Almaty maslikhat approves city’s new 2040 General Layout

During an extraordinary session of the municipal maslikhat, Mayor of the city Yerbolat Dossayev said the new general layout had been for the first time widely discussed together with the city residents, public organizations and expert communities. Over 1,380 comments were submitted. Most of them concern creation of comfortable urban environment, ecology improvement and ensuring security.

The previous general layout was developed more than 20 years ago. Since then the city has grown twofold, both in terms of territory and the number of residents.

The new general layout aims at transition to a polycentric model of development and creation of 5 new polycentres with a developed housing, social, transport and engineering infrastructure.

According to the document authors, the number of population of Almaty will reach 2.5 million by 2030, 3 million – by 2040 and 3.6 million by 2050.