Together with plans to construct a new football stadium in Lucavsala, officials may commence discussions about finding a different place for the people who are using Lucavsala’s small gardens, said the chairman of Riga City Council Vilnis Ķirsis in an interview to TV3 programme 900 seconds.
He said the football stadium is not planned to be constructed on top of the small gardens. However, development of connecting infrastructure may still affect small garden users.
At the same time, the mayor said this is nothing new, because development of Lucavsala and construction of new roads has been in the works in the capital city for decades.
“It’s clear it may affect them [small gardens]. We can talk about various balancing mechanisms. Give the people some other place for small gardens, for example,” Ķirsis said.
He said that the experts who performed a careful assessment were the ones who said Lucavsala is the best location for a new football stadium.
Family gardeners association Kazas sēklis urges Riga City Council to choose a different location for the football stadium, as stated in the letter sent by the association to members of Riga City Council.
The letter mentions that the association has 326 gardens that are essential for their owners and tenants for growing food, educating children, as well as other recreational activities. At the same time, authors of the letter don’t hide the fact that some of those gardens are untended. Nevertheless, demand for territory has gone up recently and nearly all plots of land are tended and in use now.
On the 2nd of April, at the meeting of the Riga City Council’s City Property Committee, a draft decision was supported on the transfer of a ten-hectare plot of land for gratuitous use for five years to the Latvian Football Federation (LFF) for the construction of a national football stadium in Lucavsala.
The final decision on the granting of land for gratuitous use to the LFF will be made by the Riga City Council.
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