Credentials of a supreme governing body of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation when finalizing and approving the projects of settlement master plans

According to Article 25 of the Town-Planning Code of the Russian Federation, the draft of the master plan of a settlement or of an urban district is subject to be coordinated with the supreme government body of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, within the boundaries of which the settlement or the urban district is located, in the following cases: if there is a plan to locate the objects of regional significance within the territory of the settlement or the urban district in accordance with the land-use planning documents of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation; if plots of land forming the land for agricultural purposes are provided to get included into the boundaries of inhabited areas included in the settlement or the urban district in accordance with the mentioned project, or exclusion of plots of land which are planned to deal with as agricultural lands out of these inhabited areas; if specially protected natural areas of regional significance are located on the territory of the settlement or urban district. The relevance of reviewing the master plan in the context of the above-mentioned article of the Town-Planning Code of the Russian Federation is undeniable and the question regarding the legality of the subject matter emerges consistently; in other words, the credentials of a supreme government body of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation are only limited to the following: objects of regional significance placed on the territory of a settlement in accordance with the land-use planning documents of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation; agricultural land included into the boundaries of localities forming a part of a settlement or plots of land that are intended to become agricultural and excluded from the said boundaries; specially protected natural areas of regional significance.