Hippodrome owners are not allowed to change the zone of the facility

Konkur-Perm LLC and La Terra LLC, the owners of the Perm hippodrome, once again tried to change the zoning of the property in order to build it up with a shopping center and housing. Yesterday the city commission turned them down. The process of developing the territory is blocked by the regional government: to build a hippodrome, investors must build a new facility. As Kommersant found out, the negotiation process may break down - the authorities decided to put forward obviously impossible conditions to investors.

Yesterday, the city commission for land use and development reviewed applications to change the zoning of the hippodrome (several areas on Kosmonavtov Highway, 162). The co-owner of the site, Konkur-Perm LLC, made a proposal to establish a territorial zone of service and business activity of local importance (C-2) on land plots with a total area of about 20 hectares. As stated in the company's explanation, with the current zoning (zone TS-3 - sports and sports and entertainment facilities), it cannot realize its intentions. We are talking about the construction of sports facilities for an equestrian school, the construction of multi-apartment residential buildings of 5–16 floors and above, multifunctional business and service facilities in combination with residential buildings, multifunctional business and service buildings, hotels, shops, and consumer service facilities.

The second applicant for the hippodrome was La Terra LLC, affiliated with the capital's holding company RosEuroDevelopment (according to kartoteka.ru , since June of this year La Terra has been headed by the ex-head of RosEuroDevelopment-Ufa and RED-Privolzhye Alfiya Gagina). The investor proposed to establish on land plots with a total area of about 12 hectares either a recreational areas service center zone (Ts-4) “subject to simultaneous inclusion in the list of the main types of permitted use of shopping centers and shopping and entertainment complexes,” or a wholesale trade zone, open markets ( Ts-5), or any other zone where it is possible to locate shopping and shopping and entertainment complexes, shopping, entertainment and sports centers. La Terra's explanation states that a shopping and entertainment center is planned to be located on the sites.

Denis Galitsky, a member of the land use and development commission, told Kommersant that both applicants were rejected. “This is not the first application. Previously, the commission had already made decisions that it was proposed to establish a special new zone TS-I (hippodrome zone) at the hippodrome,” explained Kommersant’s interlocutor.

The current owners of the hippodrome have been trying since last year to change its zoning in order to develop the facility. This process was actually blocked by Governor Viktor Basargin, who even asked city manager Anatoly Makhovikov to establish a CS-I zone for the territory, where only a new hippodrome could be built. At the last moment, the head of the administration withdrew this project from the Duma.

In exchange for the new area, the racetrack owners must build a new facility. It was assumed that it would be built on the site of Selkhoztsentr LLC, close to Legislative Assembly deputy Yuri Borisovets, in the area of the equestrian complex of the former stud farm in the village of Ferma. On the basis of this property complex, a regional center for the development of the Oryol breed should be created.

The parties decided to sign a quadripartite agreement last summer. However, the approval process took a long time; in winter, the regional authorities proposed a site near the Frolovo airfield for a new hippodrome. One of the last versions of the agreement assumed that the construction of the hippodrome would still be carried out on the lands of the former stud farm on the Farm and would begin simultaneously with the process of rezoning the site on the Cosmonauts Highway.

According to Kommersant, the regional authorities decided to change the draft agreement. Now officials have decided to return to the site next to the Frolovo airfield - here this summer, officials presented a project for a regional agrotechnopark to the leadership of the Volga Federal District during the district agricultural fair. According to the plan of the provincial authorities, the hippodrome will become the main enterprise of the agricultural technology park. Moreover, the regional authorities decided to require the investor to build a full-fledged hippodrome - with a track of 1600 meters. The size of the plot on the Farm does not allow for the construction of a hippodrome of this size.

Prime Minister of the region Gennady Tushnolobov told Kommersant that the authorities are considering two options - reconstruction of the hippodrome (option with the village of Ferma - Kommersant) and construction of a new one. In his opinion, the authorities are more inclined to the second option. The head of the Cabinet noted that a change in zoning can only take place after the construction of a new facility.

Such conditions will most likely be unacceptable to investors, and this will completely derail the deal. A source at Konkur-Perm LLC told Kommersant that on the site in Frolovo, due to the presence of an airfield nearby, it is impossible to build buildings higher than six meters. Yuri Borisovets does not know about the regional government’s proposal for a new site for the hippodrome. He only confirmed that he was ready to provide a plot of land on the Farm.

Vyacheslav Sukhanov

Confrontation – Kommersant Perm