{"id":8734,"date":"2021-08-23T18:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8734"},"modified":"2021-08-30T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T07:29:12","slug":"budvanisation-of-the-new-minister-of-urbanism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mans.co.me\/en\/?p=8734","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Budvanisation\u2019 of the new Minister of Urbanism \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Kotor initiated preliminary proceedings in the case of the illegal construction of the Minister of Urbanism and Spatial Planning, Ratko Mitrovi\u0107, according to the report MANS filed at the end of May.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

New data published by MANS show that the illegal building of Minister Mitrovi\u0107’s family cannot be legalized without amendments to the planning documentation for which Mitrovi\u0107 himself is in charge.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Komo\u0161evina settlement is located on a hill above the popular beach Mogren and offers a direct view of the St. Marko island, Budva’s old town and Zavala peninsula.<\/p>\n

The current Minister of Urbanism and Spatial Planning, Ratko Mitrovi\u0107, has long joined the race for the most prestigious location on the Budva Riviera, and he decided to build a residential building in that very Budva settlement without a building permit and contrary to planning documentation.

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When Komo\u0161evina was urbanized, at the end of 2015, Minister Mitrovi\u0107 received conditions from the Municipality of Budva for the construction of a residential building, with a maximum area of around 322 m2<\/sup>.


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Urban development and technical requirements<\/p><\/div>\n

However, the data from the field and the official documentation of the Budva Secretariat for Urbanism show that the appetites of Minister Mitrovi\u0107 and his family were much bigger than what the official planning documentation allowed.

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In new documentation for legalization submitted to the Municipality of Budva by Matija Mitrovi\u0107, the Minister’s son, the auditor of the project states that the facility was not built in accordance with the conditions from the spatial plan for that part of Budva.<\/p>\n

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Auditor’s statement<\/p><\/div>\n

It is interesting that the field report was made only two weeks after the appearance of Minister Mitrovi\u0107 in the show “Na\u010disto”, where he assured the public that it was a building of around 300 m2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Mitrovi\u0107\u2019s building has three floors above ground and consists of nine apartments, the largest of which has about 200 m2<\/sup>.

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In response to a question from the MANS Investigative Centre, the Budva Secretariat for Urbanism confirmed that Mitrovi\u0107 family had exceeded the conditions from the plan to which their facility should fit.<\/p>\n

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Response of the Budva Secretariat for Urbanism<\/p><\/div>\n

The Secretariat also states that, if the conditions are met, in the concrete case, it would make a decision on the termination of the legalization procedure until the entry into force of the General Regulation Plan of Montenegro.<\/p>\n

There is a danger that this will bring Minister Mitrovi\u0107 into a position of conflict of interest, as the one we saw when urbanism was managed by the staff of the Democratic Party of Socialists, and the public interest was often subordinated to the private one. Minister Mitrovi\u0107’s facility is not the only or the largest illegal building in Budva, but we believe that it would be a great opportunity for the new government to show on a concrete example that the law is now the same for everyone and that there are no untouchables in the sector of urbanism.<\/p>\n

When it comes to the legalization of that facility, the minister is in an obvious conflict of interest because it is his ministry that is in charge of adopting the plan for legalization. Bearing in mind Minister Mitrovi\u0107’s continued efforts to withhold the facts from the public, we are not encouraged that his capacity to enforce the law will exceed that of his predecessor, Branimir Gvozdenovi\u0107.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Kotor has opened a case and initiated preliminary proceedings following MANS\u2019 report against Mitrovi\u0107. The public expects an answer to the question: will Ratko Mitrovi\u0107 be yet another Montenegro\u2019s minister who is above the law, or will the law and justice finally be satisfied, regardless of the fact that he is a minister.<\/p>\n

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Response of the Basic State Prosecutor’s Office<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dejan Milovac<\/p>\n

MANS Investigative Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 The Basic State Prosecutor’s Office in Kotor initiated preliminary proceedings in the case of the illegal construction of the Minister of Urbanism and Spatial Planning, Ratko Mitrovi\u0107, according to the report MANS filed at the end of May. New data published by MANS show that the illegal building of Minister Mitrovi\u0107’s family cannot be<\/p>\n

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