Kisumu ISUD - Rapport Populaire

KISUMU ISUD-PLANPUBLIC PRESENTATIONApril, 2014

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FOREWORD

The initiation of the Kisumu Integrated Strategic Urban Development Plan (ISUD) is in line with the County development priorities as artic-ulated in the County Government Act, Urban Areas and Cities Act, Physical Planning Act, the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Pa-per, among others. At the international level, it makes reference to the global goals of “sustainable human settlements in an urbanizing world”; and the Millennium Development Goals. This corresponds with the mandatory requirement in the Constitution of Kenya in en-suring that all human settlements are appropriately planned to facil-itate socioeconomic development of all the regions of the country. The Plan focuses on spatial aspects of development, in the context of socio-economic environment. The overall goal of the ISUD-Plan is to provide a framework for Kisumu’s growth and development and to endow those in charge with both the knowledge and the tools to address the challenges of urban growth and local development for a period of 15 to 20 years.

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The approach used in preparing the Plan provided an opportunity to open up dialogue among the various development partners. The real challenge at hand is to develop a sustainable framework for imple-menting the Plan. The County Government of Kisumu is committed to facilitating the process of preparing a sustainable implementation framework. It is my hope that this plan will make a big and positive difference in the lives of the people of the County of Kisumu and the East Africa region at large.

H.E. JACK N. RANGUMAGOVERNOR

The planning approach used in preparing the ISUD-Plan is an op-portunity to further improve the participatory planning methodology, which it has embraced. The approach was all inclusive, providing for direct involvement of the local people in identifying development issues; and consultation with various stakeholders and formation of partnerships with diverse local and international development partners. In the context of this Plan, the vision of the City of Kisu-mu is to be “A vibrant City , on the shores of the largest fresh wa-ter lake in Africa, able to accommodate & control growth while sup-porting the development of a multi-polar city through leveraging its economic assets in Industrial Processing, Knowledge Produc-tion, Ultra Modern Transport System and Green Cultural Tourism”.

Partnerships that were built with strategic partners, especially Agence Française de Développement - AFD, Maseno University and the UN-Habitat among others, should be sustained for the benefit of all involved. It is hoped that lessons learnt in the preparation of this Plan will add to the pool of experiences in the County and Country at large. The teamwork among the planners in the County and City Planning Departments and their counterparts from the various line ministries, academic institutions, regional bodies, Nodalis Conseil and other de-velopment agencies, demonstrated during the preparation of the plan should be seen as a starting point towards implementation of the plan.


Four major public forums

Acceptance ofInception Report

Nov.2012

Sept.2012

Aug.2013

Jan. 2014

Oct.2013

Nov.2013

Technical Meeting on ISUD-Plan

Urban inventory and SurveyFocus Group Discussion

Consultations process

Key technical meetings :

March2014

Request forpublic comments

THE PLAN TIMELINE


EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Integrated Strategic Urban Development Plan (ISUD-Plan) has been developed at the instigation of the Kenyan Ministry of local gov-ernments (MoLG) and the Kisumu County Government, previously as Kisumu Municipal Council (KMC) with the support of the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Its purpose is to guide strategic investments in the third city of Kenya, including an AFD’s 40 million Euro financing facility. This facility, the Kisumu Urban Project (KUP) is managed separately but in line with the ISUD-Plan Capital Invest-ment Strategy.

The purpose of the Integrated Strategic Urban Development Plan (ISUD-Plan) is to provide a framework for Kisumu’s growth and de-velopment and to endow those in charge with both the knowledge and the tools to address the challenges of urban growth and local development.

The ISUD-Plan is led by a holistic approach encompassing all key aspects of urban development taking into account : geography and the specificity of Kisumu’s unique location on the shore of Lake Vic-toria ; history and how the modern city was created as a trading post named Port Florence on a site which Luo name, Kisumo, means “a place to trade”, economy with a city primarily organized as a landing point for flying boats, terminus for the Uganda railway and freight and passenger port serving the whole Lake region. This influential city rapidly grew in size and population after independence in 1963 but its dynamism was severely affected by the collapse og the East Africa Community in 1977. The organisation was reviced at the turn of the 20th century and Kisumu has an important role to play as a

major urban centre at the heart of the region. The ISU-Plan aims at contributing to Kisumu’s revival.

The ISUD-Plan is built in three parts, first, it brings together the knowl-edge needed to take informed decisions with the findings of an urban inventory and analysis of the city dynamics exposed in part I of this document and compiled into a GIS-based urban database; second, it provides planning guidance with regard to land use, growth are-as, mobility, informal settlements and housing, commercial activities and, special planning areas ; third, it identifies needed investments, stemming on the one hand from the gaps identified through the in-ventory, from planning guidance of the plan on the other hand. These form the capital investment strategy.

Design of the ISUD-Plan presented in part II has been underpinned by a few planning principles based on good practice and under-standing of trends, pressures and the assets of Kisumu : growth con-trol through adequate land release, infill development and re-zoning; mobility through overhauling and extension of the transport grid; ad-equate and equitable repartition of services and amenities ; ade-quate housing supply; valorisation of key assets and potential, Lake Victoria and location in the sub-region, in view of promoting a city which is more inclusive, denser and conducive to business growth.


CONDITIONSANALYSIS

Sectoral surveys

Demography

Land uses

Transportation

Water sector

Power

Sanitation

Health

Education

Markets& trading

FRAMEWORKSANALYSIS

Institutionalframework

Legal &regulatory tramework

On-going andplanned projects

URBAN INVENTORY

CAPITALINVESTMENT STRATEGY

GIS-BASED CITY MODEL

URBAN DEVELOPMENTSTRATEGY

FINAL CAPITAL INVESTMENTSTRATEGY

KISUMU INTEGRATED STRATEGIC URBAN DEVELOPMENT PLAN

DEMOGRAPHIE LEGALFRAMEWORK

TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY

INFRASTRUCTURE & SERVICES

PUBLIC REALM

HOUSINGENVIRONMENT

HERITAGE

PARTICIPATION GOVERNANCE

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

INTEGRATEDPLANNING

INTEGRATED PLANNING APPROACH

Taking into consideration all influencing factors The planning and design process


HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

The ISUD-Plan has been prepared primarily for the use of the city planning authority. It is a holistic and practical document including essential baseline data; the Plan itself; a Capital Investment Strategy and; implementation recommendations. It is organized in three parts:

Part 1, Understanding Kisumu, the Urban Inventory shows the re-sults of the sectoral surveys carried out as part of the preparation of the plan. It is the knowledge tool for the use of Kisumu leaders. This part constitutes a hard copy version of the GIS-based city model. In addition it includes, for each sector, a sector map, a description, an analysis, recommendations, short term actions, and a capital invest-ment plan. The GIS-based city model can be updated as the plan is implemented or as other projects are delivered.

Part 2, Planning for Kisumu Future constitutes the ISUD-Plan. It is the reference planning document for the city. The Plan will inform and guide planning and investment initiatives by the Count and relevant line ministries. It supersedes previous planning documents.

Part 3, Implementing the ISUD-Plan, including : a Capital Investment Strategy (CIS), which lists short, medium and long term investments. Investments have been identified and select-ed based, on the one hand, on findings from the Urban Inventory and, on the second hand on requirements stemming from the Plan. The CIS will be used primarily as a guide for the AFD’s KUP. It is also intended to steer public investment planning by key players identified in the above diagram and

Implementation guidelines, which describes how to translate the Plan into reality so that change becomes visible on the ground. This part includes recommendations on which actions to embark upon first as well as a brief description of studies to be undertaken with regard to KUP-financed investments in view of the preparation of terms of refer-ence to commissioned them.


VISION FOR KISUMU

THE CITY ON THE LAKE

«A vibrant City,

on the shores of the largest fresh water lake in Africa, able to ac-commodate & control growth while supporting the development of a multipolar city through leveraging its economic assets in Indus-trial Processing, Knowledge Production, Ultra-Modern Transport System and Green Cultural Tourism.»

ISUD-PLAN VISIONINGWORKSHOP

22-23 November 2012

A vision consists into a holistic portrait of a desired city drawn with aspirations of the largest array of stakeholders. It is a projection in the future of what the city could become based on its present as-sets and potential as well as gaps and needs. From the Vision can stem emerging strategies for urban development. These strate-gies can partly be implemented through urban planning.

VISION FORMING PROCESS

1

PERCEPTIONAND

DIAGNOSTIC

2

ASPIRATIONS AND HOW TO GET THERE

3

FORMULATION OF THE VISION


Planning for Kisumu’s development must address a number of in-ter-related issues described at length in Understanding Kisumu and recalled here:

The city’s growth pattern has been mainly organic for the last 50 years with only a few new parts of it and a few buildings produced through planned development. This dynamic of growth has hardly been sup-ported by public investments neither kept in check through timely land release and appropriate zoning. Housing deficit has grown steadily and has been bridged mainly by way of spontaneous responses ei-ther through small scale community development by private develop-ers or, for the majority, through self-built substandard housing.

The enduring attractivity of Kisumu has not been on a par with liveli-hood and employment opportunities: major economic actors and ac-tivities have either disappeared or became dormant, such as trans-port and logistics with port and railway business at a standstill for two decades, industry with cotton mill and brewery now closed, sugar striving, rice and aquaculture on a slow take off and tourism hardly developed despite the region high potential.

As much as the city could not reinvent itself, it remained ensconced in a gridiron layout mostly intended at the time to serve port and railway activities and to render in space the social divide of the colonial or-ganization. In addition to a growing slum belt circling it almost entire-ly, Kisumu remained pushed away from the lake by the KRC holding despite the area not being in use anymore.

City and county are at a turning point today. Kisumu is manageable in size and in population; its environment is particularly conducive to growth in sectors with high job generation potential: tourism, transport and logistics and related services, agriculture and fishing and related activities, higher education. The ISUD-Plan is intended to help free Kisumu’s potential and to help its authorities and residents capitalize it. A successful outcome however will require a strong mobilization of all actors, public and private sector, civil society.

RATIONALE


RATIONALE


Kisumu is one of Kenya Vision 2030 flagship city; as such the city has been assigned a specific role within the country national develop-ment policy and will benefit from important public investments. Vision 2030 acknowledges the pivotal role the city could play in the planned overhauling of the larger region transport infrastructure – a role Kisu-mu had for more than half of the last century and which capital invest-ments in rail (Mombasa - Kisumu - Kampala railway), port (planned PPP for Kisumu port development and operation, redevelopment of lines to Jinja and Mwanza, new one to Kemondo Bay) and road (KT-TCA-NC) infrastructure as well as the ISUD-Plan should revitalize. The ISUD-Plan should help Kisumu’s development momentum through the provision of a renewed spatial organization improving living con-ditions for all and conducive to business.

In this view the Plan proposals, developed according to an integrated approach considering the variety of urban sectors and scales, intend to:

• Provide for a predicted population growth of around 300 000 people (45% increase) by 2030

• Guide urban growth so as to contain the urban footprint exten-sion, achieve an efficient density and an adequate repartition of services and amenities

• Reconnect the city and the lake to make Kisumu a true lake-side city

• Provide better mobility and accessibility to and within the city

• Re-integrate and restructure the slum belt

• Prevent sprawl and slum formation through adapted housing supply and zoning

• Provide land for undersupplied land uses, in adapted size and location

• Protect and valorize Kisumu’s natural environment

• Protect and valorize Kisumu’s heritage

• Improve public realm

DESIGN BRIEF


OUR CITY AND ITS REGION

Mwanza

SOUTH SUDAN ETHIOPIA

KENYA

SOMALIA

UGANDA

RWANDA

BURUNDI

TANZANIA

Kampala

Kigali

Eldoret

Nairobi

Mombasa

Lamu

Kisumu

Indian Ocean

Port Bell

Bukoba

Kemondo Bay

Jinja

Mwanza

Transport links (rail and waterways)

Pipeline project

Roads

Victoria lake

Kisumu Regional Transportation Context

0 50 100 200

Eldoret

Kisumu

Nairobi

Karungu

Masai Mara

Lake NakuruNational Park

Ruma Nat Park

Mt Kenya

5199

Kakamega forestreserve

SerengetiPort Boma


The ISUD-Plan calls upon a range of planning tools to contribute to Ki-sumu achieving its development objectives, as set by the city leaders through a number of consultations and a sustained dialogue with a variety of stakeholders. Each chapter in this part shows how they are applied and how, together, they form the Kisumu Integrated Strategic Urban Development Plan, the blueprint for Kisumu’s future.

Planning tools used for the ISUD-Plan include:

• Management of the natural environment in order to protect it, valorize it and protect people from natural hazards through zoning regulations

• Creation of 5 Special Planning Areas identified according to their high strategic value and for which specific planning guidelines will apply (Nyalenda and Manyatta A & B, KRC lake front holding, CBD, coastal area)

• Identification of 10 Densification Areas allowing infill develop-ment and retrofitting of under - used pieces of publicly owned land, a land use schedule is proposed for each of them

• Market strategy with refurbishment of selected markets, crea-tion of a wholesale market, creation of souks and of a network of kiosks, all intending to rekindle trade and better street and handicraft vendors conditions

• Provision of space for land uses currently under-supplied through zoning and planning guidance, especially economic activities and housing including affordable housing

• Provision of space within designated areas to accommodate predictable spatial needs based on demographic projection

• Creation of new sub centers destined to attract and anchor ur-ban extension. Sub centers are located where a high concen-tration of transit-linked activities is already emerging; a typical land use schedule is proposed for each of them

The implementation of the Plan is expected to provide a robust growth impetus as long as it is timely, coordinated between proposed initia-tives and with other major investments.

TOOLS


TWO SCENARIOS FOR KISUMU

The size of our city today

Land needeed in the future if we do nothing

Land needeed in the future with the Plan

The size of our city today

Scenario 1 : if we do nothing Scenario 2 : with the Plan


Kisumu today

Kisumu growing around the lake

Kisumu according to the Plan

LAND NEEDS


Here is where Kisumu will grow with new homes, schools, dispensaries, playgrounds, shops and roads.

Here, where the slope is dan-gerous, we will have only a few little houses, keep trees to hold the ground.

Here is where factories and workshops will be settled.

Here, where there is a lot of room, we will build new homes.

Here we will have a new commercial area

Here, more and new roads will be built, with potable water, public lighting, parks and also better homes.

Here, we will remember the history of our city by keeping older buildings.

Here we will have a new neighbourhood with shops, offices and flats

Here we will protect the coast for everyone to use it, for the health of the lake and for tourism.

Here we will have a family park along the river.

Here will be the new passenger and freight train station

Here, we take back the lakefront with a big park with cafés, restaurants, family promenade, boating and a whole new neighbourhood. We relo-cate the freight port.

Here we will protect the wetlands for future generations and for the lake health and for fish.

THE HAPA MAP

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