The construction lobby in the Crimean parliament went all-in: Developers allowed themselves everything
Last week, the Crimean Parliament, by its resolution, equated construction permits obtained before joining the Russian Federation with Russian ones for the period until 2017.
An unprecedented solution that allows one to bypass the requirements of the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation, allows for the completion and commissioning of all capital construction projects on the territory of the republic that were started before March 21, 2014, even on paper.
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The author of the project was deputy, member of the relevant committee Galina Konovalenko. Back in July, at a session of the State Council, she complained about the intractability of federal ministries, and asked the head of Crimea, Sergei Aksenov, to intervene in the situation.
“In 5 months we have zero square meters of housing put into operation. Since February, we have been trying to amend the law on urban planning activities of the Republic of Crimea to complete and put into operation facilities for which technical conditions, design documentation and construction permits were obtained as part of Ukraine,” she emphasized. “Despite the fact that the Ministry of Construction of Crimea worked out the text of the resolution with the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Economy of the Russian Federation, it was blocked by the Ministry of Construction.”
Speaker Vladimir Konstantinov clearly did not like the initiative of the deputy, and part-time director of one of the divisions of “Consol” to bring the issue to the public plane.
“Coordination with the ministry is not decisive, these are our powers,” he snapped, and assured that the issue could be resolved.
The speaker confirmed the firmness of his word at the first meeting after the summer holidays. The resolution was adopted as a package without discussion. And it regulates the following: all construction permits issued before March 21, 2014 according to Ukrainian requirements are applied in the Crimea until January 1, 2017, along with the documents provided for by the Town Planning Code of the Russian Federation.
A change of developer, contractor, or construction customer does not affect the eligibility of permitting documentation - it is tied to the object.
Moreover, a separate paragraph in the resolution stipulates that all agreements for share (equity) participation in construction, concluded before January 1, 2015 with individuals and legal entities, are recognized as valid until the facility is put into operation and ownership rights are registered. The agreement itself is the basis for registering rights to property in the State Registration Committee.
It is interesting that back in May, the parliament proposed to the Council of Ministers, by its resolution, to extend the validity period of Ukrainian-style construction documentation, since according to the law “On the regulation of urban planning activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan”, the procedure for using design documentation, examinations, conclusions and approvals received before March 21, 2014 should was developed by the Council of Ministers. But such an order was not accepted by the government.
There was no reaction to the legislative initiative of the State Council on a special regime for technical regulation of the construction industry until 2017. The resolution proposing to amend the Federal Constitutional Law “On the admission of the Republic of Crimea to the Russian Federation and the formation of new entities within the Russian Federation - the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol” was adopted back in February, there was zero reaction from the State Duma.
Apparently, desperate to get a legal basis for cover, the construction lobby in the Crimean parliament went all-in, allowing itself everything: the construction of apartments on park lands, within the boundaries of security zones and even between vineyards, high-rise buildings in local areas, high-rise buildings under the guise of reconstructing a cafe - wherever a square meter gives a 300% profit. Need I remind you that in the list of construction companies in Crimea, the list of scandalous ones is headed by the company “Consol”, associated with Konstantinov.
After the procedure for final registration of land rights was adopted, allowing the procedure to be completed until the land plot was acquired, many decisions of sessions of village, town and city councils appeared on allowing the development of land allotments issued retroactively. Moreover, there are several solutions for the same areas. Of course, this applies to a greater extent to lands in the vicinity of Simferopol and on the coast.
Even legal entities are faced with encroachments on their land plots by impostors with similar imprints and documents certified by the seals of no longer existing local councils.
The procedure for finalizing rights to land, just like the old technical regulations, is valid until 2017, and if earlier the saying “there is land left for one convocation” was in use in parliament, now “whoever faces 2017 with what will continue to live like that.”
And yes, the statistical curve of square meters of housing should go up. We need to report something on the results of the first full year as part of the Russian Federation.
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