Brno will send comments on the amendment to the construction law to Dostálová

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17.02.2020 17:25

Brno - This week, Brno will send comments on the prepared amendment to the building law to Minister for Regional Development Klára Dostálová (for ANO). This was said today to reporters by Filip Chvátal (KDU-ČSL), the councillor for urban planning. According to him, the amendment will not bring the planned increase in efficiency and will weaken the role of self-government in the preparation of the spatial plan. Brno has an old spatial plan. It is working on a new one, which is to be completed by the end of 2023. Other cities are also criticizing the amendment.

The government hopes that the proposal from Minister Klára Dostálová will speed up and simplify the building approval process. Last year, the government approved the bill's general outline in the middle of the year, and the timeline foresees enactment starting in 2021. According to the Ministry for Regional Development, which is presenting the law, the duration of the building approval process should be reduced from the current five years to one year.

Brno already joined with Prague, Ostrava, Plzeň, and Liberec last year in a platform of large cities to provide joint comments on the amendment. "During her visit to Brno in mid-January, the minister requested that we send her our comments in writing, so we have prepared the main six that we will send her. It should be sent this week," Chvátal stated. According to him, Brno will have comments together with other cities as well as separately.

Chvátal believes that the amendment will not bring the desired increase in efficiency because it removes the role of self-government in the preparation of the spatial plan and places it under a new office. "Prague and Brno are both in the process of preparing spatial plans that will expire. This is a fundamental threat to the issuance of these documents. The building law should strengthen the role of self-government," Chvátal added.

According to him, this is not just a matter of preparing a spatial plan, but also other documentation such as spatial studies. Brno is also striving for cities to have the authority to issue specific statements for spatial proceedings, which are often the only way for self-governments to express their opinions in building proceedings.

Following a recent agreement between the government and the Union of Towns and Municipalities, officials responsible for building procedures at the level of municipalities should not be transferred to the new state model with the Supreme Building Authority. Originally, 13,500 officials were to be transferred under the state, but now it will be about 7,000 according to Dostálová.

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