138 Kazan city planning projects have passed electronic public discussions

The platform in the information system dispute.kzn.ru allows everyone to participate in discussions remotely.

(KZN.RU, April 15, Alena Miroshnichenko). Kazan was one of the first cities in Russia to discuss urban planning documents on an electronic platform. Due to the introduction of amendments to the Urban Planning Code of the RF the Kazan City Duma approved a new Regulation on the procedure for organizing and conducting public hearings and public discussions. Thus, since June 30 of last year until March 2019, 138 projects were discussed in the information system dispute.kzn.ru. Irina Dyabilkina, the head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, announced this at the Business Monday today.

Public discussions relate to projects on the planning and surveying of territories, on deviation from the limiting design parameters, conditionally permitted uses and making changes to the map of zones of city planning regulations. “A number of projects submitted for public discussion, have caused great activity of city residents. This is a project for deviating from the limit parameters of the permitted construction on Gubkin Street, a project for planning and surveying the territory of a linear object, the Great Kazan Circle, a project for planning the territory of 33 military camps”, noted the speaker.

The platform, which is actively being explored by city residents, offers a number of advantages: remote participation at a convenient time, submitting comments and suggestions directly from home. As I. Dyabilkina told, many discussions arose when introducing an information resource since there were no analogs. But today the work in the pilot mode is already completed. City residents have the right to send their suggestions and comments to the information resource dispute.kzn.ru, to come to the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning and leave their proposals in the public discussion journal, as well as to send a written appeal to the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning. “Employees of the Department are ready to provide a computer and to train them to work in an electronic resource”, explained I. Dyabilkina.