{"id":60090,"date":"2011-01-29T11:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=60090"},"modified":"2011-01-29T11:37:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:37:33","slug":"yerevan-residents-continue-protesting-building-construction-in-their-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/01\/29\/yerevan-residents-continue-protesting-building-construction-in-their-yard.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Residents Continue Protesting Building Construction in their Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 12 pm today, residents of buildings at 21 Teryan St., 42 (Yeznik) Koghbatsi St. and 40 Pushkin St. in Yerevan will be organizing a protest against the construction of a high-rise building in their yard, according to the civil initiative &#8220;We are the owners of this city.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to members of the group, construction threatens to usurp the yard&#8217;s recreation area and endanger the surrounding buildings in terms of seismic safety and urban development.<\/p>\n<p>Recall, it&#8217;s been a few days that residents have been preventing construction. Each time construction vehicles begin work, they come out into the yard and stand in the construction area, asking workers to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Despite police instructions, people continue to insist that they will fight &#8220;till the end&#8221; for their rights and won&#8217;t allow the construction of a building in their yard.<\/p>\n<p>Residents also prepared a petition addressed to Yerevan mayor Karen Karapetyan. When Epress.am last spoke to them, they were gathering signatures prior to sending the petition to city hall.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 12 pm today, residents of buildings at 21 Teryan St., 42 (Yeznik) Koghbatsi St. and 40 Pushkin St. in Yerevan will be organizing a&#8230; <!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20816,20817,20818,20815,10355],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}