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From now on, builders of new apartments will be able to install even fewer parking spaces near the house in almost all of Vilnius. For example, in sleeping areas, officials are reducing the requirements to just three parking spaces for four apartments. Or in a larger area of the center: for two apartments, a parking space. Some Vilnius residents are angry that the municipality serves business. The municipality justifies it: it is time for people to get used to bicycles, scooters and public transport.
When narrow courtyards were built, the Lithuanians, of course, did not have as many cars as they do now. There was no need for parking spaces, and now there are so many cars that there is no space in the yards.
But it seems that these residents of old apartment buildings can still enjoy the possibilities of their yard. After all, the Vilnius authorities have given gifts to entrepreneurs who build expensive apartments in the center of the capital and in sleeping areas; builders are forced to install fewer and fewer parking spaces.
The territory of central Vilnius, where the government enforces the minimum requirement of one place for two apartments, is now being expanded to the elders of Rasai, Naujininkai, Naujamiestis, Žvėrynas, Šnipiškės and Antakalnis.
And the area around the city center, where it is now allowed to install a minimum of three parking spaces for four apartments, will now cover almost the entirety of Vilnius with sleeping areas. Entrepreneurs will build more apartments with fewer parking spaces.
A man who lives in the center of the capital says that the municipality does not care about the interests of the people, but the interests of the business and higher profits: “I believe that everyone has the right to have one or two cars. It is important that they do not pollute and that there is space to build. You have to pay for this. Paid parking – adequate and paid places when buying an apartment – adequate. But there must be enough. “
“If an apartment has a car, what will they do there? Fighting for a place? Or how to understand here? ”Asks another resident.
“Now it happens that the department is inhabited by four people and already has three cars. Maybe it’s too much. It is necessary to do something in some way, to cooperate, to do something, ”says the resident.
“It is quite obvious that there are places where public transportation is available and there are fewer of those parking spaces. And it was in those places that this decision was made, which is not a Vilnius invention, but a normal practice in Western European cities, ”says Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius.
The mayor of the capital says it is time for residents to get on public transport and enjoy the empty streets. And he adds that a company can always install enough underground parking spaces.
The only problem is that it is very expensive to install, so the new order is really good for business. Especially now, under the rule of the Liberals in the city, buildings began to sprout in every crevice, instead of squares or parking lots.
Gintaras Čaikauskas, professor in the Department of Architecture at VGTU, says: “It is an advantage for them, it is simply easier. In the end, it is easier to find a plot. If you calculate the needs of cars, it turns out that nothing fits and there are no such plots in the old town or in the city center. You need to dig some levels underground, which is especially expensive. “
“Build a lot parking lot in the central part of the city it is problematic because you have to dig a lot of underground floors and that is not really worth it. This means that the ladders on one side make parking as easy as the norm specifies. Or make it more expensive and maybe take a loss or build fewer homes, ”says real estate expert Saulius Vagonis.
Vilnius’ chief architect admits that decisions to lower the requirements for parking spaces stem in part from hearing from entrepreneurs who complain that they do not sell up to a third of newly installed parking spaces.
“These decisions do not come only from the developers, they come from an understanding of what a modern city should look like. We are now on the right bank of the Neris in Vilnius, so if we develop all the projects here, how much is planned here, how much fits here. . We should have about 14 thousand less parking spaces. This is what you imagine the Seven Acropolis parkingus“Says Mindaugas Pakalnis, the chief architect of Vilnius.
The chief architect says the city should be built for people, not cars, and that’s probably not the last decision to cut down on parking.
Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas presented such an opportunity to municipalities a few years ago in the last week of his work: he pleased property developers, even cutting parking space requirements in half.
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