The municipal councilors of the Party “Action and Solidarity” (PAS) said they will draft a decision on the working out of a zonal urban development plan and will propose it for public debates by July 1. This will lay out clear urban development norms for the historical center of Chisinau, which is situated between the streets Alexei Mateevici, Mihai Viteazul, Ivan Zaikin, Albișoara, Cheiului, Izmail, Ștefan cel Mare, and Ciuflea. By the same draft decision, they will demand to institute a moratorium of at most a year on all the construction and demolition works in the historical center, except for those that are ongoing and are legal, IPN reports.
Vasile Grădinaru, who heads the PAS group on the Chisinau Municipal Council, said the designing, debating and adoption of a new zonal urban development plan can last for up to a year. Until then, a moratorium should be imposed on the issuing of permissive documents for building and demolition works in the historical center of Chisinau and on the construction works where the permissive documents weren’t adjusted to the legal provisions.
According to Sergiu Tofilat, municipal councilor of the Sociopolitical Movement “New Force”, the historical center of the city develops chaotically. Multistory buildings that do not match the setting are erected there. The historical monuments are not protected and the historical nucleus is ignored. The harmonious, uniform development of the historical center should be ensured.
PAS councilor Zinaida Popa said the illegal construction works are the result of “criminal” cooperation between representatives of the municipality of Chisinau and ill-intentioned developers that argue there are no regulations or the existing regulations are outdated.
PAS MP Vladimir Bolea said that last spring he proposed a bill to institute a moratorium on the authorization and continuation of building works in the municipality, inside residential quarters if the distance between the new building and the existing buildings does not exceed the height of the highest building. At that stage, construction companies erected buildings illegally in yards and parks. The bill was rejected.
