The heads of 39 Ukrainian cities, villages and settlements made a categorical joint statement on bill No. 5655 and the so-called urban reform, which can be adopted without discussion today, December 13. The statement was published on the website of the Association of Cities of Ukraine and signed personally by the mayors.

" We cannot allow the adoption of this document in the version that exists now,"

The signatories of the statement name a number of good reasons for rejecting the bill No. 5655:.

creates conditions for monopoly centralized admission of builders to the market, and those who enter will be allowed to create a private body for monitoring urban planning activities without the influence of the state or local government;

control and supervision of local governments are destroyed by replacing them with monitoring, which contains only supervision of unauthorized construction;

a construction amnesty is introduced and reimbursement of construction costs to unauthorized developers from the local budget;

the rights of land owners are violated, because there will be no responsibility for unauthorized construction;

the ability of the public to control the legality of development and influence illegal construction is eliminated;

the achievements of the decentralization reform are destroyed, the entire industry is centralized and freed from real control.

" We demand the observance of transparent procedures and anti-corruption norms, ensuring the safety of residents, preserving the achievements of the decentralization reform in the bill and the need to finalize the draft,"

It also notes the need for a broad public discussion, consultations with professional environments.

" This is how a democratic civil society works. Not vice versa,"

The statement was signed, in particular, by the mayors of Kyiv, as well as regional centers - Lviv, Khmelnitsky, Ternopil, Chernihiv, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhgorod, Nikolaev, Lutsk.

Recall that bill No. 5655, one of the initiators of which was the people's deputy from the Servant of the People party Olena Shulyak, who is called the lobbyist of this document in favor of developers, causes from concern to rejection. The Association of Ukrainian Cities Sounds the Alarm. According to the NACP, numerous novelties of the bill are aimed at the complete destruction of any effective liability of developers for unauthorized construction. The bill was subjected to crushing criticism in the Main Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada. Anna Kiriy, Deputy Chairman of the Architectural Chamber of Ukraine, spoke on behalf of the architectural community. Even the Servant of the People faction did not agree with this project.

In addition, on December 13, Ukrainian architects, now serving in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, appealed to people's deputies with a call not to support the scandalous bill No. 5655.

By the way, in mid-November, the SBU conducted searches at the National Union of Architects of Ukraine.

Deputy Chairman of the NSAU Architectural Chamber Anna Kiriy called it "

Tensions between supporters and opponents of the bill have reached a peak. The Verkhovna Rada is already offering to sit down at the negotiating table live.

How the urban planning reform proposed by the authorities can turn into the formation of a building autonomy, where civil society is assigned only the role of a spectator, read on ZN. UA in Georgy Mogilny's article - " Facts without myths.