At stake is the construction of an underground parking parkon the old land of the Popular Fair, which motivated the contestation of residents and opposition parties and the petition “Not to the slaughter of the Jacarandás of Av. October 5”, Created on March 21 – Tree Day, which today gathered more than 54,130 signatures.
The councilwoman of Urbanism said tonight that the Lisbon Chamber “You can’t incurite” The Property loyalty contract in the Entrecampos Project, in a session where more than four hundred participants contested the removal of Jacarandás.
“We are clarifying about the project, about the changes, the improvements that were made, we are explaining the before and after since this contract was signed, the contract in which the House cannot incur,” said Joana Almeida.
“We are not here discussing the future of the city, we are not here to discuss city vision, we will have debates in the context of the Lisbon 2040 strategy, we will have thematic debates related to environment, mobility, housing,” said Joana Almeida, in the face of alerting the state of abandonment and lack of maintenance of the city’s grove.
The councilwoman of Urbanism noted, therefore, that the session was aimed at “A technical clarification of a project that was approved in 2018”, com “A closed contract between the City Council and the Property loyalty.”
At the beginning of the session, Joana Almeida said that, in the “Pastry Passage” of the previous executive led by socialist Fernando Medina, he was warned of “a series of errors” that needed to be corrected, and that over three years they came to “a good result” that “will change that zone”, for over 20 years to abandon.
The municipal director of Urbanismo, Paulo Diogo, presented the process that began in 2018 with the approval of the Integrated Entrecampos operation, in an area of over 25 hectares (ha), which foresees 700 accessible housing fireworks and 285 Fireworks, in seven to 14 floors above ground, as well as service and commerce spaces, and a parking in three floors below ground.
The 428 -seat underground park foresees 363 public parking places to compensate 191 places to suppress the surface in part of Av. October 5, but by 2024 it was already approved in the executive chaired by Carlos Coinas (PSD) a second change to the subdivision, which impossible to keep all trees ”on Av. 05 October.
According to Paulo Diogo, the finding that Av. 05 October has “Less width” than provided for in the project, dictated the proposal of transplantation of part of the Jacarandás and “Replantation of new” of the same species.
According to the Lisbon Chamber, on the axis of Avenida 05 October there are 75 Jacarandás, of which 30 will be maintained, 20 will be transplanted (to which will join two Plátans) and the remaining 25 will be slaughtered. At the same time, 39 Jacarandás will be replanted, to 49 other trees.
The Municipal Director of the Environment, Catarina Freitas, stressed that the prosecutor will finance the “plantation of 200 new jacaranda” in the surroundings and other areas of the city, such as compensation measure.
Property Loyalty Representative Miguel Paiva Couceiro began the presentation of the project, but in the face of the defense of assistance, which led to a participant’s municipal police interpeairs, ended up postponing the intervention for the end of the session.
While the councilwoman responded to the first interventions of the 51 subscribers, Muda – a union movement in defense of the trees unfolded a widely read range where “Comply with Law 59/2021, the PDM and the municipal regulations”pointing “The irregularities” in the slaughter and withdrawal of the trees from Av. 5 de Outubro.
Several residents questioned how trees will be affected by the error of measuring a street, what is the need for another parking lot in the area instead of “Invest in public transport”, And if the access ramp has to be built in public space.
Other interventions have warned of the need for the groory to capture carbon in the fight against climate change, the planting of more species such as olive trees and almonds, the construction of peripheral determination parks, the impossibility of new trees to reach current size in the coming decades or examples of European cities that reduce private automobile access.
