YEREVAN MUNICIPALITY DOING PRECIOUS LITTLE TO HALT ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION
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13:19, October 26, 2012
Citing yesterday’s collapse of a building under construction in
Yerevan’s Ring Park as yet further proof of the municipality’s policy
of allowing urban development to run amuck in the Armenian capital,
destroying the architectural fabric of the city, a group of civic
groups have singled out past and current officials as directly
complicit in the process.
The groups state that former Yerevan mayors Yervand Zakharyan,
Gagik Beglaryan and Karen Karapetyan, along with current mayor Taron
Margaryan, have permitted such illegal construction and have little
understanding of what rational urban planning entails.
The civic groups point to yesterday’s collapse of an illegal building
as a prime example of such negligence and indifference.
The Yerevan Municipality’s Press Office has since stated that the
developers of the building in question had been fined 2 million AMD.
The fine was paid and construction continued.
The groups argue that the municipality appears more interested in
collecting fines than implementing practical steps to enforce the
laws on the books.
From: A. Papazian
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