Mayor Karácsony wants to create a 21st century, green, modern district of Rákosrendező in Budapest
The Budapest metropolitan council is asking the government to draft a separate law on the Rákosrendező investment project to provide for the legislation needed to regulate “the most important project of the past half century”, the city’s mayor said on Monday.
The city council wants to develop a “21st century, green, new area” in Rákosrendező, Gergely Karácsony said on Facebook, adding, at the same time, that today the creation of such a “car-free, affordable district with a positive energy balance faces several legal hurdles”.
“That is why we are exercising the right we inherited from the Arab investors and asking the government to draft a separate Rákosrendező law with the legislation needed to regulate the most important investment project of the past half century,” he said. Karácsony said a “range of obsolete laws would have to be changed”, regulating matters like the number of parking spaces that had to be built, rainwater drainage and the placement of solar panels.
“These laws should be reviewed anyway, so the Rákosrendező green development project could serve as an example for the entire Hungarian construction sector,” he added. He said what mattered most was for the capital to be given the legal authority without which a project of this scale would be impossible to carry out. “And the state should keep its word: Budapest residents are entitled to the same thing the Arab investor would have been entitled to,” he said.
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