The prosecutor's office returned the status of urban forests of 1.2 hectares in Novosibirsk

The prosecutor’s office managed to achieve the inclusion of a territory in 1.2 hectares in Novosibirsk in city forests. Previously, it was attributed to the zone of warehouse objects and could be built up.

In 2019, the prosecutor of the city of Novosibirsk, in 2019, appealed to the Soviet District Court with a lawsuit to recognize illegal inaction of the city hall to disobedient a territory with an area of ​​more than 1.2 hectares in the materials of the forestry work.

According to the regional prosecutor's office, this territory in the Soviet district of Novosibirsk did not have the status of urban forests. However, it meets the signs of the forest and the concept of it as an ecological system and natural resource: “Woody plantations located on the territory are performed by environment-forming, protective, sanitary-hygienic, health and other useful functions inherent in forests. In accordance with the previously existing (until 2010) project of the parking lot, this territory was part of the city forests. ”

Despite the presence of forest, according to the documents of urban planning zoning, the territory is assigned to the zone of communal and warehouse facilities. With this “zoning”, the construction of capital construction facilities that do not meet the principles of forest legislation are allowed.

Earlier, the Soviet District Court agreed with the conclusions of the prosecutor, in 2020 the regional court left the decision without changes.