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CITILEX PRIMUS DIA state: |
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City Purpose |
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Cities should always exist for the benefit of its citizens first. |
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The rights of citizenship and the ceremony of citizenship should always be prominent in the active life of a city and its citizens |
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The values and visions of a cities citizens should be utmost the basis of future development and existence of a city. |
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That all acts of planning and development of the city are judged according to their consistency with the rights of citizens and the values and visions of citizens of the city. |
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That a city has a clearly stated set of visions and values for the future in
5 years and in 10 years time and that these visions and values are
consistent to the rights of citizens according to the cities constitution. |
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City Function |
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That a city is only truly a functioning city when it can define its boundaries, has a constitution identifying the institution of citizenship and the election of democratically elected representatives and clearly states the rights of a citizen of the city. |
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That a city is only a city when it has a clear mandate via its constitution to:
• maintain its borders as a city;
• define the land usages and zoning of land defined within the city boundaries;
• Define the basic activities of commercial trade, markets, distribution and availability of commercial services;
• administer effectively the provision of essential city services including: power, water, gas, roads, utilities, emergency services, cables and sewerage, transport, garbage collection;
• have the capacity to raise revenue to pay for the cost of providing these services;
• administer the approval of building and building codes;
• plan the rezoning and restructure of certain regions of the city in line with the citizens vision;
• provide safety and protection to its citizens by means of personal protection of property, personal rights and values. |
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City Ordinances |
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That the elected officials of the city have as their charter of responsibilities the responsibility to ensure:
· all public buildings display prominently the rights of citizens of the city;
· all public officials are familiar and honor the rights of the citizens of the
city;
· all public institutions have as their charter the display of the rights of
citizens in official documents that directly relate to transactions that
could affect a citizens rights ( including leases, traffic etc);
· that the ceremony of citizenship shall be a formal ceremony celebrated
by all natural born in their eighteenth year and all naturalised citizens at
the appropriate date of granting;
· all public education bodies have as part of their education charter the
role to educate young citizens of their rights and they shall regularly
re-pledge their rights; |
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City Assets |
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That a prime responsibility of elected officials as stated in the cities
constitution is to define and protect the assets of its citizens, including:
· public space, including parks.
· public buildings and amenities
· public monuments
· public transport system
· other assets of the city
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City Officials |
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The cities elected officials should always have as a goal to develop rates
of public assets to private assets so that this ratio is never lost. |
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That as part of the constitution, the cities elected officials and public
officials are charged with focusing on the transport needs of its public
ahead of private means of transport. |
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