The Brno councilors approved the final proposal of the zoning plan

Brno - The Brno city council today approved the final draft of the urban plan, which is set to be approved by the city representatives on December 10, said councilor Petr Bořecký (ANO) to reporters today. After 30 years, Brno is expected to have a new urban plan. The city has been striving for it for more than 20 years, and its preparation has been accompanied by court disputes; in June 2022, the representatives did not approve the finished urban plan and sent it back for revisions.

The current draft of the urban plan is a modified proposal that was presented to the representatives exactly two and a half years ago. The creator, the Office of the Architect of the City of Brno, incorporated the then six instructions into it. It was necessary to refine and supplement the regulations for construction in stabilized areas, especially in inner blocks, including defining their protected values by locality. Furthermore, it was necessary to differentiate the types of residential areas into individual housing and mass housing, to ensure that apartment buildings cannot be constructed where family houses are intended. The creator also had to include an assessment of the impacts of the urban plan on stabilized areas in case further construction would take place there. The justification and appropriateness of changing building areas to non-building had to be verified, and the comments from city districts gathered during the public discussion had to be meticulously reassessed. The delineation of the plots transferred to the city free of charge by the state was also required to be brought into compliance with the contracts.

"We have prepared a predictable and readable urban plan. It clearly defines areas designated for construction, as we support development, as well as those that are stabilized. We protect them from further construction and protect green spaces," said Bořecký. According to him, the planner accommodated the demands of the city districts to the maximum extent possible, even though it could not meet all of them. "However, new demands kept coming in, so at one point we said stop, in order to meet the schedule and prevent requests from piling up. It will be easier if requests that can be postponed without consequence are checked only after the new urban plan is issued. If possible, they will be included in the first change of the urban plan," Bořecký said.

CTK contacted all district mayors this May, and their responses indicated that essential deficiencies had been removed from the proposal and that only comments regarding specific localities were further addressed.

The new urban plan is designed to help the city's development and current needs, which are no longer in line with the period when the old plan was created, namely the first half of the 1990s. It aims to simplify the construction of flood protection measures, the redevelopment of brownfields, primarily old and unused factory sites. It also outlines new transport constructions. The document is set to come into effect in the first quarter of next year.