Ústí nad Labem will have a new zoning plan by 2011

Ústí nad Labem - The city of Ústí nad Labem will have a new urban plan by the end of 2011, which will determine what activities the city hall wishes to develop in certain parts of the city. It will be drafted by the associations Acadis, Causa, and architect Petr Vávra, informed Mayor Jan Kubata. The city will pay them nearly 34.3 million Czech crowns for the new urban plan.
    According to Kubata, the city must have the new urban plan developed because the law requires it. Furthermore, the current urban plan from the mid-90s no longer meets the city's ideas for further development. The city council has approved some changes to it at almost every meeting in recent years.
    The authors of the new document will build on the old urban plan. Kubata claims that a number of changes are being prepared. For example, the new urban plan is supposed to delineate vacant areas around Ústí nad Labem, where neighborhoods mainly composed of family homes could emerge in the future. Investors who would like to establish a new industrial zone in the Ústí region will also find guidance in it.
    According to city officials, during the transitional period in which the new urban plan is being created and approved, there is no risk that someone will start preparing a project and eventually find out that the new urban plan will not allow them to complete it. Officials responsible for the issue will reportedly inform investors about the progress of work on the new document to alert them to any potential changes.