Who will decide how to develop nearly 700 hectares in northern Lviv

In Lviv, a development strategy for Zboyishcha and Zamarstyniv is being developed.

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Lviv is developing projects for the development of the Zboyishcha and Zamarstyniv area – nearly 700 hectares in the northern part of the city. European and Ukrainian architects are working on five projects. This large-scale project also includes a steering and an advisory council. This is stated on the website "Lviv North Test Planning".

Who is on the steering council and what is its task

The steering council, as stated on the website, is the formal decision-making body. It directs the procedure for forming development scenarios for the territory and approves key stages of the process. The steering council does not participate directly in the design phase and delegates operational work to the project team and other participants.

List of the steering council

Andriy Sadovyi — Mayor of Lviv.
Andriy Moskalenko — First Deputy Mayor, Vice-Mayor for Economic Development, Acting Vice-Mayor for Housing and Communal Services.
Iryna Kulynych — Vice-Mayor for Humanitarian Affairs.
Yevhen Boiko — Chairman of the Executive Committee.
Iryna Marunyak — Vice-Mayor for Accessibility.
Liubomyr Zubach — Vice-Mayor for Urban Planning.
Representative of the "European Solidarity" faction
Representative of the "Self-Reliance Union" faction
Representative of the "Varta" faction
Representative of the "Holos" faction
Representative of the "All-Ukrainian
Union "Svoboda"

Who is on the advisory council and what is its task

The advisory council moderates the process and supports the planning teams during the active phases of forming territory development scenarios. The advisory council is headed by an appointed moderator and forms a joint recommendation for the steering council after the process is completed. Planning teams will interact with the advisory council during design workshops and review phases.

List of the advisory council

Anton Kolomieitsev — Chief Architect of Lviv, Director of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning. Represents the city of Lviv and ensures the integration of the Test Planning process into the city planning system.
Oleksandr Kobzarev — Executive Director, Charitable Foundation "UNBROKEN", Lviv.
Oleh Zabarylo — Director of the Department of City Mobility and Street Infrastructure, Lviv City Council.
Taras Kubai — Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Construction, Urban Planning Office of Lviv City Council; coordinated modular temporary housing projects.
Petr Navrat — Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute, leading expert in urban regeneration and public participation in the Czech Republic, managing partner of ONplan, moderator of the Test Planning of Northern Lviv.
Katrin Gügler — Director of the City Planning Office of Zurich, has experience in urban development and high-quality strategic planning in Swiss cities.
Johannes Tovatt — Swedish architect and urbanist, Creative Director at Tovatt Architects & Planners (part of Sweco), chief designer of the Seestadt Aspern urban development project in Vienna.
Monika Konrad — architect and urbanist with experience in Europe and Asia, extraordinary professor at the Brno University of Technology, deputy director of the Department of Architecture and Spatial Planning of the City of Warsaw.
Martin Arfalk — founder of the urban design and landscape architecture firm Mandaworks in Malmö, Sweden.
Burkhard Horn — expert in urban mobility and transport planning, former head of the transport department of the Berlin Senate, currently an independent consultant.
Yurii Stoliarov — Chief Architect of SE "Mistoproekt", known for conceptual planning projects in Lviv.
Ihor Mohyla — PhD in Technical Sciences, expert in urban mobility, sustainable transport, and road safety, with over ten years of experience in Ukraine.

As a reminder, Tvoe Misto attended the presentation of master plans by five international architecture teams representing development strategies for Zboishcha and Zamarkstyniv in the "Northern Lviv" project, which generated colossal interest among the residents of these territories. In such a large-scale project, the authorities promise to take people's opinions into account. When the big plans for Northern Lviv became known, Tvoe Misto reported on the chronic problems of this part of Lviv. About how the residents of Zboishcha and Zamarkstyniv want to see the territory of their districts, which social infrastructure problems concern them the most, what complaints they voice to the city authorities, as well as the specific solutions of the architectural teams that presented their concepts for the development of northern Lviv read here.

We also wrote in more detail about the project, which residents named the most environmentally friendly among those proposed for "Northern Lviv".