Krasnodar, 22 October – Yug Times. The Krasnodar community is actively discussing a new urban planning concept for the regional centre. By 8 November, the Commission on Land Use and Development should produce an opinion on its results. The document has already caused a wide range of response of townspeople and ambiguous evaluation of experts. What in it aroused anxiety of ordinary Krasnodar residents, and what meanings did its developers put into the development concept?
“This document was not discussed with anyone from the public and expert community,” says Yelena Shuvalova, Director of the Help the City public centre for urban environment development.
The draft document was submitted to the Krasnodar Commission on Land Use and Development, which includes representatives of the City Administration, the City Duma, and the community. Actually, all the changes that were made to the new document had to pass through this commission. But, as its members say, only 20 per cent or even less of the applications for changes to the document passed through it. The rest of the edits got in other ways to the institute that was engaged in the development of the project. Probably, the technical assignment that had been given to the institute, in connection with which the work on the project began, was to take out of the city boundaries a number of areas and reclassify them as agricultural lands. This was one of the main tasks of Krasnodar's new planning document. But it is a big question how a bunch of other changes that citizens are now documenting came to be there.
“Only recently, a few years ago, the rules of land use and development were adopted in the Kuban capital,” commented Aleksandr Safronov, a deputy of the Krasnodar City Duma. “If the general plan and land use and development rules that we ordered recently were both of high quality, they should have easily overlapped with each other. But in fact, we had to pay another 50 million roubles to get a single document drawn up. Moreover, it is not easy to understand the new project. In my opinion, this was done on purpose. As an example: in the general plan there was a green zone on the embankment of the Yubileiny neighbourhood; the land use and development rules also provide for a green zone in the same place, but when the two documents were combined, somehow the territory for the temple appeared there. And there are a lot of such moments all over the city. That is, in fact, a new master plan was developed under the pretext of combining the two documents.”
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