With the road map drawn by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality to make the city resistant to disasters after the October 30 earthquake, significant progress was made in one year. İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, who said that they have implemented the most comprehensive earthquake research and risk reduction projects in Turkey. Tunç Soyer“We will continue to do whatever we can to make everyone feel safe in İzmir,” he said.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality continues to lead the way to create a resilient city by realizing the most comprehensive earthquake research and risk reduction projects in Turkey. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor, who said that they took important steps in a year after the 30 October Izmir earthquake. Tunç Soyer“After the earthquake, we realized once again that our top priority is to make İzmir a resilient city. First of all, people of Izmir need to feel safe in the city they live in and in the buildings they live in. For this, we have implemented Turkey's most comprehensive earthquake research and risk reduction projects. While we were making an inventory of the existing building stock in the city with the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Civil Engineers, we also took action for seismicity research and soil behavior model with the contribution of 10 universities under the coordination of METU. This work, which is the first in Turkey and very few examples in the world, will be completed within 30 months. In addition, we announced that we would give a precedent increase for all buildings that received a moderate or severe damage report after the October 30 earthquake. BayraklıThe precedent increase of 20 percent on parcel basis and 30 percent on island basis in Istanbul was accepted by the majority of votes in the Metropolitan Municipality Council. We will also present our proposal in the first assembly in order to spread this throughout Izmir. We will continue to do whatever we can to make everyone feel safe in İzmir.”
200 million lira resource
The Metropolitan Municipality, which established the Department of Earthquake Risk Management and Urban Improvement before the 30 October Izmir earthquake, held the "İzmir Earthquake" with the participation of academics from various universities, representatives of stakeholder institutions and organizations in disaster management, district municipalities, professional chambers and non-governmental organizations, just 10 days after the earthquake. “Common Mind Meeting” was organized. The Metropolitan Municipality, which constitutes the Disaster Science Board, which includes scientists who are experts in earthquake and disaster in Turkey, allocated 200 million lira from its budget for earthquake studies.
Beside the earthquake victims
The Metropolitan Municipality, which determined the roadmap to make İzmir a resilient city, also started a comprehensive study to heal the wounds of the earthquake. Bringing together earthquake survivors and those who want to support them in order to solve the housing problem, the Metropolitan Municipality signed the "One Rent One Home" campaign. In this context, the promised rental support amounted to 42 million 649 thousand liras. Apart from the One Rent One Home campaign, only 5 million 216 thousand 35 liras of rental support was provided to 126 thousand 900 earthquake victims from the metropolitan budget.
Solved the housing problem
The Metropolitan Municipality also provided the earthquake victims with free accommodation for one year in the residences in Uzundere. 5 rooms of a 380-star hotel building were opened to earthquake victims. People and institutions that want to support earthquake victims were brought together through the People's Grocery. In this way, donations of 19 million TL were provided in different items such as white goods, furniture, small household appliances, food, clothing, shelter and stationery. The household goods of a thousand households were completed. The Metropolitan Municipality, which established stations at 17 different points during the earthquake, distributed food to 171 people.
Building identification system is being installed
On March 4, 2021, the Metropolitan Municipality decided to take an inventory of the existing building stock in the city and signed a protocol with the Izmir Branch of the Chamber of Civil Engineers (IMO). Most affected by the earthquake Bayraklı Within the scope of the work started in the district of Istanbul, the field and archive work related to 33 thousand 100 houses was completed. Archival and project data were analyzed with the street scan made in the field, integrated with the concrete strength data obtained from Schmidt hammer and core results, and analyzed with scientific methods, taking into account the year of construction. Building inventory studies and building identity document system Konak, Karşıyaka and Bornova districts, followed by the whole of İzmir. The Metropolitan Municipality aims to take an inventory of 869 thousand 217 buildings throughout the city in the long term.
Move to facilitate transformation for licensed structures
The Metropolitan Municipality has also taken an important step to facilitate the transformation for licensed buildings. The regulation, which facilitates the transformation of buildings that were found to be severely or moderately damaged after the October 30 earthquake and buildings that were licensed after 1998 or that were deemed risky by the law numbered 6306, was passed unanimously by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Council on March 1, 2021. The regulation, which prevents citizens whose houses were damaged in the earthquake from losing their rights in the new houses they will build, also concerns structures that are likely to be damaged in the event of a similar disaster.
Precedent good news for the whole city
If on October 12, 2021 BayraklıThe decision to increase the precedent, which the earthquake victims, whose houses were destroyed in , have been waiting for a year, was decided at the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Council. BayraklıA precedent increase of 20 percent on parcel basis and 30 percent on island basis in Istanbul was accepted by a majority of votes. Metropolitan Mayor Tunç Soyeralso gave the good news that it will present the proposal to give a precedent increase on a parcel basis to all buildings that were severely or moderately damaged in the earthquake throughout the city in the first parliament.
Loan for moderately damaged structures
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality also reached an agreement by negotiating with the World Bank to use an Emergency Improvement Loan (ERL) of 340 million dollars, which includes the conversion of buildings that were determined as moderately damaged in the earthquake. The loan can be used by the Presidency Strategy and Budget Department after it is included in the country investment program. Thus, owners of moderately damaged buildings will have the opportunity to use long-term, low-interest loans under the guarantor of the municipality to renovate their buildings.
Faults are being investigated
In August 2021, a protocol was signed with İzmir Institute of Technology, METU and Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University for Turkey's most comprehensive earthquake research project. With the seismicity survey, which will examine the fault lines on the sea and on the land, which have the risk of affecting the city. BayraklıStudies have been initiated to model the soil structure and soil behavior characteristics of an area of approximately 11 thousand hectares within the borders of Bornova and Konak districts. With these studies, the tsunami and seismic movements of the city will be evaluated, the active faults will be determined, and the last time they were active will be measured. Faults on the area determined within a radius of 100 kilometers in İzmir will be mapped.
Urban transformation accelerated
The Metropolitan Municipality also accelerated the urban transformation projects in Uzundere, Gaziemir, Örnekköy, Ege Mahallesi, Ballıkuyu and Çiğli Güzeltepe, where there are slums and unlicensed illegal structures, which are in the class of dangerous housing areas in İzmir. Minister Tunç SoyerWith the inclusion of the Metropolitan company İZBETON in the tender process, the process that had been slowing down since 2016 gained momentum again. Thus, in just two years, an urban transformation construction work with a tender value of more than 500 billion TL, approximately 550 million TL in Ege Mahallesi and approximately 1 million TL in Örnekköy, was started. A protocol was signed for the construction work with a tender value of 150 million liras in Gaziemir Aktepe and Emrez.
Working with the principles of one hundred percent consensus, on-site transformation, and "Metropolitan assurance and guarantee", the Metropolitan also makes all infrastructure investments in urban transformation areas, from the cultural center to the sports fields, from the market place to the green area. Between 2016-2020, the Metropolitan has delivered the turnkey of 1 independent units in Uzundere 2st Stage and 1nd Stage, and Örnekköy 960st Stage. A contract was signed with the contractor for the 2nd Stage of Örnekköy in 2020; In this context, 190 independent units will be built and the project will be completed in 2023. Signing a protocol with İZBETON for the construction of a total of 3 independent units in Örnekköy 4rd and 1th Stage, Gaziemir Aktepe and Emrez's 1300st Stage, the Metropolitan will also finish its work in this area in 2024. A contract was signed with the contractor in 2020 for the first stage in Ege Mahallesi. Within the scope of the first phase, 1028 independent units will be completed by 2025.
A total of 3 independent sections, 1422 in Uzundere 2900rd Stage and 4322 in other areas, were made ready for the turnkey construction tender for flat. All preparations for urban transformation in Çiğli Güzeltepe have been completed and the reconciliation phase has been reached. Reconciliation talks continue in Ballıkuyu.
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