixed-use tower for approval and the plan bounces back twice — first for a setback miscalculation against the road reserve, then for a drainage strategy that ignores an adjacent stormwater easement. Neither issue was a design flaw. Both were checklist failures. An urban planning checklist exists precisely to catch…