Table of Contents CHAPTER I – DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................... 5 1.1. CONTEXT ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 1.2. CURRENT SITUATION ANALISYS .................................................................................................................... 7 1.2.1. General outline ........................................................................................................................................ 7 1.2.2. Demography ............................................................................................................................................ 9 1.2.3. Land and Housing .................................................................................................................................. 13 1.2.4. Infrastructure ......................................................................................................................................... 16 1.2.5. Public Services ........................................................................................................................................ 18 1.2.6. Economic development .......................................................................................................................... 23 1.2.7. Quality of environmental factors and pollution sources ........................................................................ 32 1.3. PEST ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................................ 34 CHAPTER II - DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ........................................................................................................ 39 2.1.1. Vision. Mission. Objectives ......................................................................................................................... 40 2.1.2. Sectoral policies and programmes ............................................................................................................. 42 2.1.3. Project portofolio ....................................................................................................................................... 52 2.1.4. Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism for the Implementation of the Development Strategy ............... 59 CHAPTER I CHAPTER I – Diagnostic Analysis 1.1. CONTEXT core priorities for the local authorities, to which a number of consideration can be added, that refer to Oradea Metropolitan Area was founded by the the viability of a major polycentric cross-border association of the Oradea municipality with the position. administrative territorial units surrounding it, namely The local developments strategy of Paleu is done within the local authorities of Biharia, Borş, Cetariu, Nojorid, Oşorhei, Paleu, Sînmartin, Sîntandrei. Therefore the 9 the project “Local development strategies in Oradea founding members, located on the western border of Metropolitan Area” implemented by the association co- Romania set, through the general’s assembly decision, financed by the European Social Fund through the on the 9th of May 2005 the first intercommunity Regional Operational Programme for Developing the development Association legally established, in a form Administration’s Capacity SMIS code 13072. The general of Metropolitan Area was set in Romania. objective of the project is to overall improve the capacity of the local administrations within Oradea On the 31st of July 2007, Girişu de Criş local authority Metropolitan Area. Throughout the implementation adhered to the association thus increasing the number process of the project the persuaded goal is to improve of members to 10 administrative units. Girișu de Criș the capacity of local authorities to formulate and local authority divided thus creating Toboliu local create public policies and to update their own local authority increasing by one the number of members of developments strategies. the association. The project budget is of 653.100 lei, with an As of the 2 of June 2010, Oradea Metropolitan Area implementing period of 18 months. The target group of (OMA) has a number of 12 members, the general the project is formed by the employees of each local assembly adopting unanimously the membership of Ineu administration forming the Oradea Metropolitan Area. giving it full rights amongst the other associates. The results of the project focus on (1) training a number of 40 public clerks from each member of OMA The common goal of the associates, according to the and (2) the creation of 11 updated local development constitutive documents, is to stimulate and support the strategies and one document that combines all of them growth and prosperity of the area, improvement in life (the strategy of the Oradea Metropolitan Area), standards amongst the inhabitants having as guide the creating and including a Good Governance Charta in goal to continually improve the overall quality of life. these strategic documents, translating them into The overall objective underlines the durable English and printing all the strategic documents. development of the metropolitan territory, envisioning The general objective of the durable development the creation of a common urban space of the 9 founding members, following all the necessary strategies is to improve life standards by exploiting the principles for insuring a coagulated territorial cohesion. existing resources and promoting the potential of the The set specific objectives are related to aligning subjected administrative territorial unit. In order to Oradea Metropolitan Area to the Euro-Atlantic reach this objective, a through and realistic analysis of economic and social standards, according to the the current situation must be made within the local national ones by the alignment of the metropolitan administrative territorial units, the Metropolitan Area as a whole, in correlation to the situations of the Bihor market climate to the international competition procedures, and last but not least to insure the socio- county and the North-West Developments Region, thus economic growth of the area. Amongst the main identifying the existing problems, measures needed to activity direction of the association, key elements such be adopted and outlining the strategic profile. as, promoting a coherent durable development strategy, promotion of public policies that support the continuous growth of added value, attracting, facilitating and supporting direct investments that have a major impact on the sustainability of the area, are 6 CHAPTER I – Diagnostic Analysis 1.2. CURRENT SITUATION ANALISYS West development Region. At the level of Oradea metropolitan Area the settlement has a rather central location. From an administrative point of view Paleu is 1.2.1. General outline neighbored to the north by Cetariu and Biharia, to the History. Paleu, alongside Toboliu, is one the most east by Ineu, to the south Oşorhei and to the south- recent developed local authorities in Oradea west Oradea. Metropolitan Area. Despite this its composing villages are: Uileacu de Munte, Săldăbagiu de Munte and Paleu. Administrative organization. Paleu consists of 3 All these have a rich history being mentioned in written villages: Paleu (seat of the local authority), Uileacu de documents. Munte şi Săldăbagiu de Munte. The 3 villages of Paleu are located on the 3 hills that surround Oradea. Village of Paleu – seat of the local authority is presented in the historical documents with the name of Hegyközpályi, which translated means The Paleu near Accessibility. Access to Paleu is made through county the mountains. Documents indicating the existence of road DJ 767 F. Săldăbagiu de Munte is reachable human settlements in this region present the hardships through the local road DC37. Paleu is located at about that the local population had to endure. From the first 9 km from the nearest railways(Oradea railway station) document dating from 1685 one can read that Paleu station and 16km to the Oradea International Airport. village was destroyed by fire, being repopulated 10 years later when King Leopold I propose to move some From Oradea there are several links with private people from neighboring villages to this area in transport companies (buses) to all three villages of the exchange for exemption of property taxes and Paleu. Departures from Oradea is done several times a mandatory work on the King’s lands for 3 years. day, either from the bus station Velenta or Great According to historical sources, the village was Square. surrounded by water, with only a dam serving the local 2 inhabitants as access point to the settlement. The main Surface. The total area of Paleu is 47,86 km . In occupation of people was brick making. relation to the area of Oradea Metropolitan Area, Paleu covers 6,4%. At the county level Paleu holds a share of Uileacu de Munte village was founded in 1210 when the 0,63% of the whole land mass. Bishop of Oradea brought colonists to lands devastated by Tatars and Turks. A long time area was called Landscape. Paleu is located in a hilly area, Uileacu de Paleu, only after 1792 receiving the name connecting the mountain areas in the eastern part of Uileacu de Munte. The reason for this change is that the county (Munţii Plopişului) and the western plain the town is surrounded by mountains (Hills of Plopiş region (Biharia Plain, Crişurilor Plain).