KYIV. Aug 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The new draft general plan of Kyiv until 2025 retains the possibility of developing the city thanks to its suburban zone, although this is only possible if local territorial communities give their consent, Head of the Town-planning and Architecture Department of Kyiv City Administration Serhiy Tselovalnyk has said.
“Kyiv city agglomeration would be created for sure, but not thanks to a change to Kyiv’s borders or territorial expansion, it would be done on the basis of the law on voluntary cooperation of territorial communities when, as is done in France, for example, Lyon, Paris, agreements between Kyiv’s communities or its districts and local authorities of the territory to which the function is transferred will be signed,” he said during lawmaker hearings on the Kyiv’s general plan on Thursday.
According to the new draft general plan of Kyiv until 2025, in the next 20 years if the planning decisions for the further development of Kyiv, the territory of which as of January 1, 2015 was 83,558 hectares, are agreed, a total of 1,416 hectares of new territories are additionally required.
Tselovalnyk said that the new general plan has been drawn up taking into account the forecast for the development of the demographic situation and transport infrastructure on the basis of updated data, while in the current general plan until 2020 the forecast indicators were set too low, and have now been exceeded.
According to the new plan, it is planned that the population of Kyiv would increase to 3.147 million within the next 20 years from 2.847 million as of January 1, 2015.
The draft document plans the construction of 22 million square meters or 314,300 new apartments, the increase of the average number of square meters per person to 27 from 22.3 as of January 1, 2015, and the removal of 912,500 square meters of housing area.
In the next 20 years it is planned to increase the housing fund of Kyiv to 84.707 million square meters or 1.386 apartments from 63.619 million square meters or 1.088 million apartments as of January 1, 2015.
The draft document states that during this period the Kyiv’s landscape, recreation and green space would be reduced to 27,981 hectares from 32,997 hectares as of January 1, 2015, and the city nature reserve fund would be expanded from 12,452 to 18,899 hectares.
In the next 20 years it is planned to reduce industrial and scientific space to 2,954 hectares from 3,739 hectares as of January 1, 2015.
Tselovalnyk said that the new draft general plan includes construction of new roads and redirection of transport flow to bypass the central part of Kyiv.
It is planned to increase the general length of streets and roads to 1,869 kilometers from 1,663 kilometers as of January 1, 2015.
In addition, it is planned to build four waste recycling complexes with a total annual capacity of 800,000 tonnes.
It is planned to increase the number of solid waste landfills to four with a total area of 115.9 hectares and the number of construction waste landfills to two with a total area of 74.2 hectares, while as of January 1, 2015, one of each kind of landfill was operating with a gross area of 63.4 hectares and 32.5 hectares respectively.
It is also planned to increase the number of preschool educational centers and schools to 107,000 from 87,900, and to 358,800 from 308,300 as of January 1, 2015 respectively.
