“We want this General Development Plan to contain a long-term and strategic vision of the city, that is the great objective. This General Development Plan will be built as established by law and will give rise to progressive and constant planning to achieve social, economic, territorial and environmental objectives,” Brugada stated on November 14.
Both the General Development Plan and the General Territorial Planning Program (PGOT), planning instruments inscribed in the capital’s Constitution, had to come into force four years ago, in October 2020.
One of the first steps towards its approval is to have a new head of the Institute of Planning, Democratic and Prospective (IPDP) of Mexico City, a position vacant for one year and nine months since the resignation of the first head, Pablo. Benlliure, who decided to leave office in February 2023.
This Tuesday the call was published to form a Selection Committee for the next head of the Planning Institute, after its last members resigned in September.
The committee must be made up of five people “of recognized probity and professional solvency” regarding planning.
They may be proposed by public and private universities in Mexico City, as well as professional associations, research institutes, civil society organizations and chambers related to city planning. Applications will be received from November 20 to December 4.
