Residents of Balashikha have stopped the "improvement" of the Gorensky forest.
The Forestry Committee of the Moscow Region terminated the perpetual use agreement Gorensky forest with the Park Directorate BalashikhaThe municipality planned to improve 70 hectares of forest for 1,3 billion rubles, but residents opposed the project.
Gorensky Forest Improvement Project
A year ago, the Balashikha administration decided to build The forest has numerous recreational facilities—cafes, rubber playgrounds, stages, roads with streetlights, video cameras, etc.—under the "Creating a Modern, Comfortable Urban Environment" program. Officials justified their intention. "requests of residents"However, residents believed that the forest should remain a forest and entered into a fight with officials.
Residents wrote appeals to regulatory authorities and the media, asking their council members to join the fight. The authorities abandoned the project. The official explanation was that the funds were needed for other purposes.
"We have no money in the country, everyone is being laid off, salaries have been cut, utilities are insane, but they are allocating money from the budget for the destruction of forests," "This 'improvement', when they take parks and forest parks and pave them over, is simply horrifying," supported the Forest defenders are residents of the Moscow region.
Forest defenders plan to reclaim the site and seek punishment.
The defenders plan to return the forest area that was previously leased for storage to the forest reserve. They also hope achieve punishment guilty of destruction Kuchinsky forests - despite protests, they were nevertheless “improved”.
In recent years, government proposals for "improvement" have only caused alarm: under the guise of improving public spaces, officials are pushing dubious projects. For example, during the "improvement" of Ryazan's Central Park of Culture and Leisure, healthy trees were cut down in the oldest park. built running center. No one runs there, but it's completely cleared out. continues.
Photo: Save the Gorensky Forest group