The president of the Chamber of Councilors of São Paulo, Milton Leite (União), informed this Monday (19) that a new text of the Bill (PL) of the Strategic Master Plan (PDE) of the municipality will be presented tomorrow (20) and published in the Official Gazette on Wednesday (21). The second round voting, initially scheduled for Wednesday, was rescheduled for Friday (23). Protocoled in the Chamber in March, the project of the City of São Paulo had a substitute approved, in the first round, on May 31st. The Master Plan is a municipal law that guides the development and growth of the city. Presented by the Urban Policy Committee of the City Council of São Paulo, the text that changes the current plan allows construction above the limits in force in the legislation on land use and occupation in areas closer to public transport. With this, the possibility of building more buildings increases in the city. The text has faced criticism from civil society organizations and social movements. In a press conference tonight (19), the PL’s rapporteur, councilor Rodrigo Goulart (PSD), acknowledged that the text already approved in the first vote will be changed, but that its final version is not yet ready. According to the councilor, several points of the text are being revised. Among other changes, Goulart said that there will be less expansion of the city’s vertical axes, around train and subway stations. “The question of the axes that we are reviewing, I cannot set the measure, but at least the measure of 800 meters”, he said. In the version approved in the first vote, the length was up to 1000 meters. Another section that was reviewed is the possibility of building tall buildings in the vicinity of the Mirante de Santana meteorological station, in the north of the capital. The House had approved in the first vote the repeal of a 1971 law – which prohibited tall buildings in the area so as not to interfere with climate measurements. The rapporteur also added that the “concession areas”, public territories that were ceded to the private sector, such as highways, and that, in the version approved in the first vote, could have specific rules for constructions, different from the neighborhood, were removed from the project. Goulart also said that part of the text already approved, within the scope of the Urban Development Fund (Fundurb), will also be changed. “It is not a retreat. It is a job of listening to public audiences and the most diverse benches”, he said.
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