Monday, March 4 2024 19:14

ArmInfo. The dismantling work planned for tomorrow on Lvovyan Street will not be carried out.  Vice-Mayor of Yerevan Armen Pambukchyan announced  on his Facebook page, referring to the results of a meeting with residents of this street, whose houses the city authorities intend to demolish. The territory on which the houses were built, according to the statement of the capital's mayor's office, is public property.

"The community's actions are not aimed at creating problems for city  residents, our task is to return public areas to Yerevan, increasing  the area of green areas," noted Pambukhchyan.  At the same time, he  said that discussions regarding further actions on this issue would  also take place in an expanded format.

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.  Today, another group of  citizens living on Lvovyan Street, whose houses are also planned to  be demolished, held a protest action near the Municipality.  The  latter demanded a meeting with the mayor to find a compromise  solution. Residents claimed that they had repeatedly applied to the  authorized bodies to privatize their houses, but for various reasons  they were refused. In particular, citizens were asked to wait until  the cartography work was carried out. It is noteworthy that despite  receiving a refusal, many of them nevertheless paid property taxes  and notifications of fines, summonses to the army, etc. are also sent  to these addresses. Over the decades, residents have landscaped these  areas, resolved the issue of utilities, and paid conscientiously for  electricity, gas and water.

The participants of the protest stated that they were ready to  legalize their houses and pay as much as they owe to the state, take  part in the city hall's greening initiatives, etc.