The article covers the study of the oversupply of residential areas in municipalities as well as investment areas located at motorway interchanges. It presents the results of the first stage of the survey for chosen municipalities situated along the A2 motorway, between Łódź and Poznań, and not within reach of large agglomerations. First, the work involved assessment of municipal development strategies, reviewing them for the presence of a motorway node in the analysis of development conditions and assumed course of action. Next, the implementation of the strategy guidelines in studies of spatial development conditions and directions was examined both in the content of the documents and regarding designated investment areas on graphic annexes. The next stage of the study was the analysis of the coverage and spatial distribution of local spatial development plans, along with the determination of the surface of designated investment areas.