Physical and Land Use Planning (Development Control for Inter-County Projects) Regulations

AI-assisted research summary: Names these Regulations as the Physical and Land Use Planning (Development Control for Inter-County Projects) Regulations.

AI-assisted research summary: Provides definitions for “Inter-County Project”, “Joint Committee”, and “reservation of land” used in these Regulations.

AI-assisted research summary: The object of these Regulations is to provide procedures, standards, guidelines and prescribed forms for processing development control applications for inter-county projects under sections 33 and 69 (2).

AI-assisted research summary: Allows appeals from Joint Committee decisions to the National Physical and Land Use Planning Liaison Committee within 14 days; the Liaison Committee must decide applications within 60 days; allows further appeal to the Environment and Land Court within 14 days.

AI-assisted research summary: Sets submission duties for inter-county project proposals: the Joint Committee must submit to the County Executive Committee Member within 21 days of completion; the County Executive Committee Member must within 14 days of receipt submit to County Executive Committees for onward submission to county assemblies; participating Governors must submit to County Assemblies for approval.

AI-assisted research summary: County assemblies must either approve a proposal wholly, approve with amendments, or reject; they and the County Executive Committee Member and Director-General must exchange written notifications and the Director-General must submit or convene and resubmit within specified days.

AI-assisted research summary: The Director-General must, within thirty days of approval of an Inter-County Project Proposal, publish a notice in the Gazette and in at least two national newspapers and electronic media specifying where and when the proposal will be available for public inspection.

AI-assisted research summary: Governors of the relevant counties must convene to consider and adopt the inter-county project proposal at a meeting organized by the Joint Committee; the approved proposal must be deposited with the County Director of Physical and Land Use Planning who must submit certified copies to the Director-General and the Commission.

AI-assisted research summary: Relevant ministries, departments, state corporations and county governments must apply to the Commission to reserve public land for inter-county projects; the Commission must register and publish reserved land; aggrieved persons may appeal to the National Liaison Committee; the Cabinet Secretary and County Executive Committee Member may consider reservations before, during or after preparation of inter-county plans.

AI-assisted research summary: When two or more counties want to carry out an inter-county development project they must submit a project proposal and preliminary plans in both paper and electronic form to the Cabinet Secretary; the Cabinet Secretary must, within thirty days of receipt, issue an advisory or convene a meeting with the counties for further consultations.

AI-assisted research summary: Inter-county project proposals must define the project's scope and the geographical area it covers.

AI-assisted research summary: The Joint Committee must publish a notice requesting comments within thirty days and must prepare the inter-county project proposal within ninety days; it must consider received comments within thirty days and may incorporate them; it may extend the comment period by up to thirty days on its own motion.

AI-assisted research summary: The Joint Committee must consult, consider input from the National Security Council, publish, and hold stakeholders' meetings while preparing the inter-county project proposal.

AI-assisted research summary: Interested persons may comment within fourteen days; the Joint Committee must consider comments within twenty-one days after the notice period and may incorporate them into the proposal.

AI-assisted research summary: County Executive Committee Member must ensure approved inter‑county project development permission conditions are enforced within the county's jurisdiction.

AI-assisted research summary: County executive committee members from counties covered by an Inter-County Project must submit a report on project implementation to the Commission and the Cabinet Secretary at least three months before the end of the financial year.