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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a result of residents\u2019 protests, the felling of trees in the Tab\u00e1n, together with the entire plan for transforming this Budapest green area, is being revisited. In just a week\u2019s time local civil society representatives managed to get the mayor to forbid the cutting of trees, and F\u0151kert to invite them to attend a joint planning process. In a few days\u2019 time 1300 people signed the petition started by a local resident on SzabadaHang (The FreeVoice) and over 1,000 people sent a letter through the aHang interface to the mayor of Budapest, the mayor of the 1st district, director of F\u0150KERT J\u00f3zsef Szab\u00f3 and the newly appointed Mayor’s Commissioner for the Environment, who promised in front of RTL\u2019s camera that they would reduce the rubber-covered surface, find a more reasonable venue for the baby changing area, and save as many trees as possible. All this would be discussed with locals in person and online.<\/p>\n
The construction machines would not return to Tab\u00e1n until the transformation plans are acceptable to the locals, the head F\u0150KERT promised in RTL\u2019s news program. All this happened a week after Tab\u00e1n\u2019s transformation plans became public and preparations for the works began.<\/p>\n
According to the original plans, a huge playground and fitness park would be built in the Tab\u00e1n and the area would be covered with rubber mats. Most of the vegetation would be \u201creplaced\u201d and the whole park would undergo a facelift. A change of such a magnitude and direction is unacceptable to the locals. They want Tab\u00e1n to preserve its original character and natural values.<\/p>\n
To this end, on August 29 a local resident started collecting signatures on the SzabadaHang platform with hundreds of people signing the petition in just a matter of hours. By now, together with the offline signatures, the number of signatures has reached around 1,500. By Monday, the locals had put together a letter that was sent to Mayor of Budapest Istv\u00e1n Tarl\u00f3s, Mayor of District 1 G\u00e1bor Tam\u00e1s Nagy, and J\u00f3zsef Szab\u00f3, Director of F\u0150KERT Zrt by over 1,000 people. A total of nearly 3,000 letters have been received by local politicians and the head of F\u0150KERT.<\/p>\n
As a result of the strong protest, Istv\u00e1n Tarl\u00f3s sent the following message from his trip abroad last week: \u201cNo trees can be cut in Tab\u00e1n.\u201d Immediately afterwards, he appointed J\u00f3zsef Szab\u00f3 as Commissioner for Green Policy. J\u00f3zsef Szab\u00f3 told RTL yesterday that they were revising the renovation plans in consultation with the locals.<\/p>\n
It is still not clear why this has not been done before, but the locals are already focusing on streamlining the negotiation process and renewing Taban in a more sustainable way while preserving as much valuable green space as possible.<\/p>\n
Their biggest problem with the current plans was that 43 trees would have to be cut to make way for it, that the area to be covered with rubber mats was too big, and that the plan contained a large number of elements that were alien to the landscape and would not fit into the park which is soon to reach the age of protection. On top of it all, their maintenance would not be feasible anyway.<\/p>\n
The locals do welcome the idea of \u200b\u200brenewing the Tab\u00e1n, but they want it to see it happen while preserving its existing natural values \u200b\u200band image.<\/p>\n
This is not the first success that local civil society groups have achieved regarding similar issues with the help of aHang. Following a campaign to save the trees on Pozsonyi Road last summer, F\u0150KERT stopped the drastic tree pruning works carried out in the area and only proceeded after consulting with the locals and reaching a consensus. Recently, local residents won an issue of a larger scale, partly protesting on the aHang platform: thanks to the substantial civil society pressure, the felling of trees in the area was not started.<\/p>\n
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As a result of residents\u2019 protests, construction works in the Tab\u00e1n have been stopped. We are proud to have been able to support their fight!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"staatic_meta_publish":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[32,34,33],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/09\/Taban-1956-emlekmu.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4h4n9.ahang.hu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}