The city of Vila Nova de Famalicão will stretch northwards, following the Urban Implementation Unit that is being prepared for the area surrounding the Palácio da Justiça and whose public discussion period runs until 10th of January. The City Hall held yesterday a clarification session about this urbanistic operation, which was attended by about seventy citizens, providing all the necessary clarifications and having collected a set of suggestions related to the process.
Following the proposal, which foresees an execution period of five years for its two phases, Avenida Engenheiro Pinheiro Braga will be doubled with two lanes for each side, and a bicycle path will be built, also on each side of the street, as well as pedestrian walkways and plating trees. The creation of two new roundabouts is also planned between the Santo António roundabout and the access roundabout to the Variante Nascente, in Gavião. Pinheiro Braga and Rua 20 de Junho, to access the D. Maria II Basic School, and a new street will be built between Rua Gavião Real and Rua de S. Vicente.
The water line that crosses the area and flows into the Ribeiro de Talvai will be renaturalised, with the rehabilitation of the riverbanks and the creation of pedestrian paths. Francisca Magalhães, director of the department of Planning and Urban Management of the City Hall, answered all questions and spoke of “a project that meets a harmonious urban development, a functional articulation, which ensures the fair distribution of benefits and burdens by the owners, as well as the integration of areas allocated for public spaces and equipment”.
In all, the main private developer, which owns more than 81,000 square metres of land at the site, will cede nearly 50% of that area for green areas and streets, in addition to being obliged to implement infrastructures, such as the requalification of the aforementioned avenue.
The citizens interested in participating in the public discussion have the documents available for analysis at the following link www.famalicao.pt/unidade-de-execucao-1---area-envolvente-ao-palacio-da-justica, and may formulate complaints, suggestions or observations, addressed to the President of the Municipal Council, through the email camaramunicipal@famalicao.pt or by post until January 10.