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CONSTRUCTING CONTROVERSY: BUILDING CONTINUES AT DISPUTED SITE WHILE WAITING ON COURT RULING
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
http://www.armenianow.com/news/49753/yerevan_construction_housing_rights_komitas_street
NEWS | 04.11.13 | 15:22
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By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Despite an administrative court ban, the controversial construction
at 5 Komitas street resumed on Monday, with all its might and noise.
Head foreman Rafik Khachatryan told ArmeniaNow that the construction
has never stopped and that the company in charge has all the legal
grounds to carry it on.
Meanwhile, the administrative court of Yerevan has prohibited Liber
company to implement construction at the address of 5 Komitas street,
"until the legal act solving the issue comes into effect."
Since summer there have been repeated acts of protest by civil
activists and the residents against construction at this address.
Residents of the neighbor buildings claim that the block-of-flats would
compromise the seismic resistance of their buildings and will block
the light. A seven-storey building is planned to be erected there
(or even higher, as speculation goes), while the neighbor buildings
are four-storey ones. In August and September, there were several
incidents involving protestors and the police.
The residents who received the administrtaive court notices turned to
the police on Saturday demanding to make them stop the construction,
however the head foreman made reference to the provision of the law
by which the administrative court decision "is subject to immediate
implementation in accordance with the order provided for by the law
on Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts" and insisted that only
the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts (CESJA) has the
power of stopping the construction. Police officers accepted this
argumentation as grounded and left the site.
Khachatryan said today that nobody from CESJA visited the construction
site to demand to stop the construction. ArmeniaNow has not been
successful in obtaining any comment from the service.
The ruling of the administrative court is unprecedented for densely
populated Yerevan, where residents of several more buildings (in
Hrachya Kochar, Sayat-Nova and Amiryan streets) have now joined the
protest agaist those in charge of the construction, claiming that
it's being done with violations of seismic resistance norms and by
occupying their courtyard areas.
[ Part 2.2: "Attached Text" ]
http://www.armenianow.com/news/49753/yerevan_construction_housing_rights_komitas_street
NEWS | 04.11.13 | 15:22
Photolure
By SIRANUYSH GEVORGYAN
ArmeniaNow reporter
Despite an administrative court ban, the controversial construction
at 5 Komitas street resumed on Monday, with all its might and noise.
Head foreman Rafik Khachatryan told ArmeniaNow that the construction
has never stopped and that the company in charge has all the legal
grounds to carry it on.
Meanwhile, the administrative court of Yerevan has prohibited Liber
company to implement construction at the address of 5 Komitas street,
"until the legal act solving the issue comes into effect."
Since summer there have been repeated acts of protest by civil
activists and the residents against construction at this address.
Residents of the neighbor buildings claim that the block-of-flats would
compromise the seismic resistance of their buildings and will block
the light. A seven-storey building is planned to be erected there
(or even higher, as speculation goes), while the neighbor buildings
are four-storey ones. In August and September, there were several
incidents involving protestors and the police.
The residents who received the administrtaive court notices turned to
the police on Saturday demanding to make them stop the construction,
however the head foreman made reference to the provision of the law
by which the administrative court decision "is subject to immediate
implementation in accordance with the order provided for by the law
on Compulsory Enforcement of Judicial Acts" and insisted that only
the Compulsory Enforcement Service of Judicial Acts (CESJA) has the
power of stopping the construction. Police officers accepted this
argumentation as grounded and left the site.
Khachatryan said today that nobody from CESJA visited the construction
site to demand to stop the construction. ArmeniaNow has not been
successful in obtaining any comment from the service.
The ruling of the administrative court is unprecedented for densely
populated Yerevan, where residents of several more buildings (in
Hrachya Kochar, Sayat-Nova and Amiryan streets) have now joined the
protest agaist those in charge of the construction, claiming that
it's being done with violations of seismic resistance norms and by
occupying their courtyard areas.