Problems and prospects of socio-economic development of urban agglomeration were discussed in Kazan
Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan - Minister of Economy of the Republic of Tatarstan Midkhat Shagiakhmetov made an opening speech.
The Kazan agglomeration includes the Kazan urban district and 5 adjacent municipal districts of the republic. The need for the development of the agglomeration is caused by problems associated with the lagging pace of development of social, engineering, transport infrastructures against the background of high rates of construction of residential real estate on the border of Kazan.
The participants discussed approaches to the development of urban agglomerations, considered an example of creating such a system in the Nizhny Novgorod region, and listened to the opinions of Moscow experts.
Acting Deputy Minister of Land and Property of the Republic of Tatarstan Tagir Khusnutdinov, in turn, spoke about the main directions that are being carried out by the Spatial Data Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan together with the Ministry of Land and Property of the Republic of Tatarstan within the framework of the development of the Kazan agglomeration. “Today we are making an inventory of territorial planning and urban zoning documents. Based on this work, one can see a lack of uniformity in the approaches to the development of previously approved documents, which leads to an imbalance in the development of territories and complicates the further integration of such documents into the regional system for ensuring urban planning activities” he noted. Also, according to him, in order to create a strategy for the development of an agglomeration, a system of urban planning monitoring of the development of agglomerations is needed.