15 November 2013, 03:20
Sochi: Gorky Street residents rally to protest against high-rise building
A gathering of residents of Gorky Street in Sochi has demanded to cancel the erection of a 14-storey office building in a site closely adjacent to their homes. They decided to ask the prosecutor's office to intervene and address the situation, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.
The rally took place on November 14. "The reason to hold it was in the attempt to build up another high-rise in the main street of the city," Nina Alexeeva, an organizer of the rally, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
"The last drop was this fence and a banner announcing a sale by the bank of a land plot at No. 28 Gorky Street. The bank told us that the plot of 0.08 hectares will be used for erecting a commercial office building with the permission of the city Mayoralty. We treat it as lawlessness. The central Gorky Street, where all the governmental buildings are located, namely: the Mayoralty, the court and the police, is literally cordoned off by skyscrapers, to which there is no entrance or even pass," said Galina Sipatova, a resident of No. 30 "a" in Gorky Street.
In her opinion, such a city-planning policy is fraught with problems in case of emergencies, while such dense build-up makes the urban environment unfit for normal life.
Author: Svetlana Kravchenko Source: CK correspondent
