Green City as a Development Issue–Based on an Empirical Survey of Budaörs

Local regulations provide a number of opportunities for intervention to create an adaptable, resilient settlement. It is proposed to create a separate environmental (or more narrowly: climate protection) regulation, the elements of which could include a reduction in the business tax on companies that use renewable energy or build green roofs, while increasing the tax on companies that leave their car parks without trees planted and maintained in suitable conditions; the co-operation between the maintainer of green areas and the operators of public utilities should be extended and deepened, it should be regulated that not only the road operator but also the green area maintenance department should be notified in advance and at the same time when utilities perform maintenance or renovation on underground cables, or horticultural supervision in the event of such interventions. Green city regulation can be defining afforestation and greening requirements in traditionally built streets; setting strict replacement requirements for any felling and the procedure for financing actions formulated within the framework of other measures, the establishment of a climate protection fund. The present paper is an empirical study looking for the answer to how much the local population percieves the city as green and why.