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investnow2013:
THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO SOME AWKA STREETS

investnow2013:
THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO SOME AWKA STREETS

Xander85:


They should try and get landlords to repaint their houses too.

horsepower101:


There should be a state law for routine building maintenance with penalties and fines.

Mandatory repainting of houses every 12 to 15 years.

Changing of rusted roof.

Mandatory building of side walks and closing of gutter by landlords or land owners.

investnow2013:
Urban Renewal of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs – A View through a Different Spectrum

To view the desired transformation of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs is to shun cynicisms. This is a journey into vision. In this journey, you must first free your mind and the rest will follow.

Awka is a University City. And as such the economy of the city is closely related with the university activity and highly supported by the entire university structure, which includes university hospital and clinics, printing houses, libraries, business incubators, student lodges, students' unions, student societies, and academic festivities. Thus, the history of Awka, since the inception of Anambra State in 1991, is often intertwined with that of UNIZIK.

In the particular case of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and Environs, whilst the seat of the university activities is at the UNIZIK Perm Site, the studentification of the UNIZIK Temp Site area is still prevalent. For this reason, the area must wear a certain je ne sais quoi – unique and befitting of a University City neighborhood.

It is no wonder, in a bid to decongest the streets of urban cities of Anambra State (starting with Onitsha) and to ensure clean & heathy Anambra State, the Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency Chief (Dr.) Willie M. Obiano, ordered the ongoing “Operation No Street Trading in Anambra State.” That operation recently hit the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs, with a view to renew the neighborhood that has otherwise degenerated.

Urban decay and degeneration, following rapid urbanization, is a very serious contemporary environmental challenge in most Nigerian urban cities such as the Awka Capital Territory. Urban renewal action is a task that must be pursued and accomplished to bring our sub-standard urban cities environments to the standard reflective of our time – the 21st century, and in tandem with those of other comparable nations. Integrated efforts from international, national and local fronts as well as the private sector, different professionals in the built-environment, among others are required to realize sustainable urban renewal in our cities. The renewed or regenerated UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and environs would not only ensure harmonious, attractive and aesthetically pleasant environment but also enhanced socio-economic development, safe, secure, healthy and quality urban life for both the present and future generations.

Imagine the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and Environs in a new light, I dare you.

Arc. Michael M. Okonkwo
Honorable Commissioner for Environment
Anambra State

Xander85:


They should try and get landlords to repaint their houses too.

mktinsight:


Your math is wack. 4 events a month is 48 events a year. That's almost 50 events that you used as your baseline. I doubt that Uyo or Lagos Stadium hosts that many events.

Then a typical football game viewer spends 20 times less than.a conference attendant. Meaning that a 1,000 person event at Eko Convention Center reaps exactly the same revenue as 30,000 people watching football at Uyo Stadium. Meanwhile the stadium costs 10-20 times that of the Convention Center.

investnow2013:
Urban Renewal of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs – A View through a Different Spectrum

To view the desired transformation of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs is to shun cynicisms. This is a journey into vision. In this journey, you must first free your mind and the rest will follow.

Awka is a University City. And as such the economy of the city is closely related with the university activity and highly supported by the entire university structure, which includes university hospital and clinics, printing houses, libraries, business incubators, student lodges, students' unions, student societies, and academic festivities. Thus, the history of Awka, since the inception of Anambra State in 1991, is often intertwined with that of UNIZIK.

In the particular case of the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and Environs, whilst the seat of the university activities is at the UNIZIK Perm Site, the studentification of the UNIZIK Temp Site area is still prevalent. For this reason, the area must wear a certain je ne sais quoi – unique and befitting of a University City neighborhood.

It is no wonder, in a bid to decongest the streets of urban cities of Anambra State (starting with Onitsha) and to ensure clean & heathy Anambra State, the Governor of Anambra State, His Excellency Chief (Dr.) Willie M. Obiano, ordered the ongoing “Operation No Street Trading in Anambra State.” That operation recently hit the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction Awka and Environs, with a view to renew the neighborhood that has otherwise degenerated.

Urban decay and degeneration, following rapid urbanization, is a very serious contemporary environmental challenge in most Nigerian urban cities such as the Awka Capital Territory. Urban renewal action is a task that must be pursued and accomplished to bring our sub-standard urban cities environments to the standard reflective of our time – the 21st century, and in tandem with those of other comparable nations. Integrated efforts from international, national and local fronts as well as the private sector, different professionals in the built-environment, among others are required to realize sustainable urban renewal in our cities. The renewed or regenerated UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and environs would not only ensure harmonious, attractive and aesthetically pleasant environment but also enhanced socio-economic development, safe, secure, healthy and quality urban life for both the present and future generations.

Imagine the UNIZIK Temp Site Junction and Environs in a new light, I dare you.

Arc. Michael M. Okonkwo
Honorable Commissioner for Environment
Anambra State

mktinsight:


Not only houses but shops also. Go to key commercial streets and look at some of the so called shopping plazas. Unkempt, filthy, totally lacking conveniences. Many of those buildings at Iweka Rd, Zik Ave, New Market Rd should be shut down to force the owners to upgrade them. A shopping plaza with more than 5 shops at a minimum must have plumbing and functioning toilets, waste bins, cleaners, checked yearly for electrical and fire safety, have its exterior painted. This is supposed to be in the building code.

Landlords should not be collecting millions for slums they call shops. If the govt enforced this and gave landlords a grace period to upgrade you would transform commercial streets.

That is in addition to recovering public spaces. For example the law says a building should be two meters from the edge of the road. That space is meant for utilities like water pipes, electric poles, pavements. If governments enforced this there shouldn't be a building within 7 feet of the side of the road.

Xander85:


They should try and get landlords to repaint their houses too.

horsepower101:


There should be a state law for routine building maintenance with penalties and fines.

Mandatory repainting of houses every 12 to 15 years.

Changing of rusted roof.

Mandatory building of side walks and closing of gutter by landlords or land owners.

mktinsight:



That traffic that you see pent up at the Unizik junction with the expressway is a bottleneck of people moving between Okpuno via Obi Okoli and Awkas Arthur Eze Rd and vice versa due to poor transport and poor connecting infrastructure. Obi and his stingy thinking is why ANSG built a foot bridge instead of a flyover at that junction. That foot bridge is not only poorly located and constructed but forces masses of keke and okada to sit at each junction to ferry people to and fro. Then to add to the chaos all sorts of buses have established parks at the junction including govt owned TRACAS. Illegal traders love lots of traffic and Unizik Junction is their dream come true.

The solution to Unizik Junction is not just tree planting but road infrastructure, law enforcement and fencing.

1) The open spaces and all bus parks at each junction must be fenced off from the road just like Fashola did at Anthony junction in Lagos and Ambode did with Berger.

2) Ban Okada entirely on Obi Okoli and Arthur Eze (indeed the entire town) and force keke and buses to park in fenced off road spaces.

3) The govt needs to be serious about getting rid of street traders. The barrow hawkers that have colonized many streets of Anambra cities cannot do so in Enugu, Lagos, Ebonyi because those governments do not allow it. But Anambra OCHA brigade, police take bribes and look the other way to show the depth of corruption in ANSG.

4) The govt needs to build a bridge at Regina Caeli/Old Inec Rd to create a permanent high capacity route for all traffic between Okpuno and Awka.

5) The govt needs to construct a one way service lane between Regina Caeli junction and Kwata junction on the southern side of the expressway so vehicles can shuttle westwards easilt without having to go all the way to Arroma to turn.

6) The govt needs to immediately downsize Eke Awka which accounts for a lot of crosstown traffic by converting the older buildings at its edges and middle back to parking and wall the market completely around with entry and exit gate's.

7) The govt should establish a new market at Ifite closer to the university community to take pressure of demand off Eke Awka.

REGENMASTER:

Absolutely Correct. There are many absentee landlords who only care to wait for rent payment alerts and never care to see the slum state of their properties. Government can repaint them as a matter of public interest and recover the money forcefully. Government should also have a common SHOP FRONT POLICY as done in the UK. In this case, there should be minimum standard of front of shop aesthetic or beauty. Government can assist and recover the money gradually. This will attract shoppers. Every town must have a regenerated shopping town centre.

AuntLaVIV:
Private school investor at Awka.

Dremca:
Wow, what's the name of this school. This is a world class structure. #Akuluouno

AuntLaVIV:


Adorable British School, Awka

AuntLaVIV:


Adorable British School, Awka

mktinsight:



That traffic that you see pent up at the Unizik junction with the expressway is a bottleneck of people moving between Okpuno via Obi Okoli and Awkas Arthur Eze Rd and vice versa due to poor transport and poor connecting infrastructure. Obi and his stingy thinking is why ANSG built a foot bridge instead of a flyover at that junction. That foot bridge is not only poorly located and constructed but forces masses of keke and okada to sit at each junction to ferry people to and fro. Then to add to the chaos all sorts of buses have established parks at the junction including govt owned TRACAS. Illegal traders love lots of traffic and Unizik Junction is their dream come true.

The solution to Unizik Junction is not just tree planting but road infrastructure, law enforcement and fencing.

1) The open spaces and all bus parks at each junction must be fenced off from the road just like Fashola did at Anthony junction in Lagos and Ambode did with Berger.

2) Ban Okada entirely on Obi Okoli and Arthur Eze (indeed the entire town) and force keke and buses to park in fenced off road spaces.

3) The govt needs to be serious about getting rid of street traders. The barrow hawkers that have colonized many streets of Anambra cities cannot do so in Enugu, Lagos, Ebonyi because those governments do not allow it. But Anambra OCHA brigade, police take bribes and look the other way to show the depth of corruption in ANSG.

4) The govt needs to build a bridge at Regina Caeli/Old Inec Rd to create a permanent high capacity route for all traffic between Okpuno and Awka.

5) The govt needs to construct a one way service lane between Regina Caeli junction and Kwata junction on the southern side of the expressway so vehicles can shuttle westwards easilt without having to go all the way to Arroma to turn.

6) The govt needs to immediately downsize Eke Awka which accounts for a lot of crosstown traffic by converting the older buildings at its edges and middle back to parking and wall the market completely around with entry and exit gate's.

7) The govt should establish a new market at Ifite closer to the university community to take pressure of demand off Eke Awka.

AuntLaVIV:
Private school investor at Awka.

Obi1kenobi:


Amaeze.

lillan042:
am from ibenabor thou

Obi1kenobi:


Prof. P. N Okeke's village. He attended a few of our Oraukwu Undergraduate Association meetings in UNN. It's like it's mostly your area NEPA used to remember during Christmas while mine (Amaeze) suffered. We were sharing a transformer with neighbouring village Nkwelle, and we always had issues. Hated traveling to villa as a kid because we never had power except when we put the generators in the night.