Garage in Budva first appears in Dubovica

One of the key promises made by the administration that has been in power since the beginning of February Nikola Jovanovic is that during his term he will build several garages and thus solve the lack of parking spaces, one of the biggest problems facing Budva.

The Municipality took the first concrete step by announcing a public competition for the development of a conceptual architectural solution for a multi-storey public garage in the Dubovica settlement, one of the largest unplanned settlements in Budva, which has practically no free parking spaces, and intensive construction in recent years has further complicated the problem, especially during the season.

The competition is open until November 18th, and the competition jury is headed by the city's chief architect. Jelena Lazic.

As stated in the competition brief, the Dubovica settlement, located on the slopes of Dubovica Hill on the outskirts of the city, is facing unplanned construction.

"Recently, there has been intensive unplanned construction, an increase in the size, number of housing units and number of floors of buildings throughout the entire territory of the Dubovica settlement. The quality of the built stock is good, but due to the increase in population density, parking problems have arisen, especially in the summer period. Green areas have been reduced to a minimum, and in some parts there is also a problem with access to buildings. Intensive construction was not accompanied by appropriate infrastructure development, so housing standards were significantly impaired during the tourist season," states the document, which "Vijesti" had access to.

The construction of the garage is planned on a plot of 1.736 square meters, on extremely steep terrain.

According to urban planning and technical conditions, the multi-storey public garage will have a total gross construction area of ​​6.575 square meters with 251 garage spaces. Its number of floors will be an underground level, ground floor and five floors, or a basement, ground floor, four floors and an attic.

"High functionality and efficiency of the building's exterior and interior design are required. The building should be concrete in order to obtain the most rational communications with an emphasis on good use of space. The architecture, shape, dimensions, elements, color and materials should be brought into connection with the characteristics of local architecture transformed in a modern way," the competition states.

As "Vijesti" recently reported, Jovanović is also ready to build underground garages in the very heart of Budva, near the Old Town, near the "Avala" hotel, but also in the core of Petrovac, on plots owned by the "Budvanska rivijera" hotel group. In official letters he sent, which were published by "Vijesti", he presented this idea to the management of the largest Montenegrin hotel company, proposing that the Municipality purchase the attractive land.

Jovanović's eye was caught by a 1.487-square-meter plot next to the Avala hotel, 50 meters from the Old Town, which is currently the only green space in the very center of Budva.

After the privatization of “Avala”, the plot, which was urbanized and on which a multi-storey building was planned, remained in the ownership of HG “Budvanska rivijera” and is located in the hinterland of the parking lot in front of the “Mogren” hotel, owned by the Municipality of Budva. The first man of the city indicated that the Municipality plans to build an underground garage in order to preserve the green area.

Jovanović also sent a second letter to the Hotel Group, stating that the Municipality is interested in buying a plot of land in the center of Petrovac. This is a plot of land that was recently returned to HG “Budvanska rivijera” of 4.448 square meters, after the Podgorica company “Zetagranja” collected four million euros from the hotel company after a marathon court dispute, because the contract from 15 years ago, when it purchased the aforementioned land for the construction of hotel facilities, was not respected. The Municipality is also planning an underground garage at this location, in order to preserve the green area. VL

Jovanović promised 2.000 parking spaces

Upon taking over the position of Mayor of the Municipality, when he was announced in the local parliament in his Platform for Saving Budva, Jovanović stated that during his mandate he would build new garages with a total of 2.000 parking spaces.

“In the first year, at the Rozino location, we will submit an application for the construction of a new multi-storey garage with a total of 575 parking spaces. In the second year of the mandate, we will submit an application for the construction of a new multi-storey garage with 360 parking spaces. At the Dubovica location, we plan to build a multi-storey garage with 250 parking spaces. At the Red Building, we plan to build a modern underground garage with 300 spaces. Through the Temporary Facilities Program, at the locations near “Merita” and in the area of ​​the old bus station, we plan to build garages with capacities of 180 and 130 parking spaces. We will also affirm the possibility of building garages as a business idea through private initiative and private-public partnership, as well as increasing the capacity of existing parking lots. Through the development of a comprehensive traffic and parking study, we will arrange an additional number of parking spaces and enable payment with modern payment methods. The goal is to provide faster access and information to citizens and tourists at all times through the “Budva smart city” project by applying modern technologies, with the aim of reducing traffic "Let's solve the problem of illegal parking. The new "hawk's eye" system is planned to be used in the upcoming tourist season so that the competent services can regulate traffic order as efficiently as possible," Jovanović promised at the time.