From Uche Nnorom, Makurdi
Benue State Urban Development Board General Manager, Town Planner Ternongo Mede has decried over the non review of the State’s master plan since its creation in 1976.
Towards this end, Mede intimated of plans to review the State development master plan to reflect the current realities.
He said when reviewed, the master plan will designate areas for every activity to ensure orderliness, easy access as well as enhance the beauty of the town.
“The master plan will show where the industrial areas are supposed to be, where the educational line should be, where the residential line are supposed to be and all those various uses must be linked up.
“You don’t just drop the industrial area close to the residential areas because you don’t want the waste from those industrial areas to get to the residential areas.
“So, we need to infuse the residential and educational areas in the same part.
*The residential areas are categorized into three, the low-density areas such as GRA, then the medium and high areas”.
He however, noted that developing a new master plan would require a lot of funds and might not be wholly feasible at the moment.
He also averred that a segmented approach would be adopted by taking the major towns in the state in the first instance.
