local agenda 21 local plan for sustainable development of bistriþa ...

BISTRITA
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FOREWORD
by the Mayor of Bistrita Municipality
Local Agenda 21 – The Sustainable Development Strategy of Bistrita Municipality for the period 2005 - 2015
proposes a vision of the necessity of economic and social development with coordinated environmental protection and
improvements.
Prosperity is an acronym well chosen by the staff who worked on this Local Agenda 21 plan. The vision of
development for the medium and long term in Bistrita municipality has as primary aim the finding of an optimum
strategy to ensure PROSPERITY for all members of the community.
Protection of the environment, urban Regeneration, Occupying the labour force, quality Services in administration,
education, health, public services, public-private Partnership, Economy of resources, Rehabilitation of the historic
centre, city and transport Infrastructure, tourism and leisure, attracting and encouraging investments, Transparency of
decisions, equality of opportunity, economic and social cohesion – all these represent the multitude of issues and
objectives Bistrita is striving to achieve.
One of the most generous objectives in this endeavour is that of stimulating co-operation between the public
administration and civil society, teaching citizens to become directly involved in the decision making process – not just
accepting the administration’s decisions – and to identify optimum solutions to problems directly affecting their
standard of living.
I am convinced that with the aid of this project Bistrita has strong chances of becoming a successful example of the
sustainable development concept in the near future, in the Romania of the 21 st century.
I wish to thank everyone who contributed to this document, which will be decisive in what Bistrita is to become in the
coming years.
Mayor
Eng. Vasile Moldovan