The article highlights the main factors of eco-economic sustainability in construction as well as in choosing indicators of the minimum acceptable level of residential area provision with facilities and elements needed for shaping a full-fledged living environment and devising effective urban development solutions. At the present stage the key priorities in the development of quality urban environment are eco-economic aspects of residential development regulation and codification. The main purpose is creating optimal conditions for integrated development of residential areas and promoting (to some or other degree) the following priorities: the effectiveness of using the urban territory; shaping a salubrious living environment, including due to land improvement and landscaping, creating engineering and transport facilities, community infrastructure, household utilities and amenities, and providing free access to such facilities for low mobility groups; meeting environmental, sanitary and hygienic requirements, fire and pandemic safety requirements; meeting requirements for functional, spatial and planning organization of living environment, mitigation of environmental hazards and preventing the damage to life-support systems. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2018.