Many rural communes are currently affected by the problem of unfavorable spatial and structural changes which manifests in chaotic building development and increase of unprofitable phenomena in agricultural productive space. The aim of the paper is to analyze spatial development of the chosen commune in conditions of south-eastern Poland and the way of its management in case of possession or lack of a local plan and a program of rural management works. The Subcarpathian Nozdrzec commune was used as a sample of the research. Performed analyses show that the surveyed commune has got numerous problems in the range of building structure, agricultural productive space development and landscape changes. The significant result of the analyses establishes that part of local plans did not guarantee proper building development and did not include decisions concerning agricultural productive space development at all. The commune also did not execute programs of rural management works which enable solving numerous problems of structural and spatial character. These problems also make possible to carry out many goals, including the equalization of developmental chances of rural areas in regard to urban ones.