New Land Use Plan
Because the new Building Act came in effect in 2007, and with regard to the fact that new land use plans have long been procured in Prague in roughly 10-year cycles, and because change has occurred in Prague in the last 10 years in terms of the perspective of many locations, the Prague Municipal Assembly decided on 31 May, 2007 by Resolution No. 7/1 that it will procure within law No. 183/2006 a new Land Use Plan of the City of Prague.
The proposal specification of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague was publicly exhibited from 3 August to 1 September, 2007. Prague Municipal Assembly Resolution No. 17/43 from 29 May, 2008 approved the specification. In October 2008 the so-called first reading of the Draft Land Use Plan of the City of Prague was concluded, which was consulted with individual boroughs in the first half of 2009, in accordance with the Statutes of the City of Prague current at that time. Based on their remarks, the plan was modified and finished by August 2009. The Draft Land Use Plan of the City of Prague and the Assessment of the Effect on the Sustainable Development of the Territory were exhibited for public viewing from 2 November to 9 December, 2009. Public proceedings took place on 23 November, 2009. Apart from the public exhibition and discussions, several public lectures also took place, along with comprehensive reading of the Draft Land Use Plan for interested individuals who could not be present at the public proceedings. The final day to submit opinions, objections and remarks on the exhibited Draft Land Use Plan of the City of Prague was 9 December, 2009. In total 16,000 opinions, objections and remarks on the draft were collected and are currently being assessed.
Processing the Proposal for the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague will proceed with attention to the opinions, positively assessed objections and remarks. Joint discussion on the proposal will take place mainly with the respective bodies and public discussion on the proposal will follow. If the public proceedings are positive, the new land use plan could be issued after processing the objections and remarks incurred from the public proceedings. Until then, the current Land Use Plan of the City of Prague as amended by later regulations and modifications remains fully in effect.
The procurer of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague is the Department of Land Use Planning of the Prague City Hall.
The processor of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague is the City Development Authority Prague.
| Complete documentation of the draft of the Land Use Plan of the City of Prague as well as the Assessment of the Effect on the Sustainable Development of the Territory can be viewed on the Internet in digital form. |  |
The Draft Land Use Plan of the City of Prague is divided into the binding (ruling, after approval) part and the reasoning, which completes the Assessment of the Effect on the Sustainable Development of the Territory. The binding part of the land use plan contains regulations which must be followed. The Prague Municipal Assembly approves it. The reasoning of the land use plan by regulations gives reasons and explains the concept of individual systems. Both the binding part and the reasoning contain drawings. The Assessment of the Effects on the Sustainable Development of the Territory (VVURÚ) assesses, for example, the effect on the environment, points out risks of the proposed solution and recommends possible measures for alleviating negative impacts.
The Land Use Plan of the City of Prague is conceived in accordance with principles of sustainable development on the following principles:
- Redevelopment and revitalisation of currently dilapidated areas
- Preference of development within the compact city
- Strict regulation of expansion of Prague into open territory
- Protection of existing greenery within the city
- Green belt around the city
- More liberal conditions and possibilities for building in already built-up areas
- New methodology of spatial regulation
- Protection of skyline and regulation of location of high-rise buildings
- Emphasis on developing public transport, especially rail (metro, trams, railway)
- Tram tangents connecting city centres of the compact city
- Larger role of railway in serving the city – more than 20 new stations
- Development of infrastructure for cyclists and pedestrians
The new land use plan differs significantly from the current one. It is simpler and more transparent, making it more comprehensible for all users, from the general public to specialists. Unlike the current land use plan, which uses 69 functions and 28 colours to describe individual land types, the legend of the new land use plan has only 14 grounds with different use, which nonetheless aggregate for clarity into four types of area. The land use is more flexible. Investors have opportunity, with due consideration to local conditions, to revitalise grounds in built-up areas with less than the current burden without making alterations to the land use plan, as is currently the case.
Another innovation of the draft land use plan is a different concept of spatial regulation. Unlike the current land use plan, the draft defines the urban fabric. For development and transformation areas, floor area ratio is still used. The regulation of heights of developments is completely new. The methodology of calculating the greenery ratio is modified. Rules for locating high-rise buildings are also created, including determination of conditions whose fulfilment must be verified.
The draft land use plan is processed in variations. This concerns local variations which solve differently the land use, transport or technical facilities. The choice of various solutions in individual locations should emerge from discussion on the draft.
The draft also proposes phasing fulfilment of area fixed on building superior infrastructural buildings or on gradual fulfilment of the area. Land reserves for future development are also proposed.
The Draft Land Use Plan of the City of Prague, in further accordance with the Building Act, specifies areas and corridors in which verification of changes of their use by planning study is a condition for decision making regarding land changes.
Contact
arch. Kateřina Szentesiová, vedoucí Odboru urbanistické koncepce, URM.
szentesiova@urm.mepnet.cz
Aktualizace: 12/2010
