DISMANTLE OF ILLEGAL CONSTRUCTION IMPLEMENTED IN SAYAT-NOVA STREET
Noyan Tapan
May 15 2006
YEREVAN, MAY 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Dismantle of a self-willed construction
built by a company between Sayat-Nova building No12 and Nalbandian
building 25-A in Yerevan started on May 12. After building a cafe in
the cellar of Sayat-Nova building No12, this company widened volumes
of the construction in the direct neighborhood of the 2 buildings,
ignoring the seismic norms. According to some information, in the
cellar ground of the above-mentioned building, two businessmen from
Iran invisaged to build a factory of plastic production.
According to Yerevan Mayor’s Advisor Hrachia Muradian, the Urban
Development and Land Control Department of the Yerevan Mayor’s
Office warned the company about stopping the construction and
implementing restoration works. The builder was already incured
to, first, 200 thousand drams (about 450 dollars) administrative
penalty formerly, and for the second time, to 400 thousand drams
administrative penalty. Employees of the Yerevan community head’s
office and corresponding services of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office were
also incured administrative penalty for not preventing the illegal
construction and delaying in the issue of its liquidation. According
to H.Muradian, the company having implemented the illegal construction
will have to pay from its own financial resources for works of the
dismantle implemented by the Mayor’s Office as well as for restoration
works implemented in parallel to the dismantle. About 60 self-willed
constructions have already been destroyed during the current year in
Yerevan, within the framework of the struggle against illegal building.