Law on urban planning unleashes

From Yanukovych will need to veto the law "On regulation of urban development on 17 January at 12:00 in Kiev will share non-governmental organizations and activists from sending the President requesting veto adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine" About regulation of urban development. " If the bill is signed, no public hearings or architectural and environmental impact assessments will not play any role. The law, designed by large developers, lets cut the trees, put a fence and dig a trench without any coordination with the people, historians and environmentalists. Recall, January 14 Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law N 7418 "On regulation of urban development." "For" vote 296 deputies. The document provides for improvement of permitting system in the construction industry. In particular, the declining number of licensing procedures, time to pass and the list of required documents. This Act was developed on the initiative of Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Tigipko together Minregionbudom, market specialists, leading international and Ukrainian organizations, as well as Ukrainian Construction Association (UCA). Main Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada during the adoption of the bill drew attention to the fact that this document narrows the subject of public discussion, in comparison with that provided by the current Law on Planning and Development. " In particular, under current law, the public discussion to be agreed in accordance with legislation draft schemes, territory planning and administrative-territorial units, their individual parts, general plans of settlements, detailed plans for the territories, development projects, the territories, urban planning study objects allocation of urban development. At the same time, according to Article 21 of the Law "On regulation of urban development" public discussion to be developed and agreed the draft master plans for settlements. "Taking into consideration the existing guidelines for the operation of the law during the public hearings of individual rights of individuals who reside in the territories to which the developed documentation, or on an adjacent territory, as well as owners and users of land, located on the territory in respect of which developed documentation, we believe that filed the bill can be narrowed content and scope of existing rights of individuals, including those provided for in Article 50 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which is not permitted by Part 3 of Article 22 of the Constitution of Ukraine "- said in the remarks of the legal management of BP to the text of a document prepared second reading. However, these comments of lawyers in the adoption of the Law of the deputies did not take into account.