the polish landuse planning law also refrains from granting the ministry of infrastructure any direct regulatory powers over local planning beyond national roads nature reserves and the like while the ministry does play an important function in issuing regulations for making local plans these tend to focus on technical rules such as how to calculate the need for public services only a small part of the country is covered by approved municipal physical development plans that are in accordance with the spatial planning and spatial development act which are produced at neighbourhood scale while the share of land covered by these plans in cities with county poioiat status has increased from nearly in to in this leaves a significant share of city land that is not managed by municipal physical development plans table only gdansk is fully covered by municipal physical development plans sleszyhski et al in poland unlike many oecd countries the law does not require the preparation of any overall citywide plan and cities have not adopted this mode as a good practice