The Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs prepared a study of urban development priorities for 531 cities in all regions of the Kingdom, with the aim of unifying the year of adoption of information related to urban development across the country in all cities, utilizing the results of these studies when developing five-year plans, and establishing the necessary mechanisms to follow up the implementation of the urban development priorities program for Saudi cities for public services and facilities to achieve the direction of urban development in its optimal path.

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Urban Development Data

In order to expand the database, the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs is currently working on preparing a database of urban development priorities within the framework of the comprehensive information base for spatial development management, where a working team was assigned to carry out field visits to all cities of the Kingdom to present the study related to the boundaries of neighborhoods for each city, and prepare tables of city neighborhoods showing their priorities, public services and facilities needs, which contribute to the fair distribution of budgets annually, in order to achieve development goals such as investment guidance and coordination between public facilities and services and urban organization sectors.

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Project Coordination

The urban development priorities studies are an example of the efforts of the Ministry of Municipalities represented by the General Department of Project Coordination in light of the Council of Ministers' decision that various government agencies and public institutions, in coordination with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, develop the necessary executive programs for development within the stages of the urban scope according to the actual needs of the cities, in order to face the issues resulting from the rapid urban boom, represented in the randomness of urban growth and the great disparity in the distribution rates of public facilities and services in city neighborhoods, the priorities method was invented locally through an expert.

Public and private lands

In line with the reviewing the allocation sites of government and citizens' lands with planning issues and verifying them with the boundaries and stages of the urban range, the Ministry succeeded in training a group of municipalities and secretariats employees to use the CDs and hard disks of the executive maps of the urban range. The Ministry affirms its endeavor to achieve integrated coordination between planning levels and public utility projects, increase the efficiency of spending, schedule the implementation of projects and develop the efficiency of local technical and administrative bodies. The Ministry's Town Planning Agency has drafted a national development strategy that seeks to achieve the welfare and progress of the citizen by allocating available financial resources between different development sectors and public utilities.