Photo: PixabayIt is estimated that in the last year alone, one forest was cut down in Kragujevac due to new construction. From the first of September, investors in that city are obliged to plant trees for every built object - ten trees per 1,000 square meters. In addition to aesthetics, more greenery in the city, they also hope for better air quality, and the impact on the climate is not negligible either.
Wherever you find a suitable place, you build a building, and from the first of September you plant a tree. For the majority of investors from Kragujevac, profit comes first, so the tree rows gave way to concrete. They are rare, who also think of the common good.
"That decree or decision, as you say, is an extraordinary thing. And it should have been done earlier. I've stuck to it before, given that there were certain trees on the lots I built. And what we could preserve, we preserved regardless of the more difficult and complicated construction method," emphasizes Miroslav Brković, an investor from Kragujevac.
Just in the last year, around 1,400 construction permits were issued in Kragujevac, due to which, according to the authorities, one forest was cut down. Of the 200,000 hectares included in the spatial plan of the city, only 12 percent are green areas, writes rts.rs.
That is not enough, the citizens say, and they support the decision to increase that percentage.
That's why he cut the city. For every 1,000 newly built square meters, the investor will have to plant ten trees.
"In order to get all the permits, in order for the building to finally receive a use permit, it must come with the confirmation of our company "Šumadija", which planted not something small, but a serious seedling of six, seven, eight years, as long as there are already clear criteria for that," explains Nikola Dašić, the mayor of Kragujevac.
Kragujevac is the first city in Serbia, which, as part of the campaign "Restore the breath to nature, plant a tree", has banned construction without planting. The heart of Šumadija will strive in the future to live up to its name with green projects.
Source: rts.rs
