The Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property, Janko Odović, assessed that construction should be vetoed in a large part of the area, construction should be limited on the coast, but also in the north, and the opinions of the profession, that is, the Environmental Protection Agency, should be more respected.
Odović said this at the round table "Spatial Planning and European Integration: How to a Sustainable Plan", organized by the Center for Investigative Journalism of Montenegro (CIN-CG).
The president of CIN-CG Milka Tadić Mijović assessed that the three-decade practice of destroying space must be stopped.
"All our research has shown that everything is a planned chaos that suits someone. Spatial planning has turned into a money launderer for criminal circles, and the most beautiful spaces in the country from Budva to Durmitor have been destroyed... Even the governments after DPS did not do enough to protect space and nature. Governments are changing, but the devastation continues," believes Tadić Mijović.
Director of the Environmental Protection Agency, Milan Gazdić, pointed out that the Spatial Plan of Montenegro is the most important document after the Constitution and that it should be viewed as such if we are an ecological country.
"We must stop Fanton's public debates, learn from our mistakes, so that we no longer cross mined terrain from one UNESCO area to another and build in protected areas," emphasized Gazdić.
The executive director of Expeditio architects, Biljana Gligorić, said that since 2002 there have been warnings that the status of Kotor is threatened. She assessed that it is the decision-makers who really influence our space and that there are wrong policies and visions of development.
Zenepa Lika, architect and executive director of the Ulcinj NGO MSJA, also assessed that the Constitution is being misused and spaces that are a public good are being destroyed.
At the round table, Sonja Dragović and Jelena Rabrenović from the group of architects KANA (Who ako ne arhitekt) presented a publication about the devastation of Kolašin, stating that the destruction of that city started in 2008, and experienced expansion through the program of economic citizenship.
"Out of 12 infrastructure projects, seven are in Kolašin, and the infrastructure cannot support it," KANA assessed.
The round table was organized by CIN-CG as part of the project "Is there a plan? Spatial (non)planning, urbanism and infrastructure projects in Montenegro".
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