Framework plan city centre
Chemnitz residents can take part in the dialogue
What will the city centre of tomorrow look like? The city administration wants to address this question together with the urban community in the "City Centre Framework Plan" process and develop a strategy concept by the end of 2024 that identifies key action modules for sustainable revitalisation and crisis-proof strengthening of the city centre.
City centres are the crystallisation point of public life. They traditionally combine and negotiate a variety of uses at the same time. These include cultural offerings, tourist highlights as well as diverse places of work and residential neighbourhoods. The city centre of Chemnitz is also the "heart" of public life - for the city and the region. It creates identity, shapes the image, is a "calling card" and is therefore of immense value for the city as a whole.
Increased online retail, the pandemic-driven acceleration of this revolution, digitalisation, climate change with increasingly hot summers and demographic change are changing city centres. Chemnitz city centre is also facing these challenges. Brick-and-mortar retail is under threat, existing building structures and familiar mixes of uses are being called into question.
Framework plan to provide guidelines for development
Under the title "My Chemnitz - our centre. Making the centre the centre together", the transformation of Chemnitz city centre is highlighted as one of Chemnitz's key tasks for the future in the integrated urban development concept "INSEK Chemnitz 2035". The update of the INSEK is currently in the final phase.
Based on the objectives of the INSEK, a guideline for the development of Chemnitz city centre is being developed with the framework plan. In a first step, various future scenarios will be developed by spring 2024, which, after discussion and evaluation, will result in a mission statement for the city centre. Based on this, specific projects and urban development measures will be derived for implementation by the end of 2024. Once the framework plan has been finalised and approved by the city council, probably in the second quarter of 2025, the concept will serve as a guide for the coming years.
The creation of the framework plan will be coordinated by the urban planning office together with the business division and developed in a dialogue-oriented process with the specialist departments of the administration, the urban community and key players such as owners, cultural workers, tradespeople and stakeholders. Various communication and working formats are planned for this purpose. The (interim) results are to be presented and discussed in various workshops.
The first participation formats took place from December 2023. At a public kick-off event, the upcoming planning process was explained and interested citizens were given the opportunity to contribute their own perceptions and experiences.
2. online participation starts
All Chemnitz residents are invited to take part in the 2nd online dialogue on the city centre framework plan until 13 September.
Via the interactive map dialogue, the proposals collected in previous participation formats can be viewed, thoughts and suggestions shared, commented on or further measures proposed.
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