less parking in new residences? — Construction Forum
The proposal will now be commented on by the city district, after which the city management will vote again. Councilors approved an extension of the comment process to 45 days to give City Hall enough time to comment on the changes. “It is obvious that there will be some discussion about it,” said Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček (for TOP 09), who was elected as the leader of the STAN movement and also elected to the new council.
Marcela Fialková, director of the strategy of the development company UDI Group, praised the city management’s intention: “Where we want to achieve affordable prices and in places where there is high-quality public transport, such a large number of parking spaces as we are obliged to build today, we mostly don’t even use them and sell them.” often from the neighborhood.” And she added to the people that they need not worry that developers would not build parking spaces at all in an effort to reduce housing prices.
The proposal was approved by the serving council consisting of representatives of the Pirates, Prague Sobě, TOP 09 and STAN, which after the elections leads Prague until the election of the new municipality leadership. Last week, representatives of the winning coalition Spolu (ODS, TOP 09, KDU-ČSL) called on the current city council not to make any important decisions. Spolu leader Bohuslav Svoboda (ODS) directly called on Mayor Zdenek Hřiby (Pirates) to do so in an open letter. “The law is clear. The city council is responsible for the management of the city until a new council is elected,” said Z. Hřib in response to Svoboda’s letter.
PSP are implementing regulations to the Building Act and regulate construction based on the specific requirements of the capital’s urban planning. They have been valid since 2016. Their future is now being discussed during the preparation of an amendment to the new Building Act, while their abolition is also in play, which Prague and larger cities criticize. Then new rules would also have to be set for the number of parking spaces in new projects. For developers, a relatively serious argument is the lack of interest of investors – according to some builders, they are not interested in parking areas in houses. The Penta company intends to apply a different approach to this problem – in its complex near Masaryk railway station, it intends to provide parking in its buildings, for example, on weekends or holidays to the public.
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