Mayor Karácsony wants to create a 21st century, green, modern district of Rákosrendező in Budapest

The Budapest metropolitan council is asking the government to draft a separate law on the Rákosrendező investment project to provide for the legislation needed to regulate “the most important project of the past half century”, the city’s mayor said on Monday.

The city council wants to develop a “21st century, green, new area” in Rákosrendező, Gergely Karácsony said on Facebook, adding, at the same time, that today the creation of such a “car-free, affordable district with a positive energy balance faces several legal hurdles”.

“That is why we are exercising the right we inherited from the Arab investors and asking the government to draft a separate Rákosrendező law with the legislation needed to regulate the most important investment project of the past half century,” he said. Karácsony said a “range of obsolete laws would have to be changed”, regulating matters like the number of parking spaces that had to be built, rainwater drainage and the placement of solar panels.