Buildings with 20 Floors Can Be Built Along Ljubljanska Avenue

The City Council of Zagreb today accepted the proposal for amendments to the Urban Development Plan (UDP) of the Free Customs Zone Jankomir, which will allow the construction of buildings up to 20 floors along Ljubljanska Avenue, east of the Bauhaus building, and has forwarded it for public discussion.

In the economic zone along Ljubljanska Avenue, between the gas station and the green area near Staro Savišće, hotel, business, and commercial facilities are to be built on an area of 1.3 hectares. The City Council of Zagreb also accepted the conclusions of the substantiated and documented proposals for amendments to the General Urban Plan (GUP) of the City of Zagreb and Sesvete at today’s session and forwarded them to the City Assembly for adoption. This is a novelty related to the new Spatial Planning and Construction Act, which requires that all submitted initiatives and proposals that have appeared in their Office before the start of work on the GUP be processed, stated Jadranka Veselić Bruvo, the head of the City Office for Strategic Planning and Development, after the session. She noted that this is the first phase in the work on the new draft proposal for amendments to the GUP and that the entire process must be completed by the end of the year.

Head Veselić Bruvo reported that there are 416 initiatives for the GUP of the City of Zagreb and 99 for the GUP of Sesvete, and that these are “classic” initiatives – legalizations, conversions of green areas into construction zones or mixed-use zones. The City Council of Zagreb also accepted the proposal for a resolution on the conclusion of a settlement regarding the exchange of real estate, which will be concluded by the City of Zagreb and the company Saxum Zagreb d.o.o. for the construction of Nikola Andrić Street with the accompanying communal infrastructure next to the new Museum of Contemporary Art in the New Zagreb neighborhood of Središće. It also accepted two resolutions on the abolition of the public good status on certain cadastral parcels in the cadastral municipality of Zaprudski otok for the construction of Nikola Andrić Street.

The report on the work of the Department of Communal Inspection from January 1 to June 30 of this year was also accepted, which states, among other things, that compared to previous years, more cases have been resolved, that the results and the situation on the ground have improved, and that more mandatory misdemeanor orders have been issued. The Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić, announced that starting October 1, a list of all 17 city districts, ranked by tidiness results, will be displayed on the wall of the City Council. The district that will be last on the list three times in a row will have its communal inspectors changed (rotated), and if there is no progress in three months, the head of the communal inspectors will resign.

In response to a journalist’s question about whether they managed to agree on who will pay for parking for members of parliament, Bandić replied that the director of Zagreb Parking is negotiating with the secretariats of the City of Zagreb, the Croatian Parliament, and the Government of the Republic of Croatia. There is nothing free in the city; someone has to pay – either the MPs, the Parliament, the Government, or the employees of the Government – the money must be in the account, said Bandić.

Commenting on a journalist’s inquiry about Prime Minister Ivo Sanader’s initiative to reduce the salaries of directors of loss-making companies and whether the City is considering this, Bandić replied that the directors of Zagreb companies, namely the Holding and its subsidiaries, have much lower salaries than the directors of state-owned companies. (H)