About Department
The reorganization of the Riga City Council City Development Department has been performed as of 1 January, 2009, pursuant to the Riga City Council Resolution of 13 May, 2008, On Reorganization of Riga Municipal Institutions – Establishment of the Riga City Construction Board and Reorganization of the Riga City Council City Development Department. At present, the City Development Department and the Riga City Construction Board operate as independent institutions, which are directly subordinate to the political supervision of the Riga City Council.
As a result of the reorganization, construction supervision has been separated from city development planning, which means the clear division of responsibility and the closer political supervision of the construction process by the Riga City Council.
Information is currently available on both institutions on the home page www.rdpad.lv, however, a separate home page for the Riga City Construction Board www.rpbv.lv is scheduled to be created during the current year.
Riga City Council City Development Department
The City Development Department is the leading Riga Municipal institution in the field of construction supervision territory planning, detailed planning, elaboration of amendments to these and their control.
The Department is an independent legal entity with its own balance and settlement account. Administratively, it is subordinate to the Riga City Council Chairman; the Department’s operation is monitored by the City Development Committee. The Department has been operating since 1994 in its current organizational and legal format, but the history of its functional predecessor dates back to the 1970s.
Mission of the Department:
To ensure the balanced development of the city of Riga in accordance with the interests of its residents and companies.
The Goals of our Activities:
To ensure legal and efficient management of the city development processes and to ensure the stable evolution of Riga. To facilitate the attraction of investments for Riga.
Vision – Today and in the Future:
We are open to new ideas, take reasoned and clear decisions for the harmonious development of the urban environment and quickly eliminate deficiencies in our work and in our communication with clients.
Main Objectives of the Department:
- Riga development planning;
- Determine the land usage and construction procedure in conformity with municipal territory planning;
- Elaborate and implement the territory planning, detailed planning and amendments to these;
- Promote the Riga city economic development and format the economic development strategy;
- Support the Riga geographic information system;
- Promote international cooperation of the city of Riga;
- Represent the interests of the city of Riga with regard to projects of the European Union and international institutions;
- Facilitate the initiation and start the elaboration of projects by creating and developing ideas of the projects in conformity with the Riga evolution strategic plans and actual needs of the residents.
Structurally, the Department consists of three structural units – the Board of Economics, the Urban Planning Board and the Administrative Department (further information is available in the section Department Structure).
The Quality Management System was established in the Department in 2006, which on 17 November of the same year received the international LVS EN ISO 9001:2000 Certificate. The system successfully operated since its establishment.
Safety Policy for Restricted Information
To guarantee the safety of intellectual property of City Development Department clients and the data of individuals, the Safety Policy for Restricted Information was developed in the Department in May 2006 and improved in January 2007. The goal of implementing this system is to arrange the totality of internal laws and regulations, organizational measures and the required technical devices of the Department in conformity with the requirements of legislation of the Republic of Latvia. This is to ensure the safe storage of the documents that contain confidential information and are received and prepared at the Department, the processing of the documents in strict accordance with legislation and the non-disclosure of the confidential information they contain.
The Safety Policy also determines the resolution of the Department officials and employees to observe the regulating requirements of legal acts in their work with confidential information, as well as the requirements of clients regarding the protection of information.
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