The prefect of the capital, Tony Greble, will meet on Wednesday with the general mayor of the capital, Nikusor Dan, to clarify the issue of zonal city plans regarding the protected areas of the capital.

• “Finally, the general mayor changed his normal behavior to a more normal attitude and invited us tomorrow for a discussion, for an analysis of several responsible people in this area – because I am not the only one who has responsibilities in this area. .
• It is also about the Minister of Development, the Advisor on Culture and Cults from the President, the Rector of the University of Architecture “Ion Minca”, the President of the Order of Architects of Romania, invited, so we hope to clarify this aspect,” the prefect said in a statement to the press, according to Agerpres.

The prefect said that he wants to know whether there are original documents, plans, and consent decrees regarding PUZs in the archives of the capital city hall.

• “Does Bucharest have a protected zone PUZ, 86, which is said to have been adopted in 2000? The discussion ends at this point. Or they don’t exist, and then we attack in court when it’s convenient for us, when it’s not.” We are not satisfied, PUZ. Some are good from the point of view of the mayor, some are not. Such a discretionary attitude is not good.
• That is, if they exist and have been adopted by the General Council of the Municipality of Bucharest, until others are adopted in their place, they remain in force. But now they have been rediscovered by the genmer, who in the fall of this year, before October, appealed to the State Construction Inspectorate with a request to check the legality of the adoption of the PUZ on Primaveria Boulevard No. 1. 1, having doubts that it was legally accepted,” said the prefect.

Tony Greblo noted that during the inspections, the ISC asked City Hall for the original documents related to the PUZs – protected zones adopted at the General Council meeting in 2000, but the PMB was told that it did not have the relevant documentation.

• “To everyone’s surprise, the mayor’s office reported that those documents are not in the archive of the institution, and this is where the suspicion began that they do not actually exist. On Wednesday, we will see what documents the mayor will present, and that’s it. I don’t have the very goal of attacking for the sake of attacking some administrative acts.
• It would not have occurred to me to check the legality of the adoption of some acts in 2000, i.e. 23 years ago, if the genmer himself had not turned to the State Construction Inspectorate with a request to check the legality of the adoption of that PUZ, this PUZ is probably part of the category of PUZs that the general does not like the mayor because there are other PUZs that he likes,” he said, as quoted by Agerpres.

The general mayor of the capital Nikušor Dan said two days ago that the prefect of the municipality of Bucharest intends to attack the PUZ protected areas in court, which would allow the document to be suspended, which would lead to the legalization of some construction works. illegal construction in protected territories and construction of other structures in these territories without applying their special norms.

“The Prefect of the Municipality of Bucharest intends to challenge in court the town planning regulations of the entire historical territory of the Municipality of Bucharest on February 6, 2023. In short, this means free blocks between buildings in the entire historical part of the capital. According to the law, if the prefect attacks any administrative act, he will be suspended pending trial,” Mayor Nikushor Dan said on Sunday.

According to him, the suspension of PUZs for protected areas will have two main consequences:

• “First of all, the regime of protection of historical areas is disappearing. For example, an investor who has built blocks in the Vila Filipescu garden on Aviatorior Boulevard will be able to ask the PMB to legalize those blocks. And any owner of a building in the historical district of Bucharest will be able to ask the city hall to demolish that building. And if the mayor refuses, he will sue him and say that the building is not protected by regulations.
• The second important consequence is that all authorization projects under development, including those for government institutions, investments through PNRR, schools, hospitals, etc., must resume the authorization procedure at the level of the urban planning certificate. Because the permit should no longer be related to the regulation of the historical territory, protective zones of the PUZ, but should be related to the General Town Planning Plan,” Nikushor Dan explained.

The mayor-general accused the prefect of wanting to attack the conservation zone PUAs now, 23 years after they were approved, because it was the first time the city hall had protected the built heritage and it had worried developers.

• “We are in an absurd situation when the prefect of the capital wants to attack after 23 years the decree of 2000, on the basis of which several tens of thousands of permits were issued in the entire historical part of Bucharest.
• Reason? For the first time, this resolution was applied by the local administration. The current administration has rejected several hundred applications for permits, inter-residential blocks, green space blocks, because they did not meet the regulation of conservation development. Moreover, he reported to the DNA for gross violations of this provision.
• This worried the real estate speculators, who, together with the people from the administration who supported them over time, began to exert pressure and attack the exact source, the document they all violated, the regulation of the historical area of ​​Bucharest,” explained Nikušor Dan.

The Mayor General stated that real estate speculators have found two allies in this effort, the Prefecture of the Municipality of Bucharest and the State Building Inspection, institutions that, instead of protecting the public interest, protect speculative private interests.

• “To be more precise, the head of the State Construction Inspectorate sent an appeal to the prefect on December 14, 2022, in which it is said that the regulation of the historical area of ​​the “Proteyate” PUZ is illegal, without a preliminary inspection of the documentation and without asking the point of view of the mayor’s office. The ISC claims that the document it used to check authorization for 23 years should have been updated in 2001 without first being asked. In addition, the ISC uses paragraphs copied from the address of an association specializing in the protection of controversial investments in Bucharest.
• On January 26, the prefect sent me an appeal that arrived at City Hall on February 1, in which he urgently requested all documents related to the December 2000 General Council meeting that approved the PUG, as well as the PUZ Built-in Protected zone. In particular, the prefect asked the PMB to provide him within a few days approximately 3 cubic meters of documents that correspond to the original, otherwise, on February 5, he will attack in court the provisions on the protected development zones of the PUZ.
• The prefect’s official motivation for the decision to attack PUZ in court? Because “there are suspicions in various circles.” For this absurd reason, he wants to undermine everything, including international conventions to which Romania is a party,” said Nikušor Dan.

In connection with HotNews.ro, the prefect of the capital Toni Greble said that he has not made a decision whether he will attack the PUZ that protect the old buildings in Bucharest, and he is waiting for the original documents from the mayor general. , Nicusor Dan to see if they exist. PUZs were approved in 2000, and the prefect says that there are suspicions in the public space that when they were approved by the Decision of the General Council, the annexes would not have been approved. “If they exist, that debate ends,” Greble says.

• “I also said in the letter I sent to Mr. Nikushor Dan, giving him a deadline by which he should send me the annexes to the 2000 Decision on which the SMPs of the protected areas will be based.
• I’m waiting today until he sends them to me, when he sends them to me I’ll look at them, first of all I’ll see if they exist legally or not, and then depending on that answer I’ll look at them and we’ll make a decision, but I am now waiting to see if the Mayor-General will send them to me. If he doesn’t send them to me, then something is wrong.
• This is a suspicion, and I asked the mayor to send certified copies precisely to remove it. They don’t even have to send them to me. If he calls and invites to the city hall to see what they have, that they are bulky, I will go. And if they exist, this discussion ends,” said Tony Greble, contacted by HotNews.r