Development of legislation on the organization of public authorities in Russian cities

The article analyzes the approaches of the federal legislator to determining the status of a city in the context of territorial and organizational foundations of local government activities in the Russian Federation based on the identification of trends in the development of legislation on the organization of public authority in Russian cities. At the current stage of development, there is a search for an optimal model for organizing a unified system of public authority and determining strategic guidelines for sustainable spatial development, which is reflected in discussions at the level of the expert community and at the level of drafting bills on urban space management. The issue of the structure of public authorities and the delineation of powers acquires new content when forming urban districts with intra-city division and intra-city districts. Based on the experience of organizing and operating urban districts with intra-city division, the problems and prospects of this approach to territorial planning and organizing public authority are identified. The purpose of the work is to identify the optimal approach to the relationship between the balance of public and private interests in organizing public authority in Russian cities and an effective approach to determining the list of “urban issues”. In this aspect, the issue of more effective delineation of powers between different levels of public authority comes to the forefront in order to maintain a unified urban policy in the sphere of ensuring sustainable spatial development of the Russian Federation. The main research methods are comparative legal and formal legal. They were used to analyze and compare regulatory acts and proposed projects. The main results. The author concludes that it is necessary to amend Russian legislation on the organization of public authorities in cities. The effectiveness of urban development depends on many factors, among which the primary ones are clear legal instruments for managing urban space and legal regulation of future socio-economic development based on the use of new technologies of strategic planning at different territorial levels of governance.