Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has started to work on plans to organize Buca Prison, which has been demolished, as a recreation and parking area. Stating that the proposal on the subject was included in the agenda of the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Council, the Mayor Tunç Soyer“Buca, the biggest district of İzmir, needs green, not concrete,” he said.
After the demolition of the Buca Prison, the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality started to work on the plan for the arrangement of the land as a recreation and parking area. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor stated that most of the parking areas were converted to concrete with the plan change prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. Tunç Soyer“We see that the amount of green space in the existing plans is reduced and there is an attempt to allocate space for construction. However, Buca, the biggest district of İzmir, needs green, not concrete. We started to work on plans to organize the area as a recreation and parking area. The proposal on the subject entered the agenda of the Metropolitan Municipality Council.
How did the process proceed?
While the Buca Prison area was a "prison area" in its first plan approved in 1962, it was planned as a "housing, education and park area" in 1981 with the plan made by the Ministry of Public Works and Settlement. Housing development was brought to the area on this date. In the amendment to the 25/2003 Scale Master Zoning Plan, which was made upon the request of the abolished Ministry of Public Works and Settlement and the Ministry of Justice and approved by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality on April 1, 5000, some of it was named “Residential Area with Trade Options” and partially “Park, Parking Lot and Housing”. taken into use.
In the 6/2011 scale Master Development Plan Revision, which was approved on September 1, 5000 throughout Buca and is still valid, the plan decision of 2003 was conveyed in the same way, and part of the area was "Secondary Business Centers and Secondary Education Facility Area" and partly "Road, Parking lot, Park and Recreation Area” remained in use.
In the 20/2003 Scale Implementation Plan approved by the Metropolitan Municipality on October 1, 1000 and still in effect, 24 thousand 580 square meters of the said area is a commercial or residential area (total construction area is 36 thousand 780 square meters), 7 thousand 650 square meters are covered. part of it was marked as training facility area, 20 thousand 600 square meters of it was marked as parking area, and 6 thousand square meters of it was marked as parking area.
The park has shrunk, the commercial area has grown
Finally, on August 9, 2021, the 1/5000 and 1/1000 scaled zoning plan amendment proposal prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization was submitted to the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality. Metropolitan, in the opinion of the institution, stated that the construction area, which was approximately 40 thousand square meters in the current implementation plan, was increased to 70 thousand square meters, the training area was reduced from 7 thousand 650 square meters to 4 thousand 500 square meters, the parking area of about 20 thousand 600 square meters was reduced to 7 thousand 400 square meters, the parking area of 6 thousand square meters on the other hand, demanded a new regulation by stating that it was completely removed.
At this point, since no work has been done to increase the public space in the relevant plans by the ministry, new plan studies have been started by the Metropolitan Municipality.
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