UDC 332.14:352/354-1
Zhuk, P. V. (2015). Metodychni pidkhody do modelyuvannya terytorial'nykh hromad bazovoho rivnya u protsesi administratyvno-terytorial'noyi reformy v Ukrayini [Methodical approaches to the modeling of basic level territorial communities in the course of administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine]. Rehional'na ekonomika - Regional Economy, 76(2), 5-13. [in Ukrainian].
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The issues of preparation to conducting the administrative and territorial reform in Ukraine and its regulatory and legislative maintenance are outlined. Considering the need to reform the current system of administrative and territorial units (ATU) the methodical approaches to territorial communities modeling as more capable administrative and territorial units of the basis level with the higher capacity to implement the tasks of local self-governance are proposed. They are suggested to be formed through combining existing low capacity village, town and city councils into more powerful territorial communities. Herewith the following important factors are stressed: economic, infrastructural, administrative and regulatory, natural and geographical, demographic and historical. The criteria to be considered in the course of territorial communities modeling and the sequence of actions to be taken while modeling are defined. The sequence of actions stipulates following steps: determining the level of existing administrative and territorial units economic potential through evaluation of tax revenues to local budgets, selection of the ATU with higher economic capacity to be the basic ones for combining; determining of adjacent ATU with the settlements located as a rule in the zone of 15-20-minutes of transport availability to the center of the basis ATU that are reasonable to be combined with the basis one; conducting the analysis of road network, of natural obstacles, of infrastructural objects and administrative buildings availability as well as of other data bound to influence the forming of territorial communities as administrative and territorial units; defining of advisable territorial composition of the newly created ATU of the basis level taking into account the abovementioned steps; preparing of relevant maps with ATU delimitation and information summaries on the newly created territorial communities.

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administrative and territorial reform, administrative and territorial units, territorial communities, modeling