A historical and cultural natural monument was mutilated by a bulldozer in Balaklava
In Balaklava, construction has resumed on the slope of Mount Asceti, which is part of a protected historical and cultural landscape.
Despite the bans and official visits to the site, construction of a retaining wall for future residential development has begun on the slope, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to the First Sevastopol TV channel, heavy construction equipment appeared on the slopes of the eastern part of Balaklava on July 13. After this, the inter-district environmental prosecutor, representatives of Sevprirodnadzor and Sevnasledie, the department of municipal services, went to the site.
Director of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of the Government of Sevastopol Maxim Zhukalov once again repeated that nothing can be built on Mount Asceti.
“Both sites fall into the regulatory zone at the landmark L-30, in which the construction of permanent buildings and structures is prohibited. And excavation work is allowed only within the framework of archaeological research and museumification of monuments, but on the basis of the relevant sections, which is clearly not the case in this particular case,” Zhukalov noted.
He said the same thing at public hearings on the land use and development project in Sevastopol. The owners of the plots insist on their right to use them for their own needs, since the slopes became protected after the transition of Crimea to the Russian Federation, and they acquired the land under the jurisdiction and legislation of Ukraine. Then the official suggested that the owners of more than 700 land plots obtain redemption at public expense in order to purchase plots in another location suitable for individual residential construction.
Since 2013, the slopes of Mount Asceti have been built with cottages. The houses have already come close to the route of the Great Sevastopol Trail. The plots here were already distributed under Ukrainian jurisdiction, and all efforts to give protected status to the landscapes, including scientists from INBYUM, did not bring results - the fences already go close to the path to the Silver and Golden beaches of Balaklava.
English version :: Read in English: A bulldozer destroyed a historical and cultural natural monument in Balaklava.