Whether closed terraces of catering facilities will be allowed in Nikšić will be known after today's session of the Nikšić Municipal Assembly, where the only item on the agenda is a citizen's initiative signed by about 3.000 Nikšić residents.
The initiative requests that the Program of temporary facilities on the territory of the municipality of Nikšić, for the period 2024-2029. year, on Trg slobode and Njegoševa Street, in addition to catering facilities, closed catering terraces are planned.
The President of the Municipality gave his opinion on the submitted citizens' initiative Marko Kovacevic, and stated that the draft of the Temporary Facilities Program does not provide for the installation of closed catering terraces in the first zone, because the common position of the representatives of the local administration bodies, involved in the creation of the Program, is that there are no appropriate spatial and urban planning conditions.
"During the preparation of the draft program, numerous oral initiatives of the citizens of Nikšić were taken into account, which related to the dissatisfaction caused by the impossibility of free movement in the central city core due to the occupation of public space, which hinders the unhindered movement of pedestrians as well as people with reduced mobility. mobility and people with disabilities," Kovačević wrote in his statement on the submitted civil initiative.
The competent Secretariat for Spatial Planning and Environmental Protection and the Planning Board also gave their opinions, which are also negative.
The program of temporary facilities on the territory of the municipality of Nikšić, which was adopted in 2019, expired on August 1, while the new one, which needs to be adopted and is currently in the form of a draft, will be valid until 2029. The mentioned draft should soon be on public debate, and after that it will be sent to the competent institutions for approval.
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