Land Commission missed the transfer of land to a state institute in the UNESCO zone in Odesa

The Commission on Spatial Development, Land Management and Regulation of Land Rights of the Odesa City Council has agreed for the second time to submit to the session the issue of granting a plot of land in the city for permanent use to the State Research Institute of Cybersecurity and Information Protection Technologies.

The deputies made the decision at a meeting of the commission on May 2.

This time, the deputies were provided with all the documents, due to the absence of which the issue was not allowed to be considered at the April 16 session.

In particular, as Zhanna Mandrychenko explained after the last meeting of the Intent, the documentation then included a letter of approval for the transfer of the land from the Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications, an extract from the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning Cadastre, and a geo-base map - a schematic representation of the area under study with a detailed indication of all objects located within its boundaries.

The deputies gave the officials the opportunity to find these documents during the last meeting on April 25, but they did not find them and the issue was postponed. On May 2, the necessary documents were provided to the deputies and they agreed to submit them to the session.

The deputies explained their scrutiny of the documents by the fact that the site in question is in the UNESCO protected area.

It was about 0.18 hectares of land. The almost 3,000-square-meter building on this land belongs to the State Special Communications Administration, which, according to the land management department, provided a letter stating that it had no objection to the transfer of this land to the research institute for permanent use.

Meetings of permanent deputy commissions to consider issues that may be submitted to deputies for consideration at sessions begin immediately after a city council session to prepare issues for the next one, and Intent monitors these meetings.

There are 12 standing committees in Odesa city council, but as of February 22, 2025, the standing committee on culture, tourism and international relations and the standing committee on regulations, deputy ethics and corruption prevention cannot make decisions, as they currently have less than three deputies.

Кирило Бойко