Department of City Planning

Department of City Planning
Simuwikitsi Asenanse Sahosame
Department overview
Formed	15 December 2023; 12 months ago
Dissolved	29 June 2024; 5 months ago
Superseding agency	Department of Infrastructure;
Jurisdiction	Chief's Council
Headquarters	Sahosam, Osolia
Director responsible	CalvinX;

The Department of City Planning was a department of the Osolian government which was responsible for approving new construction projects, especially in the city of Sahosam, and for planning and executing on government projects such as highways.

Responsibilities

The City Planning Department was responsible for various city and infrastructure projects across the Chiefdom of Osolia. One such project was the creation and upkeep of streets and roads as established in the Streets and Roads Act, which has made the biggest impact in today's Sahosam as the street layouts made by the Department are still virtually identical.

Towards the end of the Department of City Planning's existence, it became more involved in other kinds of infrastructure projects, such as a large-scale nether highway system devised by CalvinX, whose goal was to connect common areas such as Sahosam with farther-off lands such as some citizens' bases. Some citizens chose to build thousands of blocks away from the city center of Sahosam to give themselves more room, both physically and creatively, to design their dream bases. This effort continues today in the Department of Infrastructure.

History

The Department of City Planning was established on December 15, 2023. Speaker tz_scion was chosen to be the first Director of City Planning due to his extensive experience with this kind of position in Osolia's predecessor, the Republic of Melonia.

On June 16, 2024, during the June 2024 Osolian general election, Director Scion resigned from his position, citing that CalvinX was the City Planning candidate of both of Chief Webb's opponents, and that he had a lot of passion for the position that Scion no longer held. On the same day, Chief TriforceComet defeated incumbent Chief Michael Webb, and officially appointed CalvinX to the position. The Assembly unanimously voted to approve Calvin as the new Director of City Planning. The full results are listed below.

Measure 3 - Approve CalvinX as Director of City Planning
Choice	Votes	%
Yes	10	100.00
No	0	0.00
Abstain	0	0.00
Total	10	100.00

Registered voters/turnout	20	–
Source: Office of the Speaker of the Assembly

Abolition

On June 28, 2024, Speaker tz_scion wrote a formal proposal to the Osolian Assembly and Chief TriforceComet. His full proposal read as follows:

Calvin has been doing good work in the Department of City Planning when it comes to national infrastructure, but I feel like the actual city of Sahosam is being left behind a bit. I think there's a lot of missed potential that can be tapped into if it was given more attention.
Because of this, I want to propose that the Department of City Planning is changed to the Department of Infrastructure (More focused on national infrastructure and public farms), and a Governor of Sahosam is appointed. (The law regarding this is here: [1])
This will require two votes, one to confirm Calvin as Director of Infrastructure, and one to confirm [TriforceComet's] choice of Governor of Sahosam.

— tz_scion, June 29, 2024, 01:42 UTC

This was discussed for a short period of time with many having no objections to this proposal, and as such, Speaker tz_scion began a measure of the Assembly to carry forth the motion to rework the City Planning department into the Department of Infrastructure:

Measure V/Term 4 - Rename the Department of City Planning -> the Department of Infrastructure
Choice	Votes	%
Yes, perform the rename	10	100.00
No, keep the current name	0	0.00
Abstain	0	0.00
Total	10	100.00

Registered voters/turnout	20	–
Source: Office of the Speaker of the Assembly

This vote concluded on June 29, 2024, and the Department of City Planning was abolished upon the vote's passing. Legally, this measure abolished the Department of City Planning, created a Department of Infrastructure, and confirmed CalvinX as the first Director of Infrastructure, as explained by Scion before the vote, but the measure was written as is above for simplicity reasons.