Residents don't allow cutting down trees
For three days, residents of building #5a on Komitas Street (in front of Oriental Cuisine) are "resisting" a group of people who are trying to start construction in the area near the patio on behalf of the municipality.
The purpose is to move the substation located in the patio to another location and start construction of a multi-story building near the patio and the park. They haven't presented any documents or permission and are threatening to apply force against the residents, if they continue to impede demolition of the substation.
The residents have already organized a petition and sent letters to the RA Ministers of Nature Protection, Urbanization and Health, the Mayor of Yerevan, the RA Ombudsman and other bodies. The residents are determined, though the engineer that arrived on Monday had threatened to cut the heads of anyone who stood in their way.
It should be registered that there have not been any conclusions based on the wave of protests in different parts of Yerevan and the demolition of patios continues in the interest of private companies.
"If the authorities of Yerevan have given permission to build another multi-story building in another patio, the only thing left for residents to do is to stand up against the construction and use all legal and judicial means to defend their areas.
Let us mention that according to RA legislation, any construction projects in areas of civil activities must be discussed and agreed upon with the citizens living in those areas," as stated in the statement issued by the "We are the owners of this city" civil initiative.
The members of the initiative announces that they are with the residents of building #5a on Komitas Street and the nearby buildings and is ready to support them in their fight against the illegal actions.
