Why it is important to preserve the Ecopark
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3 extraordinary important reasons to keep southern Osokorki from buildings and create a landscape nature park in this area:
1. The public needs a viable green zone on Osokorky and Pozniaky.
2. Preservation of a unique ecosystem of wetlands with pure lakes and floodplain meadows.
3. Potential collapse of social and transport infrastructure of Darnytskyi district.
Let’s look at each item in detail below.
1. The public needs a viable green zone on Osokorky and Pozniaky.
2. Preservation of a unique ecosystem of wetlands with pure lakes and floodplain meadows.
3. Potential collapse of social and transport infrastructure of Darnytskyi district.
Let’s look at each item in detail below.
Why it is important
1. The public needs a viable green zone on Osokorky and Pozniaky.
Osokorky and Pozniaky are some of the most densely populated settlements of the city. Simultaneously, the only park on Osokorky and Pozniaky is a small square with young trees near the Pozniaky metro station.
The purest lakes of Kyiv Nebrezh and Martyshiv, which border the densely built residential districts of Osokorky and Pozniaky, are beautiful for holidaymakers. This is actually the only place in the area where residents can walk in nature, and not among high-rise buildings and asphalt. Here you can always see people walking with children’s prams, running, walking dogs, riding bikes, resting in gazebos, etc. And in the summer, there are more holidaymakers on the lake beaches than on the seashore, without exaggeration, like at sea. There are blooming floodplain meadows, canals, small lakes, which are excellent places for walks and rest to the south, behind lakes and groves.
That is exactly why this de facto park area is so important for ensuring a normal, harmonious life of Osokorky and Pozniaky residents and the entire Darnytskyi district and the city of Kyiv in general.
The area along Kolektorna street spreading 700-1000 meters all the way to the lakes (especially the part adjacent directly to Kolektorna street), which has been heavily clogged over the past ten years, should be brought to order and transformed into a regular urban park with the appropriate infrastructure – lighting, trails, children’s and sports grounds, equipped beaches, etc. The territory to the south should obtain the appropriate conservation status with limited recreation.
The purest lakes of Kyiv Nebrezh and Martyshiv, which border the densely built residential districts of Osokorky and Pozniaky, are beautiful for holidaymakers. This is actually the only place in the area where residents can walk in nature, and not among high-rise buildings and asphalt. Here you can always see people walking with children’s prams, running, walking dogs, riding bikes, resting in gazebos, etc. And in the summer, there are more holidaymakers on the lake beaches than on the seashore, without exaggeration, like at sea. There are blooming floodplain meadows, canals, small lakes, which are excellent places for walks and rest to the south, behind lakes and groves.
That is exactly why this de facto park area is so important for ensuring a normal, harmonious life of Osokorky and Pozniaky residents and the entire Darnytskyi district and the city of Kyiv in general.
The area along Kolektorna street spreading 700-1000 meters all the way to the lakes (especially the part adjacent directly to Kolektorna street), which has been heavily clogged over the past ten years, should be brought to order and transformed into a regular urban park with the appropriate infrastructure – lighting, trails, children’s and sports grounds, equipped beaches, etc. The territory to the south should obtain the appropriate conservation status with limited recreation.
2. Preservation of a unique ecosystem of wetlands with pure lakes and floodplain meadows.
Lakes Nebrezh, Martyshiv, Tiahle, canals and groves around them, and, most importantly, flowery flood plain meadows, being the last remnants of the landscape complexes of the left bank floodplain of the Dnipro river, which are preserved in almost original state within Kyiv only at Osokorky. This area serves as a home to many florae and fauna representatives, listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine.
3. Potential collapse of social and transport infrastructure of Darnytskyi district.
It becomes more difficult to register a child into a kindergarten or first-grade school every year since all pre-school and school facilities are overcrowded. Of course, new educational institutions are being built, but their number is absolutely incommensurate with the growth rate of new buildings without adequate social infrastructure and population of Darnytskyi district. Often the problem is the absence of a place for the construction of a school or a kindergarten within new residential neighborhoods.
Another serious problem is the overload of the Southern Bridge and subway in the morning and evening with a clear tendency to deteriorate the situation. It is already quite problematic to get on the metro train in the morning at the Osokorky station. Traffic jams in the Pivdennyi Bridge's direction begin near the Pozniaky metro station in the morning and the evening behind Leroy Merlin's construction hypermarket.
Even 10 years ago, there were practically no such problems transportation-wise.
Further thoughtless residential development of Osokorky and Pozniaky will inevitably lead to a social and transport collapse. The normal residence in the Darnytskyi district will become impossible.
Another serious problem is the overload of the Southern Bridge and subway in the morning and evening with a clear tendency to deteriorate the situation. It is already quite problematic to get on the metro train in the morning at the Osokorky station. Traffic jams in the Pivdennyi Bridge's direction begin near the Pozniaky metro station in the morning and the evening behind Leroy Merlin's construction hypermarket.
Even 10 years ago, there were practically no such problems transportation-wise.
Further thoughtless residential development of Osokorky and Pozniaky will inevitably lead to a social and transport collapse. The normal residence in the Darnytskyi district will become impossible.