The project's main component is the creation of a central boulevard and square, lined with parks and shops, to give this sprawling agglomeration the physical center it now lacks. The project, for the first time, also creates a zoning plan which designates which areas can be built-up and which areas must remain green. Prague's City Hall has sent back the proposal for modification six times and has yet to give it final approval. Jizni Mesto's mayor has appealed to the Czech Ministry of Local Development to stop the project. But the fact is that councilors at Prague City Hall are elected from political party lists, which means there is no requirement that all city districts be proportionally represented on the central council.
Some districts have no representatives at all.
Lack of cooperation from central authorities is one reason why Jizni Mesto's plans remain mere pieces of paper. Another, even more important one is the issue of land restitution. After the fall of Communism at the end of 1989, Czech authorities, like many of their counterparts in Central and Eastern Europe, began to give back confiscated land and buildings to their former owners or heirs, in a process called restitution. Many of the strips of farmland on which Jizni Mesto's high-rise apartments blocks now stand, were also restituted. Other claims to land in the area will be tied up in the courts for years to come.