VANDER DE SOUZA LIMA
Abstract:
The accelerated urbanization process in Brazil in the last decades has made some urban problems arise and has made them worse, such as violence and lack of work. In order to minimize such problems, the Federal Constitution of 1988 dedicated a chapter to urban policy, which was regulated by the City Statute, guaranteeing to the citizens the right of the city, the urban land, housing, work and participation in the planning, among others. The urban planning is the basic instrument of the urban development and expansion politics, leading the city government to enforce the social functions of urban private property. However, in order to plan, it is necessary to know the reality about what and to what is planned, so that it becomes feasible and reaches the proposed aims. The instrument that allows us to know this reality is the updated Multifinalitary Territorial Register, which enables the planning agents to detect the problems, support the decision-making and even collect taxes from their jurisdiction. This current study aims to gather information regarding the truthfulness; update and usefulness of the Urban Cadastre in Jataí. As a methodological procedure, a few blocks of the city were selected and visited in order to collect descriptive pieces of information about each of their properties. Then, a crosscheck of information collected in field was carried out and compared to those contained in the documents given by the Department of Real Estate in Jataí. It was found out that the Real Estate Registry of Jataí has only served as the basis for the launch of Property Tax and Urban Planning (property tax - IPTU). However, it was noted that this has not been done effectively, since much of the information contained therein are incorrect or outdated, especially in relation to the built-up area and the characteristics of the buildings, reflecting, thus, in a failure and inefficient taxation, provided by outdated registry and, as a result, incorrect assessment of the properties. It was also highlighted that Jataí does not even have block plans, let alone geographical record. Thus, it's necessary that Jataí updates its Real Estate Registry, not only to correct the information contained therein, but also to implement a Geographic Information System to assist in the management of the register
