Five new coastal cities in development; Tis in Chabahar set for investment: Deputy min
Iran is prioritizing the development of five new coastal cities – Tis, Central Makoran, Makoran, Khalij-e Fars and Kushk – as part of a strategic plan to create economic and sea-based urban settlements, the country's Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Shahram Maleki, said on Monday. Tis city in Chabahar Port in the southeast has entered its development phase and is prepared to attract developers and investors.
According to IRNA, Maleki detailed the government's macro approach to balanced territorial development, noting a special focus on planning new coastal and border cities in line with the country's updated spatial planning guidelines. He described the efforts as a strategic step toward achieving sustainable development, strengthening spatial convergence, and enhancing the resilience of new settlements.
"In the new approach, coastal and border cities have been defined as drivers of regional development, strengthening spatial security, economic prosperity, and increasing cross-border interactions, and their planning is carried out based on upstream spatial planning documents and environmental, social, and economic considerations," Maleki said.
"The plan for the spatial structure of new coastal settlements for the four southern provinces, with the aim of creating an integrated, balanced, and coordinated development pattern along the coastal strip, is being prepared and has now reached the final stages for approval after expert review and inter-sectoral coordination."
"In this plan, issues such as optimal population distribution, linking housing and activity, protecting natural resources and coasts, developing the sea-based economy, improving quality of life, and increasing resilience against natural hazards have been specially considered, and efforts have been made to shape new coastal cities as examples of smart and sustainable development," he added.
Maleki underlined that within the framework of developing new coastal settlements with an economic and sea-based approach, the new cities of Tis in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Central Makoran, Makoran, Khalij-e Fars and Kushk in Hormozgan Province are in the execution priority, and among these, the new city of Tis in Chabahar Port is ready to attract developers to serve as the country's first new coastal city hosting specialists and investors in the field of urban development.