Master plan České Budějovice

The Master Plan will be ambitious in its vision, flexible for the future, clear and simple for decision making in the area and realistic in its proposals and intentions.

The Jury finds the proposal to be very original and comprehensive and has great confidence in the possibility of creating a plan that is unique, effective and very well suited to the specific needs and characteristics of the area. The Jury clearly sees in the proposal a future plan that offers flexibility and is able to respond to the requirements of sustainability, enabling population growth and improving the quality of the environment.

The brief for the master plan and the competition itself raise key questions that the competition proposal and subsequently the master plan should answer. The fundamental incentive to address is the prospective population of 135,000, which appears in the city's vision and in the master plan brief. To test this assumption, a simple population projection based on current population trends was developed. The considered state would be reached in approximately 2050 (approx. 132,500 inhabitants), which is assessed as optimal in terms of development sequence, while the average permanent population growth of approx. 1,300 inhabitants corresponds to the average population growth in the past 3 years according to the CSO data. This sustained and significant population growth must be conditioned not only by the creation of prerequisites in the master plan, but also by a number of other interventions by the city. Among the essential preconditions are:, providing sufficient areas for new apartments (approx. + 19,000 apartments), new primary schools (approx. +3,200 children) and kindergartens (approx. + 1,900 children), expansion of university education, development of business opportunities, development of culture and creative industries, areas for new parks, sports grounds and other leisure activities, expansion of urban and suburban public transport.

The Jury considers the proposal to be original and comprehensive and has confidence in the possibility of creating a plan that is unique, effective and very well suited to the specific needs and characteristics of the area. The Jury clearly sees in the proposal a future plan that offers flexibility and is able to respond to the requirements of sustainability, enabling population growth and improving the quality of the environment.

The Master Plan is a kind of contract between the city (political representation) and the users of the city (residents, entrepreneurs, other subjects - stakeholders). The aim is a simple, understandable, predictable and user-friendly plan that sets clear, transparent, pre-defined and unchangeable rules for all participants in the process of development of the territory (or with clearly defined conditions for understandable and fair changes of the rules). We understand that the city is choosing a partner for long-term cooperation; a partner with whom it will understand each other. We want to be a competent partner for the city - political representation, professional bodies, residents and other stakeholders - throughout the process of preparing and drafting the new city master plan. We also consider our participation in the subsequent implementation of the new master plan (professional cooperation, education, ...) to be very important.

The Jury considers the proposal to be original and comprehensive and has confidence in the possibility of creating a plan that is unique, effective and very well suited to the specific needs and characteristics of the area. The Jury clearly sees in the proposal a future plan that offers flexibility and is able to respond to the requirements of sustainability, enabling population growth and improving the quality of the environment.