DEVELOPMENT OF FLOODLAND AND ADJACENT TO THE FLOODPLAINS TERRITORIES IN THE CONTEXT OF AGLOMERATIVE EVOLUTION OF THE LARGEST CITIES OF THE VOLGA REGION
The article deals with the development of floodplain areas and their interaction with adjacent territories. Floodplains constitute a significant part of undeveloped, but promising for use and transformation territories in cities and agglomerations, which are located on large water bodies that were previously. Today, the existing definitions of floodplain territories reflect only their landscape and geographic sides, the urban planning concept of floodplain territories is not fixed. It is important to define floodplain areas as an urban planning category, to establish special urban planning regulations for them to identify clear boundaries and to provide them with legislative acts at the regional level of the status and protection regime. The research revealed the scientific feasibility of developing large floodplain and adjacent to the floodplains territories complexes in the context of agglomeration development and territorial planning at the regional level. Identifying the interaction and mutual influence of floodplains and areas adjacent to floodplains is a prerequisite for the development of the most successful development strategies, the authors introduce the concept of “adjacent to the floodplain.” Their boundaries are determined taking into account the integrity of the functional and spatial structures on the basis of the existing and projected transport frames, the administrative boundaries of municipalities, the availability of water bodies, the boundaries of forest fund territories, the boundaries of flooded riverside areas, the boundaries of zones of territories with special conditions of use, the boundaries of floodplain areas. Landscape and urban planning zoning are proposed as a basis for the creation of principles for the development and reorganization of floodplain-adjacent to floodplain complexes of agglomerations and urban settlements, the article describes its main and additional criteria.