Petro Olenych, Director of the Kyiv City State Administration's (KCSA) Department of Land Resources and a candidate for the position of Deputy Head of the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA), accused the State Geocadastre (Gosgeokadastre) of delaying the process of approving Kyiv's city boundaries by the Verkhovna Rada. The official did not mention that the corresponding land management project was "rejected" by the Kyiv Regional Council, but confirmed that due to the lack of approval of the capital's boundaries, neighboring settlements are disposing of Kyiv residents' land. He promised to initiate legal proceedings over this matter, but only after Kyiv's boundaries are approved.
KV learned about this during today's meeting of the Kyiv City Council.
At this meeting, the deputy corps approved the appointment of Petro Olenych as deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration.
Before this, Olenich had to answer a number of questions from deputies, including one on the topic of Kyiv's lack of approved borders.
The official stated that “the Kyiv border actually exists.”
"It was found in the archives of the highest executive authorities. It's a separate, specialized archive: with map materials, signatures, and seals. These are vast volumes. Everything was compiled and submitted to the State Geocadastre. For a year now, the State Geocadastre has been refusing to include Kyiv's existing border in the State Geocadastre," he told the deputies.
According to Olenich, under current legislation, only an extract from the State Geocadastre (Gosgeokadastre) can confirm the existence of Kyiv's border. "The management there is constantly changing, and no management decision has been made yet," the department director said, adding that "paper correspondence" is ongoing between the State Geocadastre and the city government.
"And the new border expansion, approved by the Kyiv City Council, cannot be approved by the Verkhovna Rada simply because it requires documents on the existing border. And the State Geocadastre hasn't yet bothered to issue any documents on it," Olenych stated.
Petro Olenich also confirmed that "individual satellites," specifically the Kozynsky Village Council in the Obukhiv District, had distributed Kyiv land and called this a problem. "Once we finalize all the legal issues, the city will litigate these matters," he said, without specifying the specific legal issues involved.
According to Olenych, the State Geocadastre's delays in approving Kyiv's boundaries are negatively impacting the state assessment of Kyiv's land valuation. This is because the assessment requires the city's area to be determined, which, according to the head of the Kyiv City State Administration's land department, "does not correspond to the area once submitted by 'certain officials' in letters."
As a reminder, in December 2019, the Kyiv Regional Council (KRC) denied the Kyiv City State Administration's approval of a land management project to establish (change) the boundaries of the city of Kyiv, something Petro Olenych omitted in his speech in the Kyiv City Council meeting hall on March 11, 2021. The KRC then wrote that, clearly, the capital's taxpayers' money had been wasted on developing this document; everything would have to be redone, first coordinating with residents of the affected areas. It would also be a good idea to figure out where the capital's officials "lost" approximately 1 hectares of land belonging to the city community. According to the current General Plan of Kyiv, the capital's area is 83,6 hectares, while according to officials led by Vitali Klitschko, it currently covers only 82,6 hectares.
Prior to this, the Kyiv City Council approved a land management project prepared under the leadership of Petro Olenych for the expansion of Kyiv's borders. It proposed that Kyiv would "expand" by almost 3 hectares, including the Brovarsky, Boryspil, Obukhiv, and Kyivo-Svyatoshinsky districts, the city of Vyshhorod, and the Irpin region of the Kyiv Oblast. However, the capital was willing to give up only 55 hectares to the oblast.
It should be noted that Petro Olenych has headed the Department of Land Resources of the Kyiv City State Administration since July 27, 2018.
Since September 18, 2014, this department has been headed by Alexey Polischuk, who was appointed to this position without a competition.
Serhiy Zavadskyi was appointed acting head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre on March 3, 2021. In December 2020, following an investigation, the current Minister of Agrarian Policy was dismissed from his position as head of the State Service for Geodesy, Cartography, and Cadastre (and previously, as an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on agricultural issues, who lobbied for the "land law" in the Rada). Roman Leshchenko.
Mykola Tereshchenko is acting as head of the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Kyiv Oblast. Denys Gonchar is heading the Main Directorate of the State Geocadastre in Kyiv.
Photo: KV
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