Spatial Planning Act Article 25

Having accepted a land use permit application and confirmed that the application meets the pertinent requirements, the competent authority of a municipality or county (city) shall publicly exhibit for 30 days the submitted documents and plans at the office of the township (town, city, district) that has jurisdiction over the location with which the application is concerned; this competent authority shall also hold public hearings before reviewing the application. However, documents and plans that are submitted with applications to be reviewed by the central competent authority, as specified in Paragraph 3 of the preceding article, shall be publicly exhibited for 30 days and public hearings shall be held after the applications have been confirmed as meeting the corresponding requirements and forwarded to the central competent authority by the competent authorities of the relevant municipalities or counties (cities).The time, location and procedure of each public hearing, referred to in the preceding paragraph, shall be posted on the Internet as well as in government gazettes, newspapers or through other appropriate channels for public access. The owners of the land referred to in the land use permit application shall also be notified in writing unless the public hearing has already been held under other regulations and relevant information has already been posted on the Internet for public access, with the landowners already notified in writing thereof.During the public exhibition period, private individuals and groups may present opinions to the competent authority, providing their names or titles and addresses. The competent authority shall compile such opinions within 30 days of the end of the public exhibition period and present them with the application and submitted documents and plans for review.The central competent authority shall establish the regulations regarding the procedures for the public exhibition and public hearings, referred to in the three preceding paragraphs, as well as the procedure for dealing with opinions from private individuals.