The whole process of drafting the SEA required certain standards to be upheld in terms of including and balancing different interests and priorities, including the public engagement during every phase of the drafting process, building municipal capacities through training and coaching, including the central level (Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning) during the whole planning process in order to ensure that all standards and other requirements are met. INSI’s main contribution in the process is provided below:
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 A summary of baseline map information for the environmental strategy;
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Description of the Vision coming from the MDP, priority and main objective of the Podujeva Municipal Area Map and its colors with other policies, Plans, and Programs related to it;
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Description of the aspects of the current state of the environment as well as the expected development in case the plan is not implemente;
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Description of the environmental characteristics of the areas that have been similarly affected by the MZM;
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Description of existing environmental products which are related to MZM;
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Description of the objectives for the protection of the environment of the products at the national or international level, which are related to the Plan and the Program as well as what are the objectives that are taken into account due to the report;
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Description of other environmental impacts including the public, flora, fauna, biodiversity, soil, climate, air, water, landscape, nature, material values, cultural areas, and the interaction between them;
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 For measures to write, reduce or mitigate the negative impact on the environment, which result from their own efforts.
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A summary of the selection of alternatives considered, including various data that was available during the report.
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Municipality of Shterpce

The Municipal Zoning Map is a multi-sectorial spatial planning document that determines the development conditions of urban and rural areas (villages) within the municipal territory. Throughout this assignment, INSI identifies the appropriate development conditions and measures for future developments including the protection of the environment and existing natural resources, as ll as the underground and overground resources. Furthermore, general development conditions define development regulations and standards that apply to all zones. General development conditions may include but are not limited to, requirements and rules, protection measures, design patterns and guidelines. INSI establishes the uses and development conditions for each zone and the terms of construction that aim to achieve the goals and objectives of the Municipal Development Plan and for their spatial and geographical extension based on its Future Land Use Map and Sectorial Development Plans.
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The drafting process has to be compliant with various phases/chapters that address all thematic sectors through textual and cartographic representation, as envisaged by the legislative framework that regulates the drafting process. Based on the principle of democracy, subsidiary, participation, integration, proportionality and prevention, the main drafting phases comprise of:
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1. General Development Conditions that define development regulations and standards that apply to all zones. General development conditions may include, but are not limited to, requirements and rules, protection measures, design patterns and guidelines such as land permitted uses, secondary permitted uses, special uses, temporary uses and not permitted uses in the whole Municipal territory, access to the cadastral parcel, access to technical infrastructure, parking and unloading rules, landscape development and buffering rules, natural and artificial lighting design and requirements, and noise mitigation requirements.
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2. List of Zones that all the designated zones overlay zones established within the municipal territory within the municipal territory, in accordance with spatial planning technical norms.
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3. Defined Zones and Development Conditions that are set in compliance with all spatial planning technical norms and requirements set forth in the Administrative Instruction on the Spatial Database, which specifies permitted uses are those functions and activities which are allowed for the particular zone, permitted secondary uses are those functions and activities which are secondary and subordinate to the primary use permitted in the zone and may be located on the same parcel as the primary use, permitted special uses are those functions and activities which are compatible with permitted uses in the zone but are subject to additional conditions and require a special use permit, temporary uses are those functions and activities which are permitted for a specific period of time, after which they must be completely removed, not permitted uses are those functions and activities which are not in harmony with applicable conditions of the area and are specifically not permitted in the zone. Development conditions also include other specifications of requirements for regulation of the space during setting construction terms, such as maximum dwelling density expressed as a maximum number of dwelling units per hectares (ha), parcel size expressed as a minimum or recommended size of parcel, parcel or parcel frontage minimum size, parcel or parcel frontage maximum size, architectural and aesthetic characteristics of certain elements of buildings (such as materials, facades, roofs, etc.), developing rules for landscaping and green buffer zones, off-street parking and shared parking, and minimum and maximum permitted height of buildings within the zone or part of a zone.
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4. Overlay Zone Development Conditions that defines complementary development conditions and terms of construction within a specific area of a municipality that requires special attention by determining protective measures for cultural, historic, economic, touristic, agricultural resources that are not addressed by base zone, protective and preventive measures are set for protected areas, Special Zones and Special Protected Zones, and Protected Zones, protective measures for natural local resources, such as protection of nature, water areas, climate, forests, etc., that are not addressed by base zone, protective measures for impact on the environment, such as; air pollution, noise, etc, protective and preventive measures are set for fire, flooding danger areas, seismic, erosive areas, rolling rock, earthquake areas and others, and certain standards that are not necessary to apply throughout the municipality.
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5. Road Infrastructure Development Conditions that specifiesthe type, area, capacity, and technical conditions for design and construction of roads, motorized and non-motorized, with categorization and levels, rail network, light and heavy, buildings and areas for air transport, buildings and areas for urban and rural public transport, and public parking areas.
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6. Public and Social Infrastructure Development Conditions that specifies the type, location, capacity, and technical conditions for design and construction of public parks and open spaces, sport fields and recreational areas, medical service areas and buildings, social service buildings, daycare buildings, schools and universities, administrative centres, public safety areas and buildings, and cemeteries.
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7. Technical Infrastructure Development Conditions that specify capacity and network, auxiliary facilities, buffer zones and equipment for water supply system, sewage system, wastewater treatment plants, drainage systems, irrigation network, local thermal energy distribution, local electricity supply, telecommunication network and other similar installations, waste disposal sites and landfills, recycling and composting facilities, and buildings and space for recycling and decomposition.
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8. Treatment of Informal Settlements that determines development conditions that are applicable according to the legislation in force.
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9. Detailed Regulatory Plans to Be Drafted that specifythe boundaries of those areas that will be subject to Detailed Regulatory Plans, which would supplement but may not alter the terms of the Municipal Zoning Map and after a Detailed Regulatory Plan is approved, Municipal Zoning Map shall be updated with any additional development conditions and cartographic information added by the Detailed Regulatory Plan.
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10. Implementation Action Plan that specifiesactivities planned in the Action Plan of the Municipal Development Plan through the development of concrete projects for transport, technical, public and social infrastructure networks set for each subsequent year the designated placement, including eventual expropriation, approximate implementation cost, anticipated source(s) of financing, implementation period, and institutions responsible for implementation.
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11. Administration, Implementation and Monitoring of Implementation that describes the procedures and responsibilities for zoning related tasks, including review of zoning compliance, issuing building permits and zoning decisions, interpretations of uses and development conditions, issuing decisions on requests for amendments and exceptions, and process for appeals.
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12. Zoning Bonuses that could be applied to increase open space or green areas, provide traffic and pedestrian movement improvements, preserve cultural and historic areas, preserve agricultural land, create public and social building and facilities that benefit the community, integrate and improve informal settlements or provide other amenities desired by the municipality and consistent with its Municipal Development Plan, through reductions in building setback requirements, reductions or waivers of permit fees or infrastructure charges, reduction of the condition in minimum parcel area, width or depth, increased percentage of the footprint area use compared to a cadastral parcel, increased maximum building height and floors, increased density, and incentives proposed by the developer or the municipality to integrate and improve informal settlements.
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13. Cartographic Section that is presented to the public shall be based on the most recent official cadastral, orthophoto, aerial, and topographic maps, consisting of Informational Base Map, Map of Areas and Buildings of Importance for Kosovo, Land Use Zoning Map, Agro-Ecological Zoning Map, Agricultural Land Irrigation Systems Map, Manner of Agricultural of Use of The Land Map, Map of Road Infrastructure, Public and Social Infrastructure Maps, Technical Infrastructure Maps, Overlay Zones Map, Informal Settlements Map, and Regulatory Plans Map
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14. Implementing and Monitoring that sets out cost projections for implementation to the department of budget and finance to be considered in accordance with procedures for inclusion in the next year’s budget and monitoring of the implementation on an annual basis based on the number of construction permits and certificates of occupancy issued according to construction category, endangered environment status, the level of productivity, the level of increase in quality of public and social services, the level of increase in quality of transport and technical services, the percentage of implemented public and public-private capital investments, as planned for the respective year for the construction of technical, social and public infrastructure, the level of large planned private investments, if known, agricultural household survey, and reviewing the amount of content and extent of amendments applications, zoning exceptions and bonuses.
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Municipality of Kamenices

Municipality of Gjakova

Municipality of Obiliq

Municipality of Prishties

Municipality of Rahovec

The Institute for Science and Technology “INSI” L.L.C., is contracted from the GIZ office in Prishtina to conduct a Feasibility study of the economic zone for the Municipality of Prizren. The objective of this activity is to conduct a feasibility study of the economic zone and lead the process of licensing the zone through the preparation of the necessary documents required by the Ministry of Trade, Entrepreneurship, and Industry.
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INSI is delivering the following scope of services within the assignment:
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 General Summary of Feasibility Study
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 Location
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Position of the Zone
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Infrastructure of the Zone
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Investment Plan
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Administration of Zone
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Economic advantages for establishment and development of economic zones
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Financial revenues
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Planned activities that will be performed within economic zones
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Municipality of Prizren

The overall objective of this project is to prepare Ferizaj’s Municipal Development Plan for the entire municipal territory. The Municipal Development Plan is a multi-sectorial spatial planning document that determines the long-term goals of economic, social and spatial development, including the development of urban and rural areas (villages) within the municipal territory. The municipal approach is heterogeneous in terms of their long term vision, objectives and specific expertise required, in terms of their human resource capacities, size and population, which adds to the overall complexity of this process. The process of drafting the plan comprises of establishing municipal working groups, composed of various thematic aspects such as land use and environment, demography and social, economic development and infrastructure. INSI’s role is to professionally support each working group with specific experts of relevant sectors. The whole process is largely inclusive actively engaging representatives from different communities, civil societies, and business communities, as well as representatives from the central government ministries. Besides assisting municipalities in the preparation of their Municipal Development Plan, INSI is also engaged in capacity building of the municipal employees in administering this document and GIS software that they’ll use in the future.
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The drafting process has to be compliant with various phases/chapters that address all thematic sectors through textual and cartographic representation, as envisaged by the legislative framework that regulates the drafting process. Main drafting phases comprise of:
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1. Municipal Profile that represents the municipal development history, existing situation, municipal human and financial capacities, using thousands of indicators to reflect the current situation of the:
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 0. Demographic development;
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1. Economic development;
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2. Technical infrastructure development;
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3. Transport and transport infrastructure development;
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4. Public and social infrastructure development;
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5. Environment and risk areas development;
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6. Natural, cultural and touristic heritage development;
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7. Rural and urban settlement development;
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 8. Housing development;
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 9. Informal settlements development; and
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 10. Land use development.
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 2. Sectorial Assessment that represents trends, needs, projections, forecasts, and future assumptions that are relevant to the municipality, including population projections, economic condition forecasts, future housing needs, and the movement of people, goods and services along specific communication routes. This section includes the sectorial assessment of the following thematic areas through the textual and cartographic representation of:
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 0. Demographic development, including population projections and prognosis based on previous demographic trends.
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 1. Economic development includes the assessment of the local economy such as households, employment and unemployment, economic sectors and their structure, and businesses, agriculture economy, the relation of economic activities of the municipality with the neighbouring municipalities, status of resources and touristic services such as accommodation and food serving spaces, existing and planned economic zones and their impact, and a summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the local economy.
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 2. Technical infrastructure development, composed of underground and above ground installations of thermal energy, water supply network, irrigation, drainage, sewage, telecommunication, and waste collection and management infrastructure that includes the assessment of an inventory of existing local technical infrastructure of local and central level importance, showing the extent, locations and capacities of such infrastructure, an estimate of the future needs for such infrastructure, the needed capacities of expanded or new infrastructure and municipal technical and financial capacities to implement the necessary technical infrastructure capacities.
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 3. Transport and transport infrastructure development that includes the assessment of the existing state of roads and protection buffers and the transportation infrastructure, expansion and state of existing roads, expansion and category of planned roads by the national level, assessing intensity and capacity of junctions and major lanes, traffic circulation patterns, inter-and intra-municipal urban and rural transport routes, use of roads by cars, pedestrians, bicycles and other methods of transport, estimation of current public parking spaces, assessment of future needs for transport infrastructure, and assessment of municipal technical and financial capacities to implement the necessary transportation infrastructure network.
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 4. Public and social infrastructure development that includes the assessment of an inventory of existing public buildings and spaces such as medical, educational, public administration and other similar services, an inventory of existing social buildings and spaces such as cultural, sportive, fishing, hunting, libraries for the community, public parks, cemeteries and other similar services, an estimate of needs for space and future construction for all public and social services, and assessment of technical and financial capacities to implement all buildings and spaces necessary for public and social services.
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 5. Environment and risk areas development that identifies pollution, spatial expansion of pollution and degradation, and needed protection and prevention measures from natural hazards based on the assessment of air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, noise pollution, flooding, erosion and sedimentation, landslides, avalanches and steep slopes, earthquakes, high pollution areas, fire risk areas and the needed prevention and protection measures to be in accordance with the Strategic Environment Assessment.
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 6. Natural, cultural and touristic heritage development that includes the assessment of the existing state of natural, cultural and touristic assets of the municipality and whether protection and preservation and existing and proposed development activities of natural, cultural and touristic assets, such as strict nature reserves, natural monuments, natural landscape, architectural heritage, archaeological heritage, spiritual heritage, movable heritage, cultural landscapes and the spatial impact and development opportunities created by such as national parks, protected areas, protected zones and special protected zones within the municipal territory.
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 7. Rural and urban settlement developments include the assessment of the existing state and spatial expansion of all settlements as per below classification, urban/ rural character, size and number of inhabitants, functionality and interconnection grid, type and sea level height, all illegal constructions and informal settlements and analyzes the relationship between built and not built areas within settlements.
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 8. Housing developments that include the assessment of the existing state of housing and housing patterns in the municipality and future needs based on an inventory and analysis of housing needs that identify the number of housing units necessary for the population in accordance with the forecasted growth, an analysis of housing conditions, including recommendations for the development of housing and the improvement of housing conditions, an analysis of vacant housing buildings including possibilities for their reuse, housing construction trends and average housing prices and identification of sufficient land for housing, including housing for low-income families, elderly, and the disabled.
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 9. Informal settlements developments include the existing state, spatial expansion, characteristics, number of inhabitants and economic, social and environmental state of identified informal settlements.
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 10. Land use developments assess the existing uses and patterns of land uses within the municipal territory and land use projections in prior MDPs and to what extent these projections are implemented.
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 3. Spatial Development Framework that represents the overall strategic process and approach, describing the desired future and setting out what needs to be achieved in order to bring about development and improved welfare of people, through the textual and cartographic representation of:
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 0. The vision states the long-term broad concept of the municipality’s vision for the future that contains sectorial statements, which conceptualize in general terms the development of goals and objectives aimed to be achieved in the future of the municipality.
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 1. Goals that present general statements of future planned development direction for each thematic sector in the municipality in order to achieve the long-term vision that is later fragmented into respective objectives.
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 2. Objectives that describe a specific future state to be attained in a stated period of time in order to achieve a goal, being specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and proposed to be achieved in a specific amount of time.
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 3. Spatial Development Concept that sets the spatial logic and integration of spatial planning requirements deriving from the Vision, Goals and Objectives through presenting the entirety of the planned proposed solutions through text and conceptual spatial maps for all the sectoral strategies and proposals for development for the municipality by addressing environmental protection, and natural and cultural heritage, proposed economic development, technical infrastructure, public and social infrastructure, settlements, planned housing and treatment of informal settlements, planned land use such as agricultural, housing, commercial, technologic, industrial and mixed-use and growth proposal and changes from prior MDP.
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4. Spatial Proposed Scenarios represent textual descriptions and maps that describe future land use requirements, protection measures and areas to be protected, and proposed changes and new developments, chosen in close cooperation with the community and the stakeholders.
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 5. Strategic Development Priorities and Action Plan determine developments and prioritized solutions in the form of Strategic Development Priorities in accordance with the Vision, Goals and Objectives, based on financial, human and spatial resources necessary to achieve the objectives and plans, effectiveness and time frame, and cost-benefit analysis comparing the approximate costs with public and/ or social benefits related to specific projects or decisions. For each project, measure and action, Action Plan determines description of the project, measure and activity, implementation priority (high, medium, or low), implementation timeframe (short, mid- or long-term), financial implications (minimum, small, medium and large), implementation arrangements, such as public-private partnership, etc., preliminary commitments to ensure that finances and other resources will be delivered when needed and as planned, other resources needed (human, technical and other) required to implement the activity, an approximate budget and budget category for the expenditure, additional budget funding if needed, roles and responsibilities for each responsible organization, implementing partner or stakeholder, any implementation agreements between the municipality and other local government or other organizations, related indicators, and a monitoring and evaluation process.
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 6. The cartographic presentation contains integrated maps by thematic areas for the entire municipal area, prepared according to the legal spatial planning requirements in a GIS platform, which provides essential information for all sectorial development plans as a result of the Spatial Development Concept and Strategic Development Priorities and it comprises of the various maps, such as Economic Development Plan Map, Transport Infrastructure Plan Map, Urban and Rural Transport Plan Map, Electrical and Thermal Energy Plan map, Water Supply and Sewage Map, Irrigation and Drainage System Map, Telecommunication and Other Similar Installation Plan Map, Public and Social Facilities Plan Map, Sport Facilities and Areas Plan Map, Open Public Spaces and Green Areas Plan Map, Cemeteries Management Plan Map, Protection of Natural and Cultural Heritage Plan Map, Risk Mitigation Plan Map, and Waste Management and Recycling Plan Map.
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INSI

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Of Municipal Zoning Map Of Shterpces

INSI

Municipality of Shterpce

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