When implementing the urban planning reform, it is important to preserve the powers of local communities. This was stated by the ambassadors of the G7 countries and published a photo from a meeting with the Minister for the Development of Communities, Territories and Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov and the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Mikhail Fedorov.

“G7 Ambassadors were interested to hear about the implementation of the urban reform, which we will continue to monitor. When implementing the reform, it is important to preserve the powers of local communities,” the message says..

In turn, Kubrakov said that during a meeting with Fedorov and G7 ambassadors, they discussed the urban planning reform, which “changes the approach to construction and introduces digitalization”.

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Recall that the petition demanding to veto bill 5655 on reforming the sphere of urban planning gained the required number of votes in record time..

The National Union of Architects of Ukraine and individual architects who are now defending Ukraine have already spoken out against the bill. Deputy Head of the NSAU Chamber of Architecture Anna Kiriy called the bill a "

The Association of Cities of Ukraine submitted its proposals to the profile committee of the Verkhovna Rada for the second reading of the bill No. 5655. As PSA Executive Director Alexander Slobozhan noted, the lack of clearly defined norms in the draft law increases possible corruption and nullifies the idea of \u200b\u200bdigitalization of the permitting system in urban planning..

Mayors of 39 Ukrainian cities also made a general statement. The mayors noted that the legislative initiative creates conditions for the removal of the state and local government from control over urban planning activities.

The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption also has questions about the legislative initiative, where they came to the conclusion that the document does not comply with the Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2021-2025. And the Main Legal Department of the Verkhovna Rada noted that a number of provisions of the document are unconstitutional.

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, Georgy Mogilny analyzes in the article “Autonomous Building Republic. Facts without myths.