Brno will formulate requirements towards the regional principles of territorial development

Brno - Brno wants to clearly formulate its requirements regarding the proposal for the Principles of Spatial Development of the South Moravian Region at the council meeting on May 5. The city councilors have called on the city districts to express their opinions by April 27. Until then, the city wants to discuss problematic issues with the region, with the first meeting already taking place on Monday, said Deputy Mayor Martin Ander (Green Party) today at the city council.
    The proposal for the regional spatial plan was approved by the regional councilors on March 12. However, it hardly resolves any issues for Brno. The region has not planned any new highways or roads in several areas of the Brno metropolitan area since the Supreme Administrative Court annulled a previous planning document in 2012, instead using only the instrument of spatial reserve. A study to assess the suitability of developing new highways and roads is to be commissioned only after the approval of the principles of spatial development. "We are trying to negotiate with the region to change this stance and not to postpone problematic decisions into the future. With the railways, it is logical, and a decision-making process is underway regarding the location of the station. But with the roads, nothing is happening," said Ander.
    The region wants to approve a new document before the elections, which will take place next autumn. It has been missing since its inception, and because of this, it has not been possible to construct any new highways in the region and draw European funds for them.
    While regional councilor Antonín Tesařík (KDU-ČSL) claims that Brno must first deal with the routing of key transport routes in its spatial plan, the update of which was annulled by the court a quarter of a year ago, Ander argues that the process must work in the opposite direction and that a higher-level spatial planning document must first be created from which the Brno spatial plan can then derive.
    The most critical areas of spatial planning include the routing of the R43 highway from Kuřim to the D1 highway, which is connected by the controversial southwest tangent as a link between D1 and R52.