LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR TBILISI ... - LED

number of micro bus taxis (“marshutka”) in the central street of the capital with
civic buses, although set of factors bias the normal functioning of the public
transport (the model of acquired buses; discrepancies of traffic organization –
for example “transport triangle of the Vera district”; ignoring the interests of
pedestrians, mainly the disabled persons; low rate of discipline among the
drivers and pedestrians; non-existence of automobile residences, etc. ).
Improvement of Tbilisi city transport system will be facilitated by implementing
recommendations on the basis of international contest, presentation of which
is expected in May.
As for external transport, activities for rehabilitation of the Tbilisi central railway
station arebeing performed; construction of railway branch from Kakheti line to
newly built airport is expected to start; Although non-existence of the
technical-economic documentation and miscalculation of the project in the
layer of regional planning must be considered as a serious discrepancy.
Under the conditions of distributing real estate, most attractive advantage of
the industrial objects was considered to be territories occupied by the latest. It
was particularly essential in the central zones and the ones near it. In the
years of Independence most part of the Tbilisi industrial objects stopped
functioning; Engines and equipments were sold as black scrap metals; And
the buildings itself in terms of modern technologies, didn’t make any sense
anymore. Instead of it, increased the interests of the builders to the territories
occupied by the above mentioned objects. On some of this territory already is
implementing construction of commercial housing (for example, silk weaving
plant territory in Vera district). Together with this, still exist such large industrial
zones, which don’t yet rise interest among developers (for instance, industrial
zone of Ulianovka); Converse of such zones would be facilitated in the case of
supporting steps taken by state/city.
Tbilisi, as a capital of the country takes functions of the central and city
government, which is reflected in the location of administrative institutional
structures and relevant objects.
Central functions are mainly gathered in the center of Tbilisi, but also there are
some exceptions. The example of territorial decentralization effort is the
Constitutional Court, moving of which was planned at first in the direction to
the city of Mtskheta and now to the city of Kutaisi. New residence of the
President of Georgia is being built in the district of Avlabari, which has a
prospect for urban renewal.
As for the city administration, as a result of new reform “Greater Tbilisi”
consists of 7 administrational districts. Their overwhelming sizes and the
difficulties with access to the district administrations (so-called “gamgeoba”)
doesn’t respond to such fundamental principles of the local self-government
as subsidiary and, also the historically formed tradition of structuring Tbilisi
territory as natural community.
Current radical reforms in the educational system was reflected in the
territorial localization of educational and upbringing establishments of various
level and rate. If early, in the Soviet period, nursery schools of children and
secondary schools networks, basically, served the population living near
them, today under the conditions of educational objects privatization and
abolishment of the records, the importance of their profile and financial terms
of teaching are emphasized.