The opportunities of local development that offers the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (CRBV) effective since 1999, can be determined from the analysis of the division and distribution of the public powers object of the present qualitative research. Considering the concept of local development in the context of sustainable development and the decentralization as promoter of local development, an analysis from the CRBV is unfolded, identifying the opportunities that the Magna Carta offers for the local development from the structure of planning organisms of national, state and county levels with parochial and communitarian considerations of the System of National Planning 2001-2007. Some possible references to the legislative frame related and developed from the current constitutional rules to date of the analysis are mentioned. In spite of identifying opportunities of local development, legal gap and without relation of the established by the legal regulation and the implementation of these mechanisms of participation of the citizens in the decision making of the public policies of the State are perceived. Those aspects deserve a space of debate in political and academic contexts of the national scope.