Athens Mayor urges suspension of building height increase in Athens

[InTime News]

Athens Mayor Haris Doukas has issued an unfastened missive to Minister of Environment and Energy Theodore Skylakakis, urging the suspension of a ministerial determination “envisaging the implementation of accrued gathering heights.” 

Doukas, successful his letter, poses 2 captious questions: “Can Athens endure much cement, taller buildings, and accrued gathering ratios? What is the societal request that the metropolis is called upon to fulfill with much cement, taller buildings, and accrued gathering ratios?” He emphasizes, “With cognition and sincere interest for the aboriginal of our city, the answers to the supra questions are clear. Athens cannot. Unchecked operation without a thorough survey of the city’s capableness is simply a information awesome for the urgent rationalization of municipality readying and onshore use.”

The missive states that the ministerial determination “has placed the municipality successful an administrative impasse.” 

Doukas calls upon the ministry to see its historical responsibility, emphasizing, “I telephone connected the Ministry of Environment & Energy to guarantee that the certification of gathering presumption of class 3 is not valid earlier the support of construction, starring to uncontrolled construction.