{"id":31070,"date":"2020-12-09T21:20:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=31070"},"modified":"2020-12-09T21:20:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:20:14","slug":"bulawayo-unveils-new-four-year-master-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/bulawayo-unveils-new-four-year-master-plan","title":{"rendered":"Bulawayo Unveils New Four-Year Master Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Bulawayo Correspondent<\/b> &#8211; THE City of Bulawayo Tuesday unveiled an ambitious four-year Master Plan which is expected to transform the country\u2019s second largest local authority to a smart city by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the unveiling of the Master Plan, city Deputy Mayor Mlandu Ncube said the blueprint will focus on green energy and green building technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Bulawayo through the review of the Master Plans, seeks to be a leading, smart and transformative city status by 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to use the master planning approach in guiding development that meets the needs of the present generation without jeopardizing the future generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to focus in becoming a smart and sustainable city that is livable, inclusive and safe,\u201d said the city father.<\/p>\n<p>Ncube said the new Master Plan was informed by the city\u2019s quest to come up with sustainable solutions in its development.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Mayor said the local authority had already approved the setting up of solar farms at the city\u2019s cemeteries as part of the local authority\u2019s renewable energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>Bulawayo early this year engaged the Infrastructure Development Bank (IDB) to carry out feasibility studies on clean energy projects in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Said Ncube, \u201cAs a city, we have seen the need to have multi-use of land that is setting up solar farms in cemeteries, waterworks and sewer works.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this master plan review, the focus has been to ensure long term planning to guide local initiatives, ensure Green energy and green building technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The master plan was designed by Job Jika and Associates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Bulawayo Correspondent &#8211; THE City of Bulawayo Tuesday unveiled an ambitious four-year Master Plan which is expected to transform the country\u2019s second largest local authority to a smart city by 2024. Speaking at the unveiling of the Master Plan, city Deputy Mayor Mlandu Ncube said the blueprint will focus on green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,19],"class_list":["post-31070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-zimbabwe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bulawayo Unveils New Four-Year Master Plan - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/bulawayo-unveils-new-four-year-master-plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bulawayo Unveils New Four-Year Master Plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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