Sofia is not a bargaining chip and municipal property is not for giving away. Attempts to develop municipal land in "Mladost" are being renewed, but with new actors. This was stated by "Save Sofia" regarding a report submitted by the mayor of the district, which envisages a private investor building a 22-story building on land, 93% of which is municipal property for only 26% compensation.
"Save Sofia" defines this report as a significant abuse of municipal resources and calls for its immediate withdrawal. “This is not a new report - in 2022, an identical text was submitted by the then district mayor and municipal councilors from GERB, VMRO and DB,” explains arch. Rositsa Nikolova. A check in the archives of the municipal council shows that in the previous term, the municipal councilors who co-sponsored the report were Stefan Stefonov (mayor of the “Mladost” district in the previous term), Ivaylo Petkov and Vanya Tagareva (GERB), Carlos Contrera (VMRO) and Boris Milchev (DB).
The 2022 report was withdrawn by the architectural commission and did not even reach a vote. “This is probably why the chairman of the Sofia Municipal Council - Tsvetomir Petrov from We Continue the Change - helpfully did not distribute it to this commission,” added arch. Nikolova.
“The private investor participates with only 7% of the land, but receives 74% of the development. Even the estimates included in the report say that a fairer compensation is over 35%. We leave aside the effect of this building on the already overdeveloped Mladost - this is a midday robbery disguised as an investment,” commented Boris Bonev - chairman of "Save Sofia" and explained that the submitters of this report are Mayor Ivaylo Kukurin and Dragomir Dragomirov - both of whom left We continue the change with accusations against the party that it is involved in corruption schemes. “The complicity of the chairman of the SOS in this attempt to push the report through without a professional debate in the relevant committee is the highest form of cynicism,” commented Bonev.