Law-Making Strategies in the Area of Municipal Territorial and Spatial Development: Issues of Harmonization

The paper is dedicated to comprehending the issues surrounding municipal territorial and spatial development in the context of the concept of a law-making strategy. The author defines the latter as a special communicative model of law-making organization, which provides a coherent framework for the construction of the desired future. The author reviews the principal stages of the law-making strategy in their application to municipal territorial development, which the author considers an integral component of spatial development. The thesis that there is a need to harmonize approaches to the municipal territorial organization and the definition of reference settlements during the development of the strategy of spatial development of Russia for the period up to 2030 is substantiated.