The Laishevsky knot will be untied, not cut
The day before, at a press approach after the investment council, the head of the Tatarstan Investment Development Agency, Talia Minullina, again raised the problem of misunderstanding among investors of the policy pursued by Tatarstan regarding the implementation of the master plan.
Talia Minullina: “For every investment project, Rustam Nurgalievich turns to the Institute of Spatial Planning, because now it is very important that we find new approaches. The Kazan agglomeration has already developed a master plan so that we can resolve issues with urban planning documentation, master plans, land use regulations, and types of permitted use for investment projects and do not contradict the general development plan.
We recently had such a case: a private investor wanted to build an industrial facility on a certain site in the Laishevsky district, and we explained to him that according to the plan there should be a highway here. It is clear that in this case investors have to be told to move somewhere, because urban planning documentation and state plans should still be a priority over individual private initiatives.”
We remind you that last week Talia Ilgizovna held a meeting on the creation of a master plan for the Laishevsky district with the participation of the head of the district, the institute of spatial planning and representatives of ministries and departments of Tatarstan.
Talia Minullina: “This is extremely inconvenient. Investors often select sites that do not correspond to the VRI, category, master plan, or general plan. We change all the documentation for projects, and this is not a quick process. And as a result, as feedback on the efforts made, we hear that we are working slowly. That is, first, investors choose plots that are as cheap as possible without utility networks, then we carry out all this and in the end we receive bad feedback.
Today we will work on ways to avoid this scheme. To do this, we need to prepare a pool of land plots that the Agency will offer to the investor depending on the republic’s needs for the implementation of the proposed project in a particular location, the same glamping sites, hospitals. And an important point is that there should be no network issues in these areas, because now we are building this for every project.
Also, through this work, we need to select a pool of promising land plots to which we will install the missing networks and to which we are confident that investors will enter. So that it would be beneficial for the republic to conduct networks. Tatarstan’s dependence on the investor’s decision to implement a project on the site is fundamentally wrong. We, as a government body, must take the initiative ourselves and invite Rais to install utility networks in certain territories, depending on their prospects. So that the Agency offers the investor convenient sites in advance.
Now it solves many problems for each project, creates an interdepartmental working group, but the solution is on the surface - there is an institute of spatial planning, and it is its task to create an economic balance, taking into account the costs of Tatarstan for the installation of utility networks. Thus, we need to determine what concept we choose and what we want to create where, what objects we need.”
