Cities

Today Academicians of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia Vladimir Barkhoudaryan, Gevorg Brutyan, Vilen Hakobyan and Adolf Mantashyan have joined the collective claim aimed at saving the Student Garden.

In the end, chief architect of Yerevan Samvel Danielyan met with two residents and said that construction will not continue until the issue is discussed with residents of nearby buildings. He promised the residents that all norms will be reconsidered and that there will be no construction for now.

In the recent years Yerevan witnessed such downpours in spring and autumn that cars are flooded and car jams emerge because of these flooded cars. People cannot pass the streets.

Under “Green Yerevan” program, this year the territory of green zones has increased. At the same time a 25-kilometer-long irrigation system is being built at cost of 400 million AMD.

Yerevan Municipality actions in regard with the civil works in the Student Park will be disputed in the Administrative Court of Armenia. “We Are This City’ Owners” Civic Initiative disseminated an announcement that particularly says the lawsuit is substantiated with facts of violating citizens’ right to living in healthy environment, right to rest, right to be aware of amendments in town-planning programs and project discussions, public participation in decision-making process.

The Hrazdan Gorge has experimentally been cleaned: garbage has been collected, dustbins - placed, maps about the Hrazdan Gorge –installed. The Ministry of Emergency States also supported the river cleaning, while transport was provided by the municipality and the youth acted as workers.

The municipality has disseminated a statement which says the permit to construct a block of flats at 5a Komitas Avenue was issued to “Liber” Company still in 2005. Constructing a block of flats in front of the building at 5a Komitas Avenue “is excluded.”

“We Are This City’s Owners” Initiative Group received an alarm signal from the residents at 5 Komitas. It’s the third day since residents have been opposing to a group of people who want to start civil works in the yard on behalf of Yerevan Municipality. The aim is to contract a block of flats in the territory of the inner garden.

The media already started publishing about the Minister of Emergency States of RA Armen Yeritsyan: he deals not only with personnel splitting, but also tree felling. For the purpose of uniting ministry departments, 50 trees were cut down in the central territory of Davtashen.

“We Are Our City’s Owners” activists say serious danger poses to the Ring Boulevard, particularly to the green belt near the monument to Mikayel Nalbandyan. The activists informed People’s Artist Sos Sargsyan about this incident and assured the territory is dried out intentionally in order to build something.

Grass is on fire in the square after Demirchyan located at the corner of Saryan Street and Mashtots Avenue. Ten days ago this territory was again on fire. Like it was in the past, Aysor informed the fire brigade about this case which arrived upon the scene.

Gagik Beglaryan’s administration proposed to change the status of 59,37 ha community land area in Ajapnyak Quarter (street after Tychina) to the status of land area for building houses. The Ministry of Nature Protection of RA officially rejected these land areas are not specially protected territories, but specially arranged green spaces.

The information about Nubarashen waste burial facility was removed from “Nature Protection” section of Yerevan Municipality site. Two subsections in this section are also removed – “Waste Management” and “Public Awareness, Environmental Upbringing and education and Access to Information”.

Architect Minasyan considered it inadmissible the civil works in Yerevan are conducted at the expense of eliminating urban green zones, which is particularly hazardous with our natural-climatic conditions.

Yerevan Municipality allocated 80 mln AMD to obtain machinery needed for landscape design. Earlier Yerevan had no such machinery.

400 million AMD will be allocated for renovation and construction of the irrigation system in Yerevan.

The environmental situation in the city causes Yerevan residents’ extreme anxiety and increasing discontent. The main reason for this is anti-environmental site development in the city. The Member of the Public Council and Chairman of “For Sustainable Human Development” Karine Danielyan submitted propositions to the Minor Council on behalf of the Subcommittee on Environmental Issues.

The Subcommittee on Environmental Issues of the Public Council put the matter to consider the environmental situation in Yerevan in connection with urban development at its next meeting. The Chairman of “For Human Sustainable Development” Association and Member of the Public Council Karine Danielyan informed EcoLur about this event.