Abstract :The construction of gated communities and activities developed in residential condominiums may have a great pollution potential, particularly if they accommodate a large number of houses. Currently, there is no methodology that can be used to identify and prioritize alternativesin order to minimize environmental impacts, which are specific to gated communities. In the pursuit of studying and thus, identifyingmanagement alternatives, corresponding environmental impacts were grouped accordingly. So, a checklist was developed for in loco verification of the management alternatives for gated communities. A model using a multi-criteria analysis method was developed for the decision-making-more specifically, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Criteria for weight attribution were stipulated to allow ranking the management alternatives. Thus, it was standardized a methodology for qualitative assessment of environmental impacts in gated communities, helping prevent their occurrence. Curitiba and its metropolitan area were chosen as the study area due to the large number of existing gated communities. The results showed a preference for managing alternatives that prioritized the concentration in storage, generation and preparation area, as well as the building materials area, in order to avoid the dispersion of contamination and restrict the extension of environmental impacts on soil, air and water.