Transcript RB county planning

Rail Baltic – state of
play in EE 2016
Kristjan Kaunissaare
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications
Rail Baltic coordinator
30.11.2016
RB county planning
• Three county plans according to government decree
from 2014 (Harju, Rapla and Pärnu counties)
• Altogether 213 kilometers of double track, cross border
section in Ikla vicinity
• Until now 76 public consultations with around 4000
participants
• Planning process finalized in Harju and Rapla counties,
Pärnu to follow by the end of January 2017
Publicity measures
Alignement in Estonia
Alignment in Harju and Rapla
counties
Alignment in
Pärnu county
• Last public hearings in
January 2017
• Surveillance process
with Ministry of
Finance to be started
after public hearings
• All county plans have
to be enforced by
respective county
governors
Environmental impact assessment
• Done on two levels – county plan level and pre-design
level
• Based on the SEA/EIA program and specific studies
(cultural heritage, nature, archeology, settlement)
• Handeled together with the county plans, similar public
consultation procedure
• Assessment is ready for surveillance by the Ministry of
Environment
• SEA/EIA is a prerequisite for the county plans to be
enforced
Pre-design
• Done hand in hand with the county plans
• Limiting the width of the county level railway corridor to
66 meters of land actually required for RB
• Principal solutions for the complete RB infrastructure –
railway, necessary access roads, bridges, viaducts,
electrification, signalling
• Ready to 100% in Pärnu county, Rapla will follow by
2017, Harju finalized in Q.1 of 2018
Bridges and viaducts 1
Bridges and viaducts 2
Ecoducts and pedestrian passes
Land acquisition
• Prerequisite is the pre-design and actual land needs
based on it; for expropriation purposes also the
enforced county plans
• Methods:
 Purchase of neccessary land
 Exchange of lands with state lands in the vicinity
 Exchange of lands between several owners
• Expropriation foreseen at most for 5% of acquired plots
• Land acquisition (negotiations, evaluation, measuring
etc) done by Estonian Land Board
Overall procedure
• Determination of needed land (based on pre-design +
additional measuring)
• Independent evaluation of the land (market value +
incurred/perspective loss and costs)
• Negotiations with the landowners on acquisition
methods – taylor made solutions
• Expropriation as last resort
Land purchase examples
Thank you!
Kristjan Kaunissaare
[email protected]