AMMAN — The
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) designed a strategic plan to create 13 new
parks and renovate 26 others, over the next five years, said the city director
for health and agricultural affairs at GAM, Mervat Mhairat.
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The plan, which
will cost JD44 million, and will be implemented between 2022 and 2026, also
entails carrying out the fourth and fifth stage of works at King Abdullah II
park, and renovating King Abdullah I park in Wadi Saqra, Mhairat said.
Amman, she said,
has 143 parks, four of which are major: Al-Hussein public parks, Queen Rania
Al-Abdullah park, Al-Jubaiha park, and
King Abdullah II park.
Mhairat told
Jordan
News that the municipality started applying the “safe garden” strategy in
2017, when more than 70 parks were renovated by increasing security and, in the
case of 19 parks, installing electronic surveillance systems.
She stressed the importance of gardens and
green spaces in the city, and pointed out that citizens can check out the
nearest park on the municipality website and, if they feel it is the case,
submit complaints via GAM’s social media accounts or application.
She also pointed
out that while many playgrounds in the parks may be accessed freely by
citizens, some can be booked at nominal prices on the municipality website.
According to Mhairat, five agricultural
centers provide services to gardens; they are located in southern Amman, in
Muqabalain, northern Amman, in Jubaiha, western Amman, in Tla’ a Al-Ali,
central Amman, on
Prince Hussein
Street, and East Amman, in Mahatta.
Abdallah Dreiat,
a climate activist, complained about the poor urban planning that many
Jordanian cities face, particularly the lack of vegetation.
“Back in the
1980s, there were much more green spaces in the city,” while now “Amman is like
cement cubes”, he said.
Talking about
the municipality’s plan to add more greenery to the city, he said: “This
project, if planned and done correctly, will have a hugely positive effect on
the climate and the city aesthetics.”
But he added “there are
some points that need to be thought of, such as the fair distribution of the
parks across
Amman, and establishing urban forests after studying their
environmental, social and economic effect.”
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