The Kyiv municipal administration intends to accelerate the creation of parks, squares, and lawns on the territory of Kyiv.

The press service of the Kyiv municipal administration announced this in a statement, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.

Kyivzelenbud, the municipal enterprise in charge of parks, is drafting a Kyiv municipal administration directive on creation of new parks and lawns in the city.

According to the draft directive, Kyivzelenbud is to improve at least 1 hectare of parks or lawns in each of the city’s 10 districts by 2008 and draft a plan for increasing the number of trees planted in subsequent years.

In particular, Kyivzelenbud intends to improve three squares with a total area of 16 hectares and 1,000 square meters of flowerbeds in Holosiivskyi district, 15 parks with a total area of 73.64 hectares and 4,000 square meters of flowerbeds in Darnytskyi district, 14 parks with a total area of 48.5 hectares and 1,900 square meters of flowerbeds in Obolonskyi district, six parks with a total area of 67.43 hectares and 500 square meters of flowerbeds in Desnianskyi district, and one park with an area of 2.9 hectares and 300 square meters of flowerbeds in Dniprovskyi district.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Kyivzelenbud has proposed that the Kyiv municipal council limit visits to fenced parks and squares.

According to information from the Kyiv municipal administration, there are 131 parks in Kyiv and 39 recreation zones are located on the territories of these parks.

Kyiv has three landscape parks, nine national parks, and 11 local parks.

The source: Ukrainian News Agency