Monday, March 4 2024 15:25

ArmInfo.In the morning, residents of Lvovyan Street gathered near the Yerevan Municipality because the houses where they lived for decades will be demolished by the decision of the city authorities in order to green the area.

Citizens came to the mayor's office with the only request - to talk  with the mayor of Yerevan Tigran Avinyan in order to understand in  which territory the demolition and landscaping work will be carried  out with the hope of a compromise solution.

In a conversation with journalists, citizens said that their houses  were built on the territory of a former gardening enterprise.

Naturally, there are no documents confirming ownership. But,  according to them, having repeatedly applied to the authorized bodies  over the years to privatize the houses that they built with their own  hands, they were refused. The latter were asked to wait while the  cartographic work was carried out. It is noteworthy that despite  receiving a refusal, many of them nevertheless paid property taxes;  they receive notifications about fines, summonses to the army, etc.  to these addresses. Over the decades, residents have landscaped these  areas, resolved the issue of utilities, and paid conscientiously for  electricity, gas and water.  "We have always been ready and are now  ready legalize our houses and pay as much as we owe to the state. If  there is a question of widening the road, we are ready to provide  this, if we are talking about landscaping, then we are ready to be  actively involved in this work," said one of the residents of Lvovyan  Street. Citizens are indignant and surprised by the fact that in the  same "disputed" area, which, according to the city authorities,  belongs to the Yerevan community, there are privatized apartment  buildings, and another high-rise is being built , while  however,  they are rejected for privatization." We are asking for a status  regarding both theirs and our one-story and two-story houses. Let's  come to a compromise," they noted.

During the protest, residents spoke with a member of the Council of  Elders from the Mother Armenia party Manuk Sukiasyan, director of the  " Greening and Environmental Protection " CNPO Armen Begoyan, head of  the information department of the Yerevan Municipality Taron  Gevorgyan, who, after listening to the citizens, only promised to  convey their request for desire meet Mayor Tigran Avinyan.  As a  result, the vice-mayor of Yerevan, Armen Pambukhchyan, agreed to  receive the participants of the action. The meeting takes place  without the participation of media representatives.  On February 29,  by decision of the mayor of Yerevan, work was carried out on Lvovyan  Street (administrative district of Nor-Nork) to demolish 8 illegal  buildings in which people had lived for 10 years or more.

Local residents noted that the decision of the capital's municipality  took them by surprise. Previously, they applied to the mayor's office  with applications for the privatization of houses, but there was no  response.  Citizens are confident that elite multi-storey buildings  will be built instead of their houses.  At the same time, the Yerevan  mayor's office issued a statement saying that the city authorities  will consider the issue of providing temporary housing to those  citizens whose houses are scheduled to be demolished by the decision  of the municipality.

"I think that it is not a secret for anyone that the city authorities  are pursuing a policy of returning the illegally taken communal areas  to the residents of Yerevan. In accordance with this, the mayor of  Yerevan decided to clear communal property from illegal buildings on  Lvov Street in the Nor-Nork administrative district.," noted  Vice-Mayor Armen Pambukhchyan.