Two apartment buildings have also been added to the list of the most important buildings in Prague
almost forty seats have previously been chosen by the Prague City Council as the most important in the entire metropolis. Until yesterday, Praguers could also comment on the changes.
However, at a public meeting held on Wednesday, August 3, at the town hall, people were also interested in why the construction of an apartment building in Modřany or a similar case near Bohdalce in Michle came into this “elite group”.
“One of the absurd proposals is the plan to transform the Na Sychrově kindergarten in Prague 10 into a residential building. Therefore, I do not understand the meaning of the discussed change,” added another case from the Prague 8 representative Petr Vilgus (SZ).
The decision of the council thus raised quite legitimate questions about what makes an apartment building important for the whole of Prague. “It looks as if the developers have pushed through their business plans through politics,” said Jan Vydra from Vokovice, who took part in the meeting.
The new zoning plan will not be available until 2014?
These 38 changes will be discussed separately, so they will avoid complex and often protracted approval processes within the zoning plan. This concerns several changes and was due to come in 2014 at the earliest.
Deputy Mayor Josef Nosk (ODS), who is in charge of territorial development, that the mentioned changes were selected by former councils and are a matter of years old. Proposals for their classification as major city buildings are, according to the majority, submitted by individual city districts on the basis of their decision.
“I will not say much today what the officials set the criteria and how the projects were selected. By choosing them once, it has come to life and the process is over,” Nosek said.
The former chief architect of the apartment building is not one of the major buildings
Just to give you an idea. Ivo Oberstein, who worked as the chief architect of Prague in the first 1990s and worked with the zoning plan almost daily, told MF DNES that he always included large transport projects, the preservation of large urban areas and the construction of entire districts.
That is, buildings that in some way shape the city or use local borders. “Moreover, these most important intentions should not suffer from the regular changes of Prague’s political leadership,” Oberstein added.
The former chief architect then ranked individual apartment buildings up to the third – the last category in the ranking of their city-wide significance.
In the end, all July had people to be able to provide you, now the city is processing. “It will take about two months and it would be proposed to the council that city-wide significant changes could be made in October or November,” said municipality spokeswoman Tereza Krasenska.
The local ones also made significant changes throughout the city
Important plans that will change Prague include, for example, the construction of a recreational zone in the south of the metropolis in Radotín.
According to the municipality’s intention, there will be several new lakes and a marina near the confluence of the Vltava and Berounka rivers.
Under the bridge of the Prague Ring Road, a large recreational area for Praguers would be created here, which also helped in the framework of flood protection in Prague.
It is a large building, which should also appear in the zoning plan Tunnel on the Prague-Beroun railway line. According to plans, Prague should connect to Beroun through a tunnel through which trains could run at high speed. The journey would take passengers ten minutes, thanks to a twenty-five-kilometer-long tunnel between the two cities.
One of the most discussed changes is extension of the landfill in Ďáblice. A significant change occurred in 2009, when the plan was included in the list of changes. This provoked resistance among the inhabitants of Ďáblice. The landfill should grow in the direction of Březiněves. “The new functional area of waste management is proposed at the expense of areas of forest stands, greenery and arable land, areas for growing vegetables,” the material says.
Crossroads Malovanka
The construction of an operations center at the crossroads is also a nationwide change Malovanka, which is part of the city ring in Prague 6. In addition to the exit from the tunnels, a multifunctional operations center is planned here, which will be used, for example, for an ambulance. It was also supposed to house TSK employees who, for example, monitor traffic in city ring tunnels and manage traffic.
On the contrary, the construction of an apartment building in Chodov is one of the projects that will only “ride” with the really big ones. It should stand at Ryšavého and Tomíčkova streets. Also in Modřany, they have apartment buildings built in areas intended for sports, as well as in Michle, where it is planned to abolish the kindergarten and build houses.
In Čakovice, significant changes are expected to include family houses, an office building and a sports ground instead of orchards and vineyards.