Provisional Schedule of Development of Okhta Centre Territory Passed Through Public Discussions15.01.2008Public discussions of the provisional schedule of development (PSD) of the territory which is intended for construction of the Okhta Centre community and business area were conducted in St. Petersburg on Monday.
A provisional schedule of development (PSD) of the territory bounded by the embankment of the Bolshaya Neva River, the Malookhtinsky Bridge, the extension of Tsimlyanskaya Street, Bolsheokhtinsky Prospect, Yakornaya Street, Prospect Energetikov, Prospect Shaumyana, and Pomyalovskogo Street, was presented for the public discussion.
The representatives of Krasnogvardeyskiy District administration, Architecture and City-Planning Committee of St. Petersburg, and Okhta Community and Business Centre, Ltd. answered questions that were asked both in the course of the public discussions and during the exposition prior to the discussion. Over 700 people were present at the public discussions.
PSD layout suggests density and purpose of development as well as infrastructure. Admissible types of utilization of property units as well as the architectural and construction parameters of the development are specified in the specific land use plan of the General Layout of St. Petersburg. The limit height of buildings on the territory of the land plot is not fixed by the given PSD.
On the whole the public discussion was constructive and without provocations. Viktor Polishchuk, Deputy Chairman of Architecture and City-Planning Committee, presented the documents for the residents of the district and all interested parties to consider. He noted that the provisional schedule of development determined the specific land use.
“The present document does not consider property and legal aspects; it deals directly with utilization of a land plot accordingly to the allotted zones. The document contains a full list of functions for utilization of the land plot by developers as well as a list of functions which are subject to consideration when occur,” Viktor Polishchuk observed.
According to Viktor Polishchuk, the presented provisional schedule of development was reviewed by experts and their opinion was examined by the committee specialists to consider each comment.
The residents of the district took a special interest in the transport problem which could appear since the advent of a big community and business center as well as in prospects for the blocks of flats located near the site intended for construction of Okhta Centre. Pyotr Luchin, who represented Okhta Community and Business Center, Ltd, and representatives of Architecture and City-Planning Committee presented the plans for the development of new traffic interchanges, reconstruction of the existing thoroughfares, construction of parking places, and plans of taking the transport away from the business center. They also assured that Okhta Centre construction project does not provide for demolish any block of flats and to settle the residents in new places.
