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URBAN DEVELOPMENT IS KILLING YEREVAN, SAYS ENVIRONMENTALIST
epress.am
02.21.2012
Urban development in the last 15 years has killed Yerevan -
particularly in historical, cultural, environmental and seismic
safety terms, environmentalist and Association for Sustainable Human
Development President Karine Danielyan told reporters in the Armenian
capital today.
"We already met with the fourth mayor and we didn't find any document
that determined that the 1971 city plan doesn't correspond to the
city's new realities.
"Let's close Getar River [which encircles downtown Yerevan and has
now been covered in parts] - line cafes and restaurants on top of it.
Tomorrow, climate change will come and thaw will begin; we'll see
how the pipes handle it. They forgot the flooding that happened in
Yerevan. Residents of the street on which the Kanaker power plant is
also located are in a struggle, that city hall allowed an establishment
to be 'planted' on green space. When residents protested, saying
that it's not enough that it's on green space, there are sewage and
drinking water pipes that go below, the municipality found a solution -
he will move them. Not the establishment, but the huge water pipes -
the case is being passed on from one court to another," she said,
summing up several issues in the capital.
She pointed out that in the name of public interest, residents were
evicted from the area in and around Northern Ave. and now there are
ads in different Arab countries promoting the country: "Dear people,
come, buy!"
"Preserving public interest are our green spaces," the environmentalist
said, adding that in recent years, Yerevan has lost at least half of
its green space.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
epress.am
02.21.2012
Urban development in the last 15 years has killed Yerevan -
particularly in historical, cultural, environmental and seismic
safety terms, environmentalist and Association for Sustainable Human
Development President Karine Danielyan told reporters in the Armenian
capital today.
"We already met with the fourth mayor and we didn't find any document
that determined that the 1971 city plan doesn't correspond to the
city's new realities.
"Let's close Getar River [which encircles downtown Yerevan and has
now been covered in parts] - line cafes and restaurants on top of it.
Tomorrow, climate change will come and thaw will begin; we'll see
how the pipes handle it. They forgot the flooding that happened in
Yerevan. Residents of the street on which the Kanaker power plant is
also located are in a struggle, that city hall allowed an establishment
to be 'planted' on green space. When residents protested, saying
that it's not enough that it's on green space, there are sewage and
drinking water pipes that go below, the municipality found a solution -
he will move them. Not the establishment, but the huge water pipes -
the case is being passed on from one court to another," she said,
summing up several issues in the capital.
She pointed out that in the name of public interest, residents were
evicted from the area in and around Northern Ave. and now there are
ads in different Arab countries promoting the country: "Dear people,
come, buy!"
"Preserving public interest are our green spaces," the environmentalist
said, adding that in recent years, Yerevan has lost at least half of
its green space.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress