Minsk City Executive Committee overrules decision to resettle people from Karl Marx Street

The Minsk City Executive Committee has taken a decision not to rehouse people living in Karl Marx Street, and to preserve the functional purpose of these houses, told the chairman of the Committee of Architecture and urban development of Minsk City Executive Committee Viktar Nikitsin.

“We have adopted a resolution not to resettle people and to change the approach to area development in Marx Street. The design and estimate documentation on creation a pedestrian zone from this street would be done with preservation of the houses’ functional purpose,” V. Nikitsin said.

As said by him, the altered development plan of Karl Marx Street includes facades refurbishment, providing yards with facilities, news parking places, and creation of public catering enterprises, entertainment venues and trade enterprises.

As we have informed, dwellers of Karl Marx Street held protest rallies against their resettlement. And today we can congratulate them on victory over lawlessness of bureaucrats.