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SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY FOR GDYNIA

Gdynia has not started Agenda 21 formally, but the idea is realised in the city on the basis of the document called "Strategic Plan for Gdynia. Development Objectives and Executive Tasks". The overreaching goal declared by the municipal government is to achieve a steady, publicly acceptable and sustainable development in order to match European Union standards of living, through the most favourable utilisation of its natural, human, financial and location resources.

Taking on the responsibility of democratic management in market economy conditions, the municipality initiated the work on a strategic plan of local socio-economic development in 1992, through the Baltic Gateways project. Four local working groups were created to prepare the Baltic Gateways Conference. These working groups gathered civil servants, councillors and representatives of major enterprises, science and research institutes and trade chambers.

In 1994 the City Board and the City Council adopted the "Strategic Plan for Gdynia - Conditions and Aims of Development" as a legal act. External consultants were engaged in the next stage of local strategic planning on a much broader scale than before. Six branch teams were appointed to deal with economy, housing, education, transportation, social problems and ecology.

The results were presented to the councillors, officials from the City Hall and guests at the workshops. The outcome of the discussion, which took place during the workshops, laid the groundwork for the diagnosis of the city's development. That stage of the work concluded with a series of six sector seminars, attended by civil servants, councillors, external experts and representatives of local enterprises, research and science institutes.

The above mentioned groups were surveyed in order to establish the most important and urgent tasks. As a result of the survey the final version of the "Strategic Plan for Gdynia" was drawn up. The most important goals of development were urban centre of economic growth, environmentally friendly city, and safe, useful and open city.

Practical examples of LA 21 realisation in Gdynia are:

  • launching public information and consciousness raising actions to introduce the local solid waste treatment system
  • completion of sewer piping in built-up areas
  • elimination of local coal-fired boiler plants by connecting the given areas to the district heating network
  • completion of the bus stock replacement, purchase of environmentally friendly buses and trolley-buses
  • completion of the air monitoring network in Gdynia
  • filling of the gaps between built-up space connected to municipal infrastructure systems
  • consideration of green development in the preparatory process of local spatial planning

Further information:

Ms Barbara Pastuszak
Head of Environmental Protection Department
City of Gdynia
Phone:
+48 58 620 72 71
Fax:
+48 58 620 97 98
e-mail:
umgdyfor@miasto.gdynia.pl
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