On July 19, the Lviv District Administrative Court refused to uphold the lawsuit of the garage cooperatives, which sought to cancel the decision of the Lviv Regional Council on the creation of a landscape reserve of local importance “Torfovishche Bilogorshcha”. Therefore, the decision to create a reserve remains valid.
Active Lviv residents initiated the creation of a reserve in Biloghorsh in 2017. Then the Lviv City Council supported the residents’ petition, gave consent to the creation of a peatland and transferred the land to the Lviv Regional Council, which created a landscape reserve of local importance “Bilogorshcha Peatland”.
However, on the eve of the creation of the Lviv community, representatives of the former Ryasne-Ruska rural council distributed 58 hectares of unique reserve lands to the newly created auto garage cooperatives, and now the courts are continuing for this territory.
Local activists have long sought the legal protection status of this territory, and only in 2019 the Lviv Regional Council officially created a landscape reserve of local importance “Bilogorshcha Peatland” with an area of 92 hectares. The corresponding decisions were supported by the Lviv City Council.
However, five garage cooperatives tried through the court to cancel the decision of the Lviv Regional Council, which created a landscape reserve.
“The Lviv City Council actively participated in the court process, because the contested decision was made on the basis of the decisions of the LMR,” the lawyers explain.
Therefore, today, July 19, the Lviv District Administrative Court refused to grant the lawsuit to the cooperatives. The decision to create a landscape reserve of local importance “Torfovishche Bilogorshcha” remains in force.
“The court’s decision is important for the city community, because after establishing the boundaries of the “Torfovishche Bilogorshcha” reserve, the community will have an object of the nature reserve fund on the city’s borders,” said Olga Polishchuk, chief specialist of the legal department of the Lviv City Council.
Now the urban planning department of the Lviv City Council will develop technical documentation with land management regarding the approval of the boundaries of the reserve after the decision enters into legal force. The city will produce technical documentation regarding the organization and establishment of the boundaries of the territory of the nature reserve fund for the preservation and use of the reserve.
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Unique peat bog complexes are located on the territory of the landscape reserve of local importance “Torfovishche Bilogorshcha”. According to the results of research by specialists of Lviv scientific institutions, 42 species of rare plants grow here, and the places of distribution of 25 species of animals have been recorded.