EcoLur
Is that really that way? Mayor Karen Karapetyan deceived a whole block at once. People living at 40 Pushkin, 42 Koghbatsi, 19, 23, and 25 Teryan, 37 Lalayants, 6 and 8 Northern Avenue who gathered for the protest demonstrations on 24 December assure this is what he did. We speak about the development of yard territory by “Local Developers” Company, which belongs to a well-known construction tycoon Samvel Mayrapetyan. “We had vineyards, trees and a playground. They have all cut down, broken apart and dug out a foundation pit,” say the residents. As a matter of fact, already now the residents have nowhere to walk and even to pass. The construction is carried out in a territory of more than 1500 square meters, but there is no expert assessment. The violation of the law is on the hand, but the inspection has gone missing.
“Mayor Karen Karapetyan, Taron Margaryan (Deputy Mayor) and Gagik Gajumyan (Head of “Center” Administrative Region)” visited this place. The Mayor was really outraged and promised to help,” said demonstration participant Vardan Geravetyan. But the promised hearings were not held. “At first we were told that Samvel Mayrapetyan was on holiday, then Gagik Gajumyan was on holiday, they calmed us down by saying the matter would be solved in our favour. Later Municipality told us that, under Chief Architect Narek Sargsyan, all the standards were followed. And if we have expert assessment data, we can submit them to Narek Sargsyan,” say residents. Reminder: the project should first have been submitted to expert assessment by “Local Developers” Company, i.e. Samvel Mayrapetyan and not to Narek Sargsyan, but Nature Protection Ministry.
By the way, during the protest demonstration workers said, they had got in touch with their administration and everything is OK. The administration didn’t appear at the demonstration, neither did Municipality nor State Environmental Inspection representatives.
September 26, 2011 at 01:10