The Urban Development Secretariat of the City of Buenos Aires is working together with neighbors and private developers on a project to reform the current building regulations, which will be presented this year in the Buenos Aires Legislature.
He Urban Code (CUR) must be reformed every four years, as established by the norm and, as it came into force in 2019, its modification must be discussed this year. As reported last Friday in the Buenos Aires Legislature, the Buenos Aires chief of staff, Felipe Miguel“shortly” a project will be sent to parliament to “adjust“the current regulation.
“We are preparing a proposal for regulatory change that is quite advanced“said the official during his presentation, when giving the last management report to the deputies.
In December the new head of the Buenos Aires Government takes office, Jorge Macriwho within his campaign promises had outlined modify the CUR, because many residents asked to stop modifying the morphology of their neighborhoods. In that sense, a text is being developed to modify the one that came into effect in 2019, but it must be discussed by the new elected legislators.
Even in the middle of the month. The Buenos Aires Government held a meeting of the Permanent Participatory Forum of the Environmental Urban Plan Councilin which 200 people participated through the platform Zoomwhere they advanced part of the modifications that they would propose for the CUR.
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The architect Alan Schachterreal estate consultant who participated in the meeting promoted by the Development Secretariat Urbanwhich heads Alvaro García Resta (it is not yet confirmed if he continues to lead the portfolio), he assured Ambit that within the presentation made, it was talked about “increase buildable capacity on avenues to favor extremely large and high-quality constructions, which are used for real estate speculation.” At the same time, he highlighted that “of all the works registered since the entry into force of the Urban Codeless than 10% started construction.”
Furthermore, a “height adjustment” into the neighborhoods. In line with the residents’ requests not to modify the morphology of the place, Building height permits on common streets within the neighborhoods would go from 4 to 2 stories, which “lowers the price of land”since at the time of selling them fewer apartments can be built.
It was also proposed limit gastronomic use, which could affect the neighborhood economy. But it would be in line with the requests made by the neighbors.
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Sources of the Secretary of Development Urban They assured this medium that it will still be pending for the next legislators to discuss the project. It should be noted that in the Buenos Aires Legislature, 30 of the 60 seats will be renewed and those deputies will be in charge of modifying the text and approving it.
Source: Ambito
