1. / BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE CITY INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2007-2009 / 5
2. / GOALS OF THE CITY INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2007-2009 / 5
3. / ANALYSIS OF THE CITY RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND ITS USE / 6
3.1. / General information on the city and its location / 6
3.2. / Natural and raw material potentials of the city / 7
- / Raw material resources / 7
- / Water resources / 8
- / Climate / 8
- / Tourist and recreational resources / 8
- / Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, and perspectives / 9
3.3. / Production potential / 10
- / Industry / 10
- / Construction system / 15
- / Transport, roads, communications / 15
- / Commerce, restaurant system, human personal services / 16
- / Municipal housing economy / 16
- / Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, perspectives, and risks / 18
3.4. / Labor potential, employment and labor market / 20
- / Public income, salary / 20
- / Employment, labor-market / 20
- / Social security / 21
- / Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, perspectives, and risks / 21
3.5. / Business development / 21
- / Normative legal support and regulatory activity / 21
- / Financial support / 22
- / Resource provision / 23
- / Information provision / 23
- / Formation and development of small enterprise infrastructure support / 23
- / Development of financial and investment sector / 23
- / Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, perspectives, and risks / 23
3.6. / Social and humanitarian spheres / 24
- / Health care / 24
- / Education / 24
- / Labor and social protection administration / 25
- / The City Centre of family, child and youth social services / 25
- / Culture / 25
- / Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities, perspectives, and risks / 26
4. / CURRENT SITUATION AND TENDENCIES OF INVESTMENT ACTIVITY, COLLABORATION / 26
5. / INVESTMENT PRIORITIES / 30
6. / ADMINISTRATIVE RESOLUTIONS AND THE MEANS OF ENHANCING INVESTMENT EFFECTIVENESS / 30
- / Development of investment coordination system in the region, formation of necessary infrastructure, improvement of administrative and personnel policy in the field / 30
- / Development of regulatory activity in the field of investments / 30
- / Creation of favorable physical conditions to engage investments / 31
- / Elaboration and implementation of the single regional marketing strategy, improvement of investor service system / 31
7. / PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS PROGNOSIS / 32
8. / LIST OF THE CITY GROUND LANDS FOR LONG-TERM LEASE OR FOR SALE BY AUCTION / 33
9. / INVESTMENT OFFERS / 63
10. / PLAN OF ACTION AS TO THE REALISATION OF THE CITY INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2007-2009 / 70

1.  BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE CITY INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2007-2009

Dubno City Investment Development Program for 2007-2009 (Further on in the text – Program) was elaborated by Economic and Property Department of Dubno Town Council on the basis of strategic priorities of the city investment development.

The Program elaborators counted the basic principles of other existing programs, e.g. such as those directed towards development of small businesses, economic, social, industrial, international, and other local programs over the course from 2007 to 2010.

The Program elaborators referred to the legal provisions of Ukraine’s current legislation.

The Program determines the goals of the city investment development, provides the analysis of the city resource potential, the current state and basic tendencies of investment activity; suggests the means of enhancing investment climate.

2.  GOALS OF THE CITY INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR 2007-2009

Imperative strategic goals are as follows:

·  modernization of the city economy and reinforcement of the competitive strength of local production at internal and external markets;

·  combined use and preservation of natural raw material resources; observance of ecological requirements; enhancement of the effectiveness of the region’s transit, tourist, and recreation potentials use;

·  resolution to unemployment problem;

·  essential growth of the city inhabitants’ income as well as enhancement of services quality in social and humanitarian spheres in order to meet the European standards.

Realization of the abovementioned goals is only possible by engaging profound investments, implementing advanced technologies and progressive standards of production management.

The Program aims at creating single politics in investment sphere and entails concerted efforts of the city self-governing, enterprises, administrative offices and organizations in order to improve investment attractiveness of the city and the corresponding regulatory activity.

3.  ANALYSIS OF THE CITY RESOURCE POTENTIAL AND ITS USE

3.1.  General information on the city and its location

The first mention of Dubno town encounters in Ipatiivsky chronicle in 1100. In 1498, Dubno obtained Magdeburg Order along with the permission to organize a bazaar.

Dubno is a city of oblast’ subordination, the regional centre in Rivne oblast’. Situated in the South-Western part of the oblast’ at Volyn and Podilla Hills, on the Ikva-river.

The neighbor towns are: Kremenets’, Radyvyliv, Rivne, Lutsk, Mlyniv, Zdolbuniv, Ostroh.

Fig. 1. Geographic location of the city in Rivne oblast’

3.2.  Natural and raw material potentials of the city

Land resources

Total area of the city is 2704 ha.

The city lands according to their purpose fall into the following categories:

agricultural purpose – 1474,7 ha, including in its turn:

·  arable land – 811.3 ha

·  perennial plantations –124.2 ha

·  haylofts – 185.8 ha

·  pastures – 289.7 ha

land under constructions – 1137.4 ha, including:

·  one-/two-storey constructions – 366.8 ha

·  industrial land – 189.3 ha

·  public use – 146.0 ha

·  commercial use – 34.4 ha

·  communications – 113.2 ha

·  inventory of water resources – 48.2 ha

·  lands of historical and cultural significance – 6.2 ha

Total proportion to the oblast’ area amounts to 0.135 %.

Top-soil of the city and surroundings varies. Almost all top-soils do not detain detrimental salts.

(The list of ground lands for long-term lease or auction sales is given in the Part 8 of the Program)

Raw material resources

1.  Sugar-refinery (raw material resource for the city food industry is sugar)

2.  Mills (raw material resource for the city food industry is flour)

3.  Available raw material resource for metal manufacture enterprises (“LMZ Ispolin” ltd.) is scrap-metal (restricted re-supply as a result of intensive use)

4.  Daughter Enterprise “Interforest” and Daughter Enterprise “Lisoprosóchuval’nyk” use Dubno Forestry timber for arranging timber production

5.  Open Joint-Stock Company “Dubno Construction Materials” uses local deposits of limestone and sand for arranging reinforced-concrete production

6.  Dubno Juvenile Prison use the following local raw material resources: non-sifted sand – for the production of construction blocs; sand (sand deposits of Dubno rayon); timber for woodwork (limited in quantity), plantations for besom manufacturing

7.  Public Utility Company “Dubno Public Energy” (heating company) uses local raw material resource – milled peat

8.  For public water supply Public Utility Company “Dubno Water Canal” uses 3 water supply points, situated in the city area. At present, 12 water boreholes are exploited out of total 14

Water resources

The city stands on the river Ikva which belongs to the Dnipro basin. The Ikva is a lowland river with a slow stream, meliorated in the city area. The highest water content is registered in spring. The river is fed by minor tributaries and precipitations. The river’s length is 155 km.

In the city there are also 27 artificial ponds with a total area of 20 ha. The area of natural water reservoirs amounts to 22 ha.

Climate

The type of present climate is semi-continental. The basic features: relatively high air moisture, little temperature fluctuations, moderately warm summer, mild winter with frequent defrosting. Wind direction varies in summer and winter. In summer winds are predominantly north-western and western, in winter – western and south-western.

Tourist and recreational resources

Departments of the City Council work on steady improvement of the tourism indexes and recreational activity in the city. For this purpose, several sights of tourist interest were included into Dubno Historical and Cultural Reserve and listed for investment and renovation. Those are:

·  The Castle of the Princes Ostrozky, built in XV-XVIII centuries (The palace of the princes Ostrozky, the palace of the princes Liubomyrsky, Super-Gate corps).

·  Lutsk Gate, since the XVI c.

·  Synagogue, since the XVI c.

·  Spasivska Church, built in 1643.

·  Yuriivska Church, since the XVIII c.

·  Polish church, since the XIX c.

·  Polish Bernardino Church and its monastic cells, since the XVII c.

·  Hellenic Cathedral, the early XX c.

·  Temporal buildings of the XVIII-XIX c. in the city centre.

Dubno Historical and Cultural Reserve also comprises Dubno Museum of Local Lore.

Excursions available:

·  Overview tour around the medieval castles.

·  Maiden (Divocha) Tower.

·  Topic exhibitions.

The city tourist routes available:

·  “In the Tracks of Taras Bulba”.

·  “In the Streets of the Ancient Dubno”.

·  “Cathedrals and Monasteries of Dubno”.

The city rayon (district) tourist routes available:

·  “Tarakániv Fortification” – a unique fortification construction of the late XIX c. (Tarakaniv, Dubno rayon).

·  “Cossacks’ Redoubt” – a memorial spot of Berestéchko Battle (1651), where the Cossacks of Bohun are buried (betwixt the villages of Ploska and Semyduby, Dubno rayon).

·  “Lystvýn Settlement”, since the times of Kyiv Rus’.

·  “St. Anna’s Spring” (Onýshkvitsi, Dubno rayon).

·  “Taras’s Spring” (Pidlúzhia, Dubno rayon).

·  The Memorial “Cossacks’ Tombs” (Pliashevá, Dubno rayon, Radyvýliv rayon).

·  Trips to the cities of Krémenets’ and Pocháiv.

Criteria of quantity and quality of the policy effectiveness

Indexes / 2004 / 2005 / 2006 / 2007 (est.)
Internal tourism / 4500 people / 5200 people / 5600 people / 6000 people


Advantages (ref. to the Section 3.2 Natural and raw material potentials of the city):

1.  Proximity of forestry resources, which adds to the development of timber and furniture industry and, along with extensive water resources, of tourist and recreational activity.

2.  Compiled database of agricultural and non-agricultural lands, including the ground lands for tender sale.

3.  Proximity to the local deposits of peat, wood, limestone, sand, and other; availability of necessary energy potentials and networks.

4.  Water storage is sufficient for normal functioning and development of industry and municipal housing economy.

5.  Favorable climate conditions.

6.  Geographical location on the crossroad of international highways; advanced transport infrastructure.

7.  Sights of historical and cultural interest.

Disadvantages:

1.  Insufficient area of vacant large-sized non-agricultural lands to be proposed for a potential investor.

2.  Present ameliorative systems require reconstruction.

3.  Poor implementation of advanced recycling technologies.

4.  Restricted financial devices for proper maintenance of local land-field and recycling of municipal waste.

Opportunities and perspectives:

1.  Combined law-waste use of raw material resources.

2.  Implementation of wasteless, low-water and waterless technologies in all branches of production; guaranteeing of the citizens’ well-being.

3.  Development of tourist and recreational infrastructure and road service system.

4.  Building and capital renovation of the local roads.

5.  Implementation of advanced recycling technologies in all branches of production and the citizens’ well-being; in municipal housing economy, food industry, and agricultural recycling.

6.  Combined actions in order to preserve historical and cultural monuments; to create appropriate conditions for the citizens’ leisure.

Risks:

1.  Delays with the amendments to the Land Law-Book of Ukraine and to the corresponding decrees of the Ministry Cabinet in order to facilitate land trade procedures.

2.  Further uncertainties with the sales of non-agricultural lands.

3.  Insufficient effectiveness of nature-conservative measures and the measures aimed at preserving cultural heritage, which may result in the fall of the city’s attractiveness for tourists.

Fig.2. The City's Industrial Activities General Performance

8. LIST OF THE CITY GROUND PLOTS FOR LONG-TERM LEASE OR FOR SALE BY AUCTION

Ground plot #1

Location / Between Schóholiva and Hírnytska str.
Total area, m2 / 100,000.0
Possible destination / Offered for multi- and single-storey apartment and public building
Building draft / -
Terms of investment / Long-term lease or sale by auction
Price, UAH per 1 m2 / 46.4
Total sum, thousands UAH
(standard pecuniary valuation) / 4,640.0
Water supply / Municipal water-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point , m / 700
Sewerage / Municipal sewer network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 700
Gas supply / Municipal gas-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 200
Electric power supply / Municipal electric network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 300
Distance from the railway, km / 2.5 (from the railway station)
Distance from Rivne, km / 46
Distance from the highway, km / 3.5
Other info / Faces the railroad on its south-eastern part with an exit to Semydubska str.


Ground plot #2

Location / Mélnyka str.
Total area, m2 / 130,000.0
Possible destination / Offered for multi- and single-storey apartment and public building
Building draft / -
Terms of investment / Long-term lease or sale by auction
Price, UAH per 1 m2 / 31.68
Total sum, thousands UAH
(standard pecuniary valuation) / 4,118.4
Water supply / Municipal water-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point , m / 600
Sewerage / Municipal sewer network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 1,300
Gas supply / Municipal gas-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 500
Electric power supply / Municipal electric network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 400
Distance from the railway, km / 2.0 (from the railway station)
Distance from Rivne, km / 52
Distance from the highway, km / 0.8
Other info / From its south-eastern part has an exit to Kremenetskastr., adjacent to the nationwide highway Domanove – Kovel – Ternopil – Mamalyha

Ground plot #3

Location / Hrushévskoho str.
Total area, m2 / 7,000.0
Possible destination / Offered for multi-storey dwelling building
Building draft / -
Terms of investment / Long-term lease or sale by auction
Price, UAH per 1 m2 / 60.03
Total sum, thousands UAH
(standard pecuniary valuation) / 420.42
Water supply / Municipal water-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point , m / 50
Sewerage / Municipal sewer network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 50
Gas supply / Municipal gas-supply network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 50
Electric power supply / Municipal electric network
Distance from the hook-up point, m / 20
Distance from the railway, km / 1.3 (from the railway station)
Distance from Rivne, km / 45
Distance from the highway, km / 2.5
Other info / Situated on the territory of multi-storey dwelling building

Ground plot #4