EMBRACE PHYSICAL PLANNING, COUNTY TOLD

Jan 20, 2015 Ivy Keziah Kisumu, News, Regional 0

County Governments have been urged to embrace physical planning to enhance competition within the various counties to attract more investors.

Speaking during the official opening of a Regional stakeholder’s workshop on the national spatial plan at the sunset hotel, the Kisumu County Governor Jack Ranguma said that the County is determined to partner with the National Land Commission in ensuring that plans are not only prepared but also periodically reviewed and implemented.

According to the governor, Kisumu County has identified various opportunities including Lake Victoria that offers incomparable sceneries to rich cultural heritage sites and this he notes requires a structured frame work to facilitate rational planning at the county, sub-county and local levels.

However, reading the speech on behalf of the EBS Director of physical planning Mr. Augustine Masinde, the Dep. Director Mr. Timothy Mwangi said that planning the national space provides a basis for investments and suitable utilization of natural resources thus taking into account the local land use practices.

Mwangi further noted that the national spatial plan is important as it enables the realization of the constitutional principles of equity, sustainable development as well as the principle of land policy of efficiency, productivity and suitability.

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