Within the framework of the specified activities, the Institute collaborates with representatives of local self-governmental units particularly in the drafting and adoption of spatial plans as well as in other issues connected with physical planning. With the collaboration the training of professional employees of the administrative bodies of municipalities and towns is ensured, the preconditions for the quality planning and development of a space are created, plus the role and significance of a local self-government in the planning, use and protection of an area is strengthened.
During long-term collaboration with local self-governmental units, and with the aim of establishing a uniform level of quality in the drafting of documents of physical planning in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, the Institute has drawn up several instructions and guideline for the drafting of spatial plans. The instructions are intended for the drafters of spatial plans and the local self-governmental units of Primorje-Gorski Kotar County:
Proposal of a method of the classification of marine harbours and surface areas to be used as anchorage and berthing in spatial plans, 6th April 2005. With the aim of using a unique model in the process of drafting spatial plans and drafting of opinions about their compliance with the plan of the wider region, the County Institute for Sustainable Development and Physical Planning has made this proposal of a method of the classification of marine harbours and surface areas to be used as anchorage and berthing in spatial plans. In its drafting an effort was made so that it complies with all the legal standards which regulate this issue, but also so that the present practices and usual methods of the management of marine surfaces are not ignored, but that they are gradually replaced by solutions which planning logic imposes.