The two biggest corruption planning documents - the detailed urban plans "Budva centar" and "Bečići", which led to the concreting of the most attractive parts and millions of revenues of the construction mafia, could be invalidated by the one who adopted them and wholeheartedly defended them - DPS, with the help of the new committee majorities.
That the plans adopted at the time when Budva was ruled by the DPS, were confirmed by the message delivered by Prime Minister Duško Marković from the parliamentary rostrum, stating that he would obtain the opinion of the local administration.
"The new state strategy in the field of spatial planning will be expressed through the preparation and adoption of only two state planning documents that will strategically determine the entire territory of our country, and their preparation is well underway. These are the Spatial Plan of Montenegro and the General Regulation Plan of Montenegro. In the process of drafting the General Regulation Plan, the planning solutions of the DUPs 'Budva - Centar' and 'Bečići' should also be reviewed and analyzed, said the Prime Minister, assessing that these are, to put it mildly, inadequate planning solutions, the implementation of which led to problems in the area and disturbance of ambient harmony.
He announced the possibility of repealing both planning documents, which was insisted on years ago by the opposition parties in Budva - Democrats and URA, as well as independent councilor Stevan Džaković, who is now part of the new councilor majority - DPS, SD and Crnogorsk.
Marković clarified that the law offers the possibility of banning construction, but also of invalidating plans, if in the procedure of drafting the General Regulation Plan there is an expected assessment of the necessity of protecting the area covered by valid, inadequate plans.
"The government, respecting the legal powers, but also obtaining the opinion of the local self-government and the expert planning team, will shed light on all the challenges of this issue and make a decision for the good of this and future generations of Budva," he said. In this, he could be overtaken by the new majority in Budva, which could already initiate a decision on the introduction of a moratorium at the next parliamentary session, if Crnogorska and Džaković continue to insist on the views they promoted in previous years about the harmfulness of planning documents. It seems that the support of the DPS is not disputed after the prime minister's clear views.
Moratoriums introduced and abolished
That the construction business has always defeated the intentions to protect the coastal stretch from concreting is evidenced by the fact that in the previous three and a half years, moratoriums were introduced, but also abolished, which led to political crises in Budva.
DUP "Budva centar", together with DUP "Petrovac", the coalition Democrats, DF, URA, SDP, DEMOS and SNP put it out of power immediately after taking power in 2017. For two full years in the belt from Avala to Zavala and the narrow part along only high-class hotels could be built on the beach in Petrovac. However, after the lifting of the moratorium - the expansion of construction followed. The second attempt to introduce a moratorium, after dozens of approvals for the construction of residential buildings, villas and apartments for the market, failed in October last year, which led to the biggest crisis in the ruling coalition at the time - Democrats, DF, Montenegro, URA, DEMOS and SDP.
The coalition practically split after Džaković initiated the ban on construction in Bečići - at a stormy parliamentary session, the proposal was supported by 12 more councilors - eight from Democrats, three from Montenegro and one from URA, while councilors from DPS, SD, one from DF, while the remaining four DF councilors and independent Goran Pejović abstained.
At that time, the rift within the coalition was called by Democrat councilor and former mayor Dragan Krapović as a victory for the construction mafia... Eight months later, Džaković justified the decision to sign the initiatives of Montenegro and DPS to remove Mayor Marko Carević and Speaker of Parliament Krsto Radović in his first statement that DF and the Democrats apply criminal planning documents.
And while the crisis lasts for two months, and the administration of the new mayor Nikola Divanović (DPS) is fighting for the settlement of accounts, the short period until the election and the turbulence in the city are used by numerous builders - to obtain a building permit, because despite the great crisis caused by the pandemic - the construction business the only one blooming.
Both planning documents illegal
One of the reasons why both planning documents would be invalidated is that both were illegally enacted and expired six years ago.
"Vijesti" last year, referring to a document that "surfaced" from the archives of the Municipality, announced that a key planning document - Amendments to the DUP "Budva - Center", which is responsible for urban chaos and construction, was adopted in violation of the law. solitaires and towers in the most attractive part of the tourism metropolis. The developer of the plan - the project bureau "Del Projekt" from Budva, informed the Municipality of Budva and the Ministry of Sustainable Development in writing nine years ago that the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, Professor Miodrag Ralević, who was entrusted with the design, had not submitted the Draft Plan for their review and that " they don't know if it was done in accordance with the Law and the program task".
Despite the warnings of "Part of the project", the Assembly of the Municipality of Budva in August 2011 adopted amendments to the DUP "Budva - Center", and the relevant Ministry also gave the green light.
This enabled drastic changes in the coastal area and Budva was practically transformed into a city of towers.
It all started with the arrival of the new city DPS authority in 2005, which decided to change Budva. In October 2008, the controversial DUP "Budva centar" was adopted, which was valid for five years.
The development was entrusted to Ralević's Faculty of Architecture, which offered four concepts for the development of Budva - a coastal city model, a compact city model, a Garden City model and a City of Towers model.
Of the proposed solutions, the City of Towers was accepted - modeled after the tourist centers of Vancouver and Long Beach.
However, it did not take long to change the plan, so the Municipality of Budva only two and a half years later decided to change and supplement that DUP. Although at first it seemed that the changes would only apply to a few smaller locations, in reality it was quite different - the number of storeys is being increased on numerous plots on Slovenska beach, the edges of Mogren beach and meeting the locals, behind whom there was a construction lobby , to draw complexes of buildings on their estates.
According to the wish of the investor and for his own pocket
Numerous frauds followed the preparation of the planning document, and even during the DPS government officials of that party publicly said that there are people in Budva who take money in order to plan and fulfill the wishes of investors.
It was similar with the DUP for Bečići, which was passed a decade ago, in violation of the law, but the then local DPS authorities and the Government did not pay attention to it, but issued permits and destroyed the place with one of the most beautiful beaches on the Montenegrin coast.
Back in 2011, the urban inspector of the then Ministry of Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection stated that the DUP "Bečići" was not adopted in accordance with the then Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction, and her minutes were published by "Vijesti" last year, after "emerged" from the archives of the Municipality.
The plan was made by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, headed by Ralević.
Many claim that Bečići has been turned into a construction mockery by that DUP, and the fact that it does not prescribe the number of floors as a binding but recommended parameter, shows that single-family houses were built where they do not belong.
The inspector found in the minutes that the Faculty of Architecture could not prepare a planning document, because no contract had been concluded.
The inspector notes that, despite everything, the Ministry of Spatial Planning approved the planning document at the end of December 2008.
On December 30, the Municipal Assembly of Budva, with the votes of the then coalition led by the DPS, adopted the DUP "Bečići".
With the amendments and additions to the DUP "Bečići", even more intensive construction is planned - as much as 3,3 million square meters of residential, business and hotel capacities.
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