The meeting on the development of the Kazan general plan was held in the Executive Committee

(KZN.RU, March 17). The development of the master plan was discussed in the Kazan Executive Committee today. The participants of the meeting, which was chaired by Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, worked out a number of topical issues, significant for the creating document, which determines the further development of the city.

Oleg Grigoriev, the first deputy director for production issues of the SUE “General Plan Institute of Moscow”, told the Mayor about the stage, at which the development of the master plan is now. He reminded that in the development of city planning documentation (local standards for urban planning, master plan, land use and development rules and the Project for protection zones for cultural heritage sites), a large amount of information on the situation in the city was analyzed. For example, the data of mobile operators, which allowed determining the boundaries of the “real city”, were processed, traffic movement was analyzed using a transport laboratory, and population surveys were conducted, etc.

Simulated mathematical models of various components of the urban system were developed, including the transport model. Four variants of the city development concept, developed with the participation of local architects and urban planners, were analyzed with the help of these models, and the final concept of Kazan's development was worked out. It was reviewed and approved at the meeting of the Commission for the development of the master plan. According to this concept, the integrated development of the city's territories, the further infrastructure development, the environmental friendliness and polycentric development are among the basic principles of Kazan's development.

The following issues were discussed at the meeting: the transport issue, including the development of suburban railway transport, underground, etc., the issues of the street-road network, parking spaces, the balance of accommodation and urban housing. All these topics were considered taking into account the adopted Local standards of urban planning and in conjunction with other city planning documents.

Denis Kalinkin, the head of the Executive Committee, Rustam Nigmatullin, the first deputy head of the Kazan Municipality, Azat Nigmatzyanov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, Vladimir Fomin, the head of the Department of Architecture and Urban Development, Tatiana Prokofieva, the chief architect of Kazan, and Timur Kadyrov, her deputy, took part in the meeting.