Prague has approved a draft memorandum with the city districts on Trojmezí
The Prague City Hall plans to conclude a memorandum with Prague 10, 11 and 15 on land in the area of the so-called Trojmezí. His proposal was approved by the deputies. The memorandum will be signed when it is adopted by three city districts. According to the proposal, the city should use it to preserve the leisure character of the area and try to acquire land that owns the owner’s privacy, including development companies.
Trojmezí is a large undeveloped area on the border of Prague 10, 11 and 15. It includes the nature park Hostivař – Záběhlice and the protected Meander Botič. Developers have previously used it to stop it, but have failed to push through changes to the zoning plan. “The capital and the affected city districts are interested in keeping Trojmezí as a leisure location,” said councilor Jan Chabr (TOP 09).
According to Chabra, the city owns a large part of the land in the area, and others are owned by restituents and development companies, such as Finep or Kaprain Group. The memorandum stipulates that the city will negotiate the purchase of land or their exchange for other plots owned by the city. Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček (for TOP 09) added that a landscape study should be created for the entire territory, which will precisely define the stoppable and non-stoppable parts.
It was the question of buildability that complicated the municipality’s negotiations with the city districts. “Not all parts of the city have very good interests,” Chabr said. The mayor of Prague 11, Jiří Dohnal (Pirates), stated that his part of the city wanted to place a sports field on part of the land. Because of this, according to him, they had to demand that the entire territory not be strictly defined as unstoppable, which was required by other parts of the city.
The development companies that own land there tried to build the area between 2006 and 2010. At that time, the local and subsequently the individual town halls and municipalities opposed it. The councilors also discussed the intended construction in October 2015, when they rejected a proposal to change the use of several plots of land on which the developer wanted to build houses, shops, schools and cultural and recreational facilities. According to Chabra, the municipality does not rule out the possibility that it could use part of the land for the construction of city flats.
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