When the court grants the lawsuit, Ústí will recreate the zoning plan

Ústí nad Labem - If the regional court grants the complaint about the territorial plan of Ústí nad Labem in all four points, it is possible that the plan will need to be created anew. This is the opinion of people from the association Stop the Tunnels, who filed the complaint against the territorial plan approved at the end of 2011.
    The complaint about the territorial plan was filed by a group of affected citizens in April 2012 to the Regional Court in Ústí nad Labem. The court only upheld their complaint in two out of four points. Therefore, the plaintiffs filed a cassation complaint to the Supreme Administrative Court. At the end of October, it ruled in their favor and returned the complaint for a new hearing to the regional court. However, the reasoning of the ruling of the Supreme Administrative Court is not yet in the hands of the association.
    The plaintiffs proposed four fundamental changes to the territorial plan of the regional city: the cancellation of the system of tunnels and bridges, the cancellation of the bypass of the village of Strážky, the cancellation of all new building plots on more than 600 different areas, and the cancellation of the designation of three plots in lower Střekov, where an investor wants to build a shopping center. However, the regional court only upheld them in the second and fourth points in July 2012. It is now theoretically possible that it could also grant the remaining two proposals.
    "If the other two points were to fall as well, I think it opens up a clear path to a new territorial plan. The traffic concept, building plots, and their associated developability or undevelopability are the cornerstones of the territorial plan," said Jan Kvapil, the chairman of the association, at today's press conference. He admitted, however, that it is still just speculation.
    The removal of the bypass system of tunnels and bridges from the territorial plan has been promised by the city itself. "However, if the court were to grant us the cancellation of the developable areas, there would truly be nothing left of the territorial plan of the city of Ústí nad Labem; it would be absolutely unusable. Then I am convinced that a new territorial plan would have to be approved," confirmed David Daduč from the association, agreeing with Kvapil's opinion. The future fate of the Ústí territorial plan would then likely be decided by the council.
    "If the regional court ultimately cancels those two points in the territorial plan, we will certainly appeal to the city leadership to create a new territorial plan much more responsibly and, above all, under more public oversight and transparency," noted Jana Komínová from the association Stop the Tunnels.
    The association was formed specifically in connection with the birth of the territorial plan. It was founded by people who claimed that the system of tunnels and bridges envisaged by the territorial plan would devalue or directly threaten their properties.