Municipality: dismantling of the houses on Lvovyan Street to be  suspended

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.