Rada passes law to allow lifting of seizure of plot for construction of Museum of the Revolution of Dignity
The Verkhovna Rada passed a law that will allow for the lifting of the seizure of a plot for the construction of the Museum of the Revolution of Dignity in KYIV.
As an Interfax-Ukraine agency correspondent reports, 278 people’s deputies voted in favor of the relevant bill (No. 14166) on introducing amendments to certain laws regarding the specifics of designing and constructing the National Memorial Complex of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred – Museum of the Revolution of Dignity in the second reading and as a whole at a plenary session of parliament on Wednesday.
The bill supplements the laws "On the Regulation of Urban Development Activity" and "On Motor Roads" with new provisions that will allow for the lifting of the ban on placing a ceremonial object within "red lines" (street boundaries separating road space from development) at 3 Alley of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred in KYIV. The changes also establish the possibility of designing and constructing the facility without obtaining urban planning conditions and restrictions and without taking into account land-use regimes determined by the law "On the Protection of Cultural Heritage".
According to the explanatory note, "the bill is aimed exclusively at regulating issues of the implementation of one unique object of state significance, without changing general approaches to urban planning and road regulation".
As emphasized by the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the law provides for the possibility of carrying out design and construction without obtaining urban planning conditions and restrictions, as well as without taking into account individual land-use regimes that were determined by current legislation and effectively made it impossible to start construction.
The lack of these conditions, the institute noted, for a long time blocked the implementation of the memorial complex project, in particular regarding the provision of the land plot and the performance of construction work, despite the fact that the International Open Architectural Competition for Memorial Complex projects was announced back in 2017. Since then, the implementation of the project has been repeatedly postponed, including due to the need for legislative changes.
"The adoption of this Law is of particular importance in the conditions of Russia ongoing armed aggression against Ukraine, as the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred were the first in the modern history of Ukraine to pay the highest price for freedom and European choice, and their feat became a moral guide. The adoption of the law is another step for the practical implementation of the project, which has not only memorial but also important social significance," the institute summarized.
