The American Chamber of Commerce in Albania organized a Working Lancheon with Mr. Edi Rama, Tirana Mayor, on "Tirana Municipality and the Business Community".

Tirana’s green areas are vanishing. The city’s construction chaos destroys future plans, making citizens uncomfortable even in front of their homes.  And every time City Hall tries to solve this urban chaos, it finds that those who occupy the property, land and territories have strange permits issued by the Commission for Returning and Compensation of Property, and so the chaos starts again from the beginning.

But now there is a new regulatory plan that aims to transform Tirana as one of the two central poles of a Tirana-Durres metropolis. The plan is expected to solve social issues through orderly urban construction.

Tirana Mayor Edi Rama laid down his vision of Tirana in 2020 at a working lunch with members of the American Chamber of Commerce.

Explaining the new regulatory plan for Albania’s capital, Mr. Rama said Tirana and Durres should be two poles of a powerful metropolitan area connected by a corridor of industrial areas, while the inner cities focus on residential areas and the service industry.

In order to achieve this, it is necessary to discipline construction without building permits, especially in vital areas for the capital where green spaces are being covered with concrete.

City Hall has decided to implement its long term plan by focusing on amendments in the local legislation through the approval of Tirana’s new regulatory plan and applying a metropolitan concept for the plan it is trying to promote.

The mayor said the city is also planning to build at least 10 large underground parking garages, in places like Avni Rustemi and Flora squares. These will serve to regulate traffic. Parallel to that, the plan calls for creating a unified structure of Traffic Police and Municipal Police to enforce and fine to anyone who breaks traffic rules.