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Mayor of Vysoke Tatry: New Zoning Scheme Won't Harm Local Nature
Friday 19 February 2010 Zoom in | Print page
Vysoke Tatry, February 19 (TASR) – The new zoning scheme in the High Tatra National Park (TANAP) won't turn the town of Vysoke Tatry into a concrete jungle as several members of the Slovak media have reported, according to the town's mayor Jan Mokos.
Mokos thinks that the new zoning scheme is mainly focused on creating a cosy environment that would provide comfortable living conditions and good quality services for permanent residents in the area.
Mokos said that the area of the national park on which construction work is being carried out at the moment represents only 1.5 percent of the total, while the new zones will increase the ratio to 2 percent - which is "not that much".
"There are national parks where it's fifty-fifty," argued Mokos. In his opinion, Slovakia's attempts to protect national parks across the board are actually a bad idea. "I only protect what I have to," he said.
Mokos also emphasised that cardinal mistakes were made vis-a-vis delimiting the frontiers of TANAP in the era of communism, i.e. before 1989. "Back then, our predecessors did this unprofessionally, as it makes no sense to have parking areas and roads included in zones with the highest level of protection," he said.
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