Slaven Radunović - the Minister of Planning, Urbanism and State Property - gave his full support on Sunday, the 15th of the current month Biljani Vučurović - to the woman Jola Vučurović - to a, as Slaven said, "a smart, hard-working and classy Serbian woman" - for everything she did both as a professor and as the director of an "elite educational institution" - the Podgorica Gymnasium - and on the occasion of the controversial case of sexual harassment of a (former) student of the said elite educational institution by professor (Čečović) - that the very next day, without blinking, he would admit that he - Slaven - did not look at PUP.
"I," says Slaven, "I haven't looked at PUP."
I did look at PUP - I admit - I failed to resist the urge to look at it - but far from delving into it - mainly because the conditions have not (yet) been met (and we don't know when the conditions will be met) to in the domains of spatial planning and urbanism in these areas, anything worth mentioning happens - which means that both Montenegrin spatial planning and Montenegrin urbanism are steadily (or gorges) on the beaten track and three and a half decades - and very likely several decades more - on the path that leads - through the strictly controlled and carefully nurtured so-called of spatial-urbanistic chaos, as a way station - into the very heart of darkness and the abyss...
If you don't believe me - ask Svetislav Gavrilovica...
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It is, of course, about the so-called to the innovative Draft Amendment and addition to the spatial urban plan of the Capital City of Podgorica - about the Draft which is Milojkovo Submitted to the Government by Slaven's Ministry - and approved by Miloj's Government (complete with the Program for holding a public hearing) at the 59th session, held on November 28 of the current year.
After Milojko's Government approved the Draft PUP, we had (even) two unsuccessful attempts to hold a live central public debate - on the 11th and 13th of the current month - with the omnipresent Mrs. Izgarevic Pavicevic in the main role - a lady who was the right hand of former ministers Radulović i O(J)I will come, and the minister Novaković Đurović - and which today is Slaven's right-hand man - strictly in the function of guaranteeing the continuity of shameful planning and urban planning practices - that on the 16th of the current month, on the website of Milojkov's Government (gov.me), i.e. Slaven's ministry - a notice appeared which stated, between among other things - yes, fanfare please: the central public hearing is abandoned (live, therefore) - and that "the interested public and users of the space can, for specific locations, have an immediate inspection of the planning document in the premises Ministry every working day from 8 a.m. to 15 p.m. - in offices no. 303, 312 and 314”.
If we judge on the basis of the specific material to which the links lead us on the address gov.me - on the basis of material that is not even worth mentioning, let alone any kind of analysis - aside from the fact that many among the interested citizens of the Capital City did not manage to find the mentioned links - or they failed to study the mentioned material due to its incredible volume, due to its impenetrability, due to the mismatch of textual and graphic attachments, due to the size of individual files/documents, etc. - then it is commendable, of course, that Slaven provided at least those "space users" with an insight into the planning document - if not in digital form, then at least "directly" - and as for the "interested public" - I would say, (almost so) unprecedentedly, that plan not only does not offer anything worth mentioning - but represents a serious step forward in the direction of the absolute senselessness of the almost senseless planning and urban planning practice in these rugged and fiery areas of ours.
And Slaven - both by his actions and by his inaction - did everything in his power to exclude the public from the process of drafting and adopting the PG PUP - a document whose primary goal is quite clear: to open wide paths for individuals willing to build - by individuals headed by none other than Comrade Milojko, Prime Minister - because, as we know: one must build! - and everything else, including all the mechanisms of the executive power - including the so-called-spatial-planning and the so-called-urbanism in the function of the last hole in the pipe - is subordinated to that imperative.
The most symptomatic in this unhappy context is that Slaven's PUP was ignored by DPS trusts...
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And we had the continuation of the Third Session of the Second Regular Session of the Parliament of Montenegro in the current year - 12th day - 16th December...
"Some people", shouts Slaven, "probably slightly frustrated by the events of the last elections in Podgorica, are trying to make it impossible to hold the Public Debate, where the citizens who are eagerly waiting to see this PUP, many of them can't wait to valorize their property , practically, that Public Debate, because of their crisis that forces them to self-promote, to snatch the microphone from people...".
Now... Maybe it wouldn't be too bad Paradise abandon the Parliamentary sessions due to the inappropriate behavior of some frustrated MPs - who are forced by the crisis to self-promote etc.
"There are people in this city, who have a lot of property," Slaven shouts equally, "who could not register a barn, that they could not get anything to do at a certain time, and it is time for someone to get the opportunity to valorize, if they everyone around him got, so that he also gets something to valorize. And there are several such cases and I'm not sorry for that. Let me tell you right away, that's what plans are for, that's what changes are for."
No comment ...
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Dig up and study, for your homework, three decisions that you will find on the website of the Official Gazette of Montenegro (sluzbenilist.me): Decision on Amendments Decision on Amendments to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Capital City of Podgorica - SLCG 133/2022 dated 6 in December 2022 - then the Decision on the amendment of the Decision on amendments to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Capital City of Podgorica - SLCG 84/2024 of September 6, 2024 - and at the end the Decision on amendments to the Decision on Drafting Amendments and Supplements to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Capital City of Podgorica - SLCG 110/2024 of November 12, 2024.
Speaking of which, it would not be a bad idea to dig up the "Proposal of the Decision on Amendments to the Decision on Drafting Amendments and Supplements to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Capital City of Podgorica" - which was adopted by Miloj's Government at its 46th session, held on August 28 of the current year. - and immediately afterwards "Information on the reasons for adopting the Decision on amendments to the Decision on amendments and additions to the Spatial-Urban Plan of the Capital City of Podgorica (SLCG 133/2022 from December 6, 2022)" - adopted by Milojko's Government at the 47th session, held on September 5 of the current year - and also if you dig up the "Information on the project "Velje brdo"" - which Milojko's Government adopted at 56 . session, held on November 5 of the current year - you would have quite enough material - to begin with...
Well, when you digest all that well, when you seriously get into the issues - into the living mire of the Montenegrin executive power - some things will surely become clearer to you...
And always stick to Milojko's timeless verses: The customer is very important, the customer will be able to follow the customer! - and you will never go wrong.
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