A sharp controversy has broken at the Prague’s city council. The mayor, Adriana Krnáčová, has come forward with her own version of the Prague’s construction regulations on which her deputy for city planning, Matěj Stropnický, has been working for some time already with a group of architects and experts. The city council has rejected Stropnicky’s version while approving Krnáčová’s. The mayor says her version consists of amendments to the existing construction regulation prepared by the city’s previous mayor, that were designed to meet the objections of the Ministry for regional development and the Antimonopoly Office.
While she did not inform Stropnický over her intentions, she now claims he has been too slow working on the regulation and did not communicate enough with the rest of the coalition. Hospodářské noviny writes that the fight could break apart the Prague’s ruling coalition that Stropnický has offered his resignation.
Prague’s construction regulations govern for example the height of new buildings in Prague, their parking capacity, density of the new development and location of advertisements on the buildings.
