The Minister of Tourism and Sustainable Development, Pavle Radulović, announced that a 3-D ortho-photograph has been completed for the part of the country where most of the illegal construction was carried out, which includes the coast, Podgorica, Nikšić, Cetinje and Danilovgrad, which means that the demolition of those buildings will soon begin. which are not in that recording and are not in the DUPs.
In an interview with Vijesti Television, Radulović said that all wild objects will not be able to be legalized under the new Spatial Planning Act and that the state will have to show strength because the citizens relaxed during the transition and came up with the idea that they can go wild.
"The most important thing for us to know is that not all buildings can be legalized. Therefore, those objects that the plan recognizes can be legalized. Those that the plan does not recognize cannot be legalized. roads, railways, protected zones, water sources, transmission line zones, highways cannot be legalized. Also, facilities that were not built in accordance with the plan, and apply for legalization, the procedure for them will be interrupted until the adoption of the General Plan regulation, that is, a plan that will finally assess the situation in the area. If that plan recognizes them, it will be possible to legalize them, if not, it will not," Radulović pointed out.
You said that part of those facilities will not be able to be legalized. Do you have even a rough estimate of how many such facilities there will be? And how do you think you can solve the problems that are already arising because they are mostly residential buildings, the best example being the park-forest Zagorič?
"The state must show strength, because the law must be respected. You can remove the object yourself, or it can be removed by the state at your expense. The state will most certainly not remove objects that are not in the way at that moment, because they will also be charged a fee for illegal facilities, which is quite draconian. So you're going to get into a situation where if you don't remove it yourself, the tax will eat it, conditionally speaking. People relaxed for some reason, while there was this transition, they got the idea that they could run wild , to build. The 3D ortho-forto image has almost been prepared, certainly for these municipalities that are most at risk, the entire coast, Podgorica, Nikšić, Cetinje, Danilovgrad. And there it is very clearly written in the law, if the building is not on that image and it is not in the plan, it cannot be legalized. The footage for this part, which is the most critical, has already been completed, and that is exclusive information. So those who are hurriedly building to finish, are working for nothing, just spending money madly," said Radulović.
As the minister of sustainable development, will you insist on respecting the recommendations of the HIE, which do not recommend the construction of a bridge on Verigma (according to the existing project, height of about 60 meters) because it would damage the visual identity of the Bay of Kotor? "I will insist that all the recommendations that we have from all expert bodies are respected. However, it is implemented by the planners, when they produce the plan, they will have to write what was respected, what was not, if something was not, why it was not, and then we will talk to our partners again if such situations arise. I will tell you one radical twist, Dresden once held a referendum on whether it wanted to remain under the auspices of UNESCO or whether it wanted to build a bridge. And they built a bridge. In the referendum, the citizens voted yes a bridge is built. I wouldn't have expected that we would come to that," said Radulović.
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