Ilsur Metshin: “Reducing administrative barriers is the task of tasks for us”

(KZN.RU, November 14). Reducing administrative barriers is one of the main tasks in the work of the city authorities. Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, expressed this opinion at today's Business Monday in the course of discussions of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning.

“One of our priorities is reducing administrative barriers in all directions. It should be the task of the tasks for us that all procedures, relating to appeals of businessmen, citizens, businesses in Kazan, were transparent, understandable and passed as soon as possible”, said the Mayor.

“All documents that are being discussed, including development plan of land, predetermine the development of the capital for decades further, and such documents are not to be drawn on the knees, they must be calculated and professional”, said the Mayor of Kazan. “At the same time there should be a golden medium. It should not turn into a seven circles of hell”.

Vladimir Fomin, the head of Architecture and Urban Planning Department, said that more than 40 thousand documents have been received from e-government by their management for the 10 months of this year: it is 11% more compared to the same period last year and almost 2 times more than 5 years ago.

At the same time, almost 26,500 documents were received directly into the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning from the beginning of the year. This is 25% more compared to the same period last year and also more than 2 times more than in 2012.

In general, document management has more than doubled (112%), from 18 thousand 973 to 40 thousand 152 appeals over the past five years. The number of complaints, received by e-mail of the management, increased nearly 2.5 times over the same period.

Vladimir Fomin drew attention to the fact that citizens’ appeals are more than 47% of the 12 thousand 585 documents, directly received by the management this year. Appeals on harmonization passports of outdoor media take first place (16.8% of the total), the second - the assignment of addresses (11.4%), and the third - the redistribution of land (8.1%).

“The increase in the number of appeals related to changes in the current legislation, new requirements to the statement of objects and topographic surveys, popular land redistribution process”, said the speaker.

The number of applications for the extradition of development plan of land grew by 54.8% in the first three quarters of this year compared to the same period last year: from 1092 to 1691. “The main reason for this significant increase was the termination of registration in the Office of the RT Rosreestr on “dachnaya amnesty” of individual residential houses, built without a building permit (issued only in the presence of the development plan of land) from January 1, 2016”, said V. Fomin. In addition, since September, the capital construction objects, built without a building permit, taking into account the clarification of federal agencies, generally cannot be put on the cadastral registration.

V. Fomin noted that with the adoption of administrative rules on granting municipal service for issuing the development plan of land (from 26.01.2015 №280), any documents will no longer be required to obtain it, including drafts proposals. The development plan of land approval process is greatly simplified in 2016. “Today we went out on the terms of coordination and approval from a week to two weeks on average”, said V. Fomin.

In accordance with the amendments to the Urban Planning Code of the RF from 07.01.2017, the development plan of land no longer be approved and will be issued at the request of owners. The owners of land will be able to avoid in the future all possible problems with the construction and registration of objects, considering that the new form of the development plan of land, approved by order of the Ministry of Construction of Russia, now contains nearly all the construction data for the designing (security network area, the effect of other restricted zone, technical conditions and the connection point to the grid).

The question of land redistribution also occupies a prominent place in the appeals of citizens in recent years. This procedure is the increase of land, located in a private property at the expense of land, which does not have independent meaning.

Since March 1, 2015 1282 applications were received in the Architecture and Urban Planning Department on this issue, for 10 months of 2016 - 1815. The total area of plots, designed as a result of the redistribution procedure, amounted to almost 185 thousand square meters, said V. Fomin.

To standardize, facilitate and expedite the work with the population, since February 1, 2016 the Department has improved the system for maintaining the archives of preliminary proposals of capital construction projects in the Map Editor unified electronic database. It includes information on the location of the object, purpose, graphics conceptual proposals, legal documents, brief information about the builder and designer. The following year, an electronic database will make the archive accessible to a wider range of users and will significantly reduce the time of preparation.

In addition, the department continues to develop and improve the administrative regulations. One of the latest innovations in this area is the administrative regulations of the Kazan Executive Committee of municipal services on agreement of architectural object shape (designed and reconstructed objects of capital construction, entrances and facilities landscaping), which came into force on 27.10.2016. It will make the negotiation process as transparent as possible, improve the quality of decisions for the consideration of preliminary proposals and provide a more rigid design continuity of decisions, taken at the sketch stage, in the working design.