The plan to revive Tehran's gardens should be followed up in the council

The head of the construction committee of Tehran city council criticized the indecisiveness of the plan to restore the capital's gardens and the loss of the opportunity to restore more than one million square meters of gardens with the participation of the owners.

According to the report of Ambassador Arjan Hojatul Islam Seyyed Mohammad Aghamiri, in the 438th session of the Tehran Islamic Council, addressing the board of directors and the architecture and urban planning commission of the council, he stated: The draft of this plan was prepared in the late 1400s and after several stages of expertise and review, it is ready to be presented to the council, and despite the investigations carried out and the agreement of the municipality and the majority of the council members, the plan was never presented and approved in the council.

Referring to the capacity of this plan to revive Tehran's gardens, he added: During the investigations, we had more than a thousand garden files with an average area of at least a thousand square meters; That is, more than one million square meters of gardens, which could provide the grounds for reviving the properties of more than 60% of people's properties in the form of gardens by the regulation that was prepared based on it.

Aghamiri stated that many of these gardens were practically out of the cycle of maintenance and restoration due to the existing conditions and lack of building permits; He stated: In many cases, instead of having an incentive to preserve and water the trees, the owners faced a situation where they practically abandoned the maintenance of the gardens.

Meanwhile, with the approval of the proposed plan, we could witness the revival of hectares of gardens by the people themselves.

The head of the construction and infrastructure committee of the Islamic Council of Tehran emphasized the need for transparency in determining the tasks of the capital's gardens and noted: "Today, if we are concerned about the decline of Tehran's gardens, we must have a transparent mechanism so that the status of the gardens and the criteria for their recognition are clearly defined, and the owners also know what criteria they are facing."

In the end, criticizing the fact that this plan was not presented after four to five years of follow-up, he addressed the head of the council and the architecture and urban planning commission and said: This plan was approved by the municipality and most of the members of the council agreed with it, but unfortunately it never came to the floor of the council. My complaint with His Highness and the relevant commission is why, despite all these investigations and follow-ups, the opportunity to approve a plan that could help preserve and revive Tehran's gardens was not provided.