Puerto Rico Planning Board

Puerto Rico Planning Board
Board overview
FormedJune 24, 1975; 49 years ago (1975-06-24)
Jurisdictionexecutive branch
HeadquartersSan Juan, Puerto Rico
Board executive
Parent BoardOffice of the Governor
Key document
Websitewww.jp.pr.gov

The Puerto Rico Planning Board (Spanish: Junta de Planificación) created in the May 12, 1942 during Rexford G. Tugwell's governorship as the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanization, and Zoning Board, is the only government agency in charge of centralized planning under the American flag.[1][2] Its creation was in keeping with Tugwell's New Deal philosophy that Puerto Rico should operate under a highly centralized, all-encompassing territorial government.

For decades, the Planning Board was in charge of all economic planning, land use zoning and case-by-case permitting in Puerto Rico. In the 1970s the permitting process was delegated to another government agency, the Rules and Permits Administration (ARPE) and since the late 1990s, major cities have been taking over that role in their own jurisdictions.

  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2012-11-26.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Historia -" [History] (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-06-08.