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ArmInfo
2010-09-29 20:12:00
ArmInfo. No sooner had Armenian ecologists expressed discontent about
the construction of a dolphinarium in Yerevan than the Municipality of
Yerevan started calming people down with their promises to "improve"
the territory.
According to an old tradition, the Municipality's press release focuses
on the desperate state of one more park in Yerevan, this time, the
Park after Komitas, where actually the dolphinarium will be built.
The Municipality enumerates all the shortcomings and then expresses
its desire to improve the green zone of the park by launching
new construction - a method, the residents of Yerevan are already
well-aware of. Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan says that a new
irrigation and illumination system, as well as roundabouts will be
installed in the park. Moreover, the parking area has already been
built, which is so characteristic of the Municipality that is very much
concerned with reduction of green zones. The residents of Yerevan are
sad. By their bitter experience they already know that with the word
"improvement" the Municipality of Yerevan conceals destruction of
green territories in favor of easy profits from cafes and restaurants.
One example is the Students Park, a green area turned by Beglaryan
into a concrete desert. Beglaryan's reason was allegedly to improve
the territory near the Viktor Hambartsumyan Monument. As a result,
the monument has found itself cramped between two ugly cafe-like
buildings with no single lawn left nearby.
The public protest has grown into a lawsuit but Beglaryan is not
afraid. Now that he has "cultivated" the Students Park he has rushed
to "improve" the Komitas Park. We already know what this improvement
will end in: cut trees and construction mud.
By the way, the dolphinarium is said to be the project of Ex Mayor
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan, which means that all attempts to defend
the green area are doomed to failure.
From: A. Papazian
ArmInfo
2010-09-29 20:12:00
ArmInfo. No sooner had Armenian ecologists expressed discontent about
the construction of a dolphinarium in Yerevan than the Municipality of
Yerevan started calming people down with their promises to "improve"
the territory.
According to an old tradition, the Municipality's press release focuses
on the desperate state of one more park in Yerevan, this time, the
Park after Komitas, where actually the dolphinarium will be built.
The Municipality enumerates all the shortcomings and then expresses
its desire to improve the green zone of the park by launching
new construction - a method, the residents of Yerevan are already
well-aware of. Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan says that a new
irrigation and illumination system, as well as roundabouts will be
installed in the park. Moreover, the parking area has already been
built, which is so characteristic of the Municipality that is very much
concerned with reduction of green zones. The residents of Yerevan are
sad. By their bitter experience they already know that with the word
"improvement" the Municipality of Yerevan conceals destruction of
green territories in favor of easy profits from cafes and restaurants.
One example is the Students Park, a green area turned by Beglaryan
into a concrete desert. Beglaryan's reason was allegedly to improve
the territory near the Viktor Hambartsumyan Monument. As a result,
the monument has found itself cramped between two ugly cafe-like
buildings with no single lawn left nearby.
The public protest has grown into a lawsuit but Beglaryan is not
afraid. Now that he has "cultivated" the Students Park he has rushed
to "improve" the Komitas Park. We already know what this improvement
will end in: cut trees and construction mud.
By the way, the dolphinarium is said to be the project of Ex Mayor
of Yerevan Yervand Zakharyan, which means that all attempts to defend
the green area are doomed to failure.
From: A. Papazian