it mandated that any municipality located within km from the outer limit of an urban agglomeration w ould lose its right to elaborate a land use plan and give building permits if it were not covered by a territorial coherence plan schema de coherence territoriale scot a form of intermunicipal plan whereby municipalities commit themselves to integrated and joint development this rule created a very strong incentive for municipalities to join the scot but it was not enough to limit urban sprawl from persisting writing in a government note on the matter comments that only of the territoiy is currently covered by an enforceable scot and that their coverage is not wcllconnected to areas of population growth moreover industrial and commercial developments have continued to contribute to sprawl