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The capital is effectively introducing a construction ban on the City Park. On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Assembly voted to modify the City Park Construction Regulations (VÉSZ). 18 voted in favor, 10 opposed the proposal and one abstained.
Photo: Zoltán Máthé / MTI
The new National Gallery, the Hungarian House of Innovation and the Budapest City Park Theater will be abolished, as well as the construction works of some independent commercial and catering facilities for additional service purposes. The goal is to create a complete green space on the site of the planned buildings, primarily with a public park function.
In the discussion prior to the adoption of the proposal, Zsolt Láng, leader of the Fidesz-KDNP faction, emphasized that the decision of the General Assembly was illegal, since it was contrary to the government decree on the subject, on which we wrote more detail here.
Gergely Karácsony put on the agenda the modification of the building regulations of the City Park and the prevention of the Liget project.
Zsolt Láng added that the government would like to discuss how the City Park can be exceptionally renovated at the European level. He remarked that they do not understand why the municipal administration is afraid of conciliation and why it wants to close the issue of colonization of the area for life.
Gergely Karácsony reacted to this: the city administration offered a generous commitment to the government by allowing the completion of the investments already started in the City Park. According to the mayor, they can no longer make various concessions, since their basic principle is that the Municipal Park cannot be built. He pointed out that according to the previously adopted capital strategy, all similar developments should be implemented in the oxidation zone, moreover, not in blocks, but created scattered throughout the city.
Csaba Horváth wants a referendum
The mayor of the MSZP in Zugló announced this Wednesday that he is ready to start a referendum in the capital if the government does not revoke its decision, which continues to see the City Park as a site and not as a green area. Csaba Horváth described as outrageous in the press conference held before the meeting of the General Assembly that the cabinet had taken a decision on the possibility of building the City Park a day before the deputies of Budapest had approved the new regulations construction for the area.
On Thursday, the mayor of Zugló, Csaba Horváth, had a conversation with László Baán, the ministerial commissioner responsible for the development of the Municipal Park.
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