The South Moravian representatives will vote on the new zoning plan

Brno - The South Moravian representatives will vote in June on 180 objections to the zoning plan. These were submitted by the public. Officials are now reviewing hundreds of pages of documents. Initially, they anticipated that addressing the objections and comments from the public would take until the end of the year. However, the region needs the zoning plan, which will determine the routes of controversial roads, said councilor David Macek (KDU-ČSL) to journalists today. He therefore ordered a schedule with shorter deadlines.
    The councilor admitted that the objections could be extensive. Only Petr Firbas and Miroslav Patrik, the two most active opponents of the transportation solutions that the region has long advocated, submitted 700 pages of objections and comments.
    Macek expects a long discussion about the zoning plan at the June council meeting. He wants to negotiate the approval with the political clubs in the council beforehand to ensure that the discussions do not last for many hours.
    The public hearing that took place in April at the exhibition center lasted around six hours. People then criticized that instead of engaging in a discussion, for which they came, they had to listen to officials' explanations of the document for several hours first. According to Macek, however, if the region was to comply with the law, it was necessary to present the document first. Nevertheless, the Environmental Law Service criticized that even representatives of the public, who gathered hundreds of signatures under the objections, were given only three minutes to express their opinions. They calculated that, for example, Lenka Hershey from Brno-Tuřany, representing the opponents of the planned extensive industrial zone, received the equivalent of six hundredths of a second per signed person to express her opinion.
    Macek believes that the council will vote as proposed by the coalition. "There are objections that I am considering whether to accommodate or not. I will have further discussions with those who submitted them," he stated. He did not want to reveal what they pertained to.
    If the council approves the zoning plan in June, it will take effect in July. It is expected that the Supreme Administrative Court will then deal with them. For example, the mayors of eight municipalities, who disagree with the planned highway connections in the south of Brno, are determined to appeal to it.