VIDEO | Architect Pavlovska: Violence from the capital, with a vulgar profit, is not a way for a quality urban solution
Danica Pavlovska, architect, urban planner and commentator on urban living on Monday sent an open letter to the mayor of the City of Skopje, in which he informs her that it does not work the participatory body although it formally exists, as well as the meaning of this body.
- At the beginning of the mandate, every politician should have a vision. My address has a benevolent note, it is about knowledge that can be used. We live this time with our normalcy which it is not. The participatory body provided at the local level should participate in decision-making, but not as an imperative. That body exists, but functions formally, and should be very important for all heads of local self-government. Transparency and inclusiveness are implied. I am a member of a participatory body of the municipality of Centar and I want to make an impact on the administration and the municipality and the city of Skopje, says Pavlovska for Utrinski briefing.
-GUP is very important, it refers to the well-being of the inhabitants of the city. It expires in 022 and essential work needs to be started. For that we need census data and new knowledge, such as climate change and energy efficiency. The GUP is certainly late, so in that sense is my address, to do something better, she explains.
- I suggest to the mayor, she should decide for herself who would be some kind of city architect as a body, Pavlovska suggests.
Holiday Inn, why is it a problem?
- This is an attack on the planning system and the plan has no legitimacy. Lifestyle is something else, the planner needs to adapt to the needs. If the detailed urban plan is wrong, if there is no traffic solution we have a problem. All parameters of the GUP are broken, twice or more, both in terms of population rate and construction rate. Everything that has been adopted can be changed, but according to a legal procedure, says Pavlovska.
What is the compromise between investors in a central city location that has not been used for years?
- The path to a quality solution is not violence from the capital, with a vulgar profit by ignoring procedures and ignoring the public interest. Nobody asks the citizens. I have proposed and am proposing a referendum. Let the citizens know what is offered to them and let them decide, he says Danica Pavlovska, architect, urban planner and commentator on urban living.
