Budapest residents submit over 700 ideas for community budget projects

Budapest residents have submitted more than 700 project ideas for the city’s community budget, the Mayor’s Office said on Wednesday.

The metropolitan council’s fifth participatory budget received over 730 submissions by the 31 January deadline, the office said in a statement, adding that the ideas included plans aimed at supporting bicycle and pedestrian mobility, green developments, community building, sports, recycling and making better use of the riverbanks.

Of the submissions, the 300 most popular ones will advance to the expert evaluation stage. Residents can express support for their preferred ideas on the otlet.budapest.hu website between 6 and 21 February, the statement said. Community voting is expected to be held in the autumn after the expert evaluations, it added. The city council will spend up to a total of HUF one billion (EUR 2.5 million) on implementing residents’ urban development ideas, the office said.

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