Odesa Council Delays Land Allocation for Cybersecurity Institute

The Commission on Spatial Development, Land Management and Regulation of Land Rights of the Odesa City Council postponed 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 address of the land plot was not disclosed at the April 25 meeting for security reasons, but it was noted that it is located in the UNESCO zone.

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.

However, the documentation provided by the department raised questions among the deputies. Thus, Zhanna Mandrychenko noted that the documents indicated the presence of a letter from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, but in fact, the deputy did not find this letter in the documents. Therefore, the deputy said that she would like to see photos of the toponymic study and some other documents that, in her opinion, should be present in the documentation and offered to support the issue at the session, but after the documentation is finalized.

The deputies agreed with this proposal and gave the representatives of the department until the end of the meeting to find the necessary documents and add them to the package provided to the commission.

Preparations for the session are currently underway. In particular, meetings of permanent deputy commissions are taking place to consider issues that may be submitted to the deputies for consideration at the session, 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