The three-year process of drafting the Urban Development Plan of Ferizaj/Urosevac was formally concluded with the approval of the document by the Municipal Assembly in its session on January 29, 2009. Drafting of the plan was contracted out to a consulting company, “Intech”, which completed its work in 2008. Ferizaj/Urosevac is the 4th partner municipality of the Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme which has completed and approved its spatial plan. It will now initiate the implementation of the plan and develop capital projects based on the approved planning document.

Apart from purely technical work done by the consulting company, the drafting process involved public meetings, consultations and feedback on the quality of the draft versions of the plan from various groups of stakeholders such as the public sector, non-governmental organizations, business community, media and citizens at large.

A strong input to the Plan was given in a form of a vision statement developed by representatives of stakeholders during a visioning workshop in Ohrid, in 2007.  The workshop was organized by Municipal Spatial Planning Support Programme in cooperation with Friedrich Ebert Schtiftung Programme in Kosovo. This gave the opportunity to a representative of the consulting company to listen to the opinions of citizens and municipal officers. The results of the workshop were presented to the broader audience of citizens. The participatory character of visioning process was crowned by the submission of the Vision Statement to the Mayor of Ferizaj/Urosevac, in spring 2007, by members of the Informal Council of Civil Society, an advisory body set up for the purpose of mobilizing civil society to actively participate in the planning process.  

The decision of the Municipal Assembly of January 29, 2009 gives the city a document which should help guide its future development.