The Kyiv City Council is preparing to grant over 10 hectares of land to the Spetszhylfond municipal enterprise, ostensibly for development by ATO veterans and their families in the village of Bykivnia in Kyiv's Desnyansky district. The authorities are thus seeking to legalize the illegal land acquisition in the forest, which the city authorities have been practicing since 2007, in violation of the 2020 General Plan.
KV learned of this from a post on the Facebook page of urban planning expert and full member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture Viktor Gleba.
"The land grabbing there began back under Omelchenko. And now, only Pavlo Ryabikin (Kyiv's First Deputy Mayor – ed.) and Volodymyr Prokopov (Chairman of the Kyiv City Council's Standing Committee on Urban Development, Architecture, and Land Use – ed.) can openly divide the Bykivnia Forest, using ATO soldiers and widows and mothers of the fallen as cover. One gets the impression that they were appointed overseers and are now overseeing the grabbing of 170 hectares of this very forest near the Kyiv Radio Transmitting Center (73 Radystiv Street). Land here was allocated starting in 2007, despite the current General Plan for 2020, which designates all of this as forest land," the expert stated.
DRAFT SOLUTION
The Kyiv City Council may adopt a decision "On the allocation of land plots for housing construction for ATO participants and for social housing construction in the village of Bykivnya in the Desnyansky district of Kyiv to the municipal enterprise for the maintenance and operation of special-purpose housing stock, Spetszhilfond, as early as tomorrow."
According to the document, the Spetszhilfond municipal enterprise will receive land plots with a total area of 10,6646 hectares for permanent use: plot 1 with an area of 2,3000 hectares (cadastral number 8000000000: 62: 038: Oi13), plot 2 with an area of 5,0000 hectares (cadastral number 8000000000: 62: 505: 0018), plot 3 with an area of 3,3646 hectares (cadastral number 8000000000: 62: 523: 0001). The plots are intended for the construction of housing (low-rise - up to 4 above-ground floors) for ATO participants (wounded and families of those killed in the ATO zone), and for social and domestic construction.
However, Viktor Gleba insists that this decision is nothing more than one large corruption scheme. Everything is being done, he claims, solely to "plunder the forest," as the next slide demonstrates.
Mr. Gleba emphasizes that the village of Bykivnya is six times smaller than the allocated land plot. He suggests comparing the territory offered to ATO participants with the number of plots already allocated there (3-4 plots per person). Below is a map from the State Land Cadastre of Ukraine. According to the expert, there is no room for registered pseudo-ATO participants here.
"The 10 hectares of forest allocated to ATO participants is merely a cover for the illegal plundering of 160 hectares of Bykivnia Forest from 2004 to 2014. The current 2020 general plan lists this area as an existing forest transitioning to a potential forest (forest category change). Chief architects, environmentalists, land surveyors, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Service, and other officials had no right to issue permits for the conversion of these 160 hectares of forest for the development of individual residential buildings. All documents for the 10-hectare street plots in the village of Bykivnia in Kyiv are already registered in the state land cadastre," says Gleba.
According to him, the Kyiv General Development Plan for 2020 is currently the only valid and legal document, and the current Kyiv government continues to lobby for business interests and cover up fraud in land management and urban development, ignoring the opinions of public experts and activists.
As a reminder, urban development is regulated by the Constitution of Ukraine, the Civil, Commercial, and Land Codes of Ukraine, the laws of Ukraine "On the General Planning Scheme for the Territory of Ukraine," "On the Fundamentals of Urban Development," "On Architectural Activity," "On the Comprehensive Reconstruction of Outdated Housing Blocks," "On Land Management," and other legal acts that stipulate legal liability for violations of laws, including disregard for the city's General Plan. However, Kyiv City Council officials seem little concerned about this.
Ulyana Markova, KyivVlast
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