The POT presented last week does not detail the 17 strategic actions (4 plans, 7 programs, 6 projects) nor their sources of financing
SANTO DOMINGO. – The Territorial Planning Plan (POT) of the Verón Punta Cana Tourist Municipal District, presented this July 2026 under Law 368-22, organizes 484.44 square kilometers and divides the territory into seven Territorial Planning Units, each with its own parameters of density, height and land occupation.
It is at this level of detail, which defines what and where can be built, that the plan acquires practical value for the investor, and where it must be examined closely.
However, although the document anticipates that there will be a monitoring system with indicators, means of technical verification, shared governance between public and private actors, and periodic reports "with defined financing", it does not specify amounts, sources or timeline.
The plan presented also does not detail the 17 strategic actions announced: four plans, seven programs and six projects that must implement the five objectives of the POT, from environmental management to economic diversification beyond tourism.
Regulations per planning unit (use and building parameters)
| Unit | Strip / Zone | Max occupancy. | Density (inhabitants/ha) | Height |
| Uvero Alto – Macao | 60–120 m from high tide | 10% | 40 | 2 levels (7.5 m) |
| 120–500 m · 1,600–10,000 m² | 30% | 50 | 3 levels (11 m) | |
| 120–500 m · 10,001–400,000 m² | 30% | 80 | 4 levels (14.5 m) | |
| 500 m–boulevard · 1,600–10,000 m² | 30% | 80 | 5+rooftop (20 m) | |
| 500 m–boulevard · 10,001–400,000 m² | 35% | 80–180* | 5+rooftop at 22 levels* (77 m) | |
| Bavarian | Tourist Zone (mixed tourism) | 50% | up to 120 | 4+rooftop (17 m) |
| Friusa (mixed residential, 501–1,000 m²) | 65% | up to 160 | 3 levels (11 m) | |
| Veron | Urban zones A, B and C (< 300 m²) | 55% | 150 | 2 levels (7 m) |
| Urban zones A, B and C (1,001–2,000 m²) | 65% | 260 | 5+rooftop (20 m) |
The maximum of 180 inhabitants/ha and 22 levels (77 m) applies only to the deepest 5% of the plot in the 500 m strip–Uvero Alto–Macao boulevard; the remaining 30% remains at 80 inhabitants/ha and 5 levels + rooftop (20 m).
It can't be wherever and however you want
In Uvero Alto-Macao, a coastal-marine area with a developable reserve, the standard sets the parameters according to the distance to high tide and the size of the plot: from a maximum occupancy of just 10% and two levels in the strip of 60 to 120 meters from the coast, to a maximum of 80-180 inhabitants per hectare and up to 22 levels (77 meters) in large plots located beyond 500 meters, near the boulevard.
That last maximum, however, only applies to the deepest 5% of the site; the rest remains at five levels plus the rooftop.
In Bávaro, the unit with the largest urban land in the district, two regimes coexist: the Tourist Zone, with preferred mixed tourist use (up to 120 inhabitants per hectare and four levels plus rooftop), and Friusa, with preferred mixed residential use, where the permitted density rises to 160 inhabitants per hectare in plots of 501 to 1,000 square meters.
Verón, for its part, concentrates three urban zones (A, B and C) with mixed residential, commercial and tourist uses, and reserves 29.7% of its territory as developable land for future growth.
There, the density ranges between 150 and 260 inhabitants per hectare depending on the size of the plot, with heights of up to five levels plus a rooftop (20 meters) in lots larger than 1,000 square meters.
The technical diagnosis that supports the plan also documents existing land use conflicts that the new regulations will have to resolve.
The most specific is the occupation of 5 square kilometers within the Los Higos mining concession by settlements not contemplated in that land vocation.
Added to this is the occupation of 12.38 square kilometers of protected areas with residential, commercial, tourist and agricultural uses, and 2.77 square kilometers of water body protection strips with tourist and agricultural uses, according to the plan's own territorial diagnosis.
The POT also identifies critical areas due to flood threat in Uvero Alto, the Bávaro Tourist Zone, Cabeza de Toro and El Cortecito, which concentrate 10.57 square kilometers of tourist, residential and commercial uses within risk areas, out of a total of 12.43 square kilometers of the district under flood threat.
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