Reader opinion The massive apartment building project threatens the uniqueness of the Park

The plan change idea does not take into account the special features of the residential area, the traffic effects or the City of Helsinki’s own principles of fairness and equality.

Helsinki the city organized a Teams presentation on the change in the town plan for the park’s station on December 8th. According to the proposal, five- and six-storey apartment buildings will be built on the 100-year-old detached house area, and the project, which is incomprehensibly large, threatens to destroy the Park’s distinctiveness and comfort as a living environment.

If the plots of detached houses on the trackside are to be converted into blocks of flats for the residents at the request of the residents, it can be concluded that the first change in the town plan will give rise to the following and subsequent corresponding projects.

At the presentation, architect Joakim Kettunen appealed that the plan change project had been initiated by the residents. Where does the idea come from that the city would have an obligation to sacrifice its detached house areas on behalf of the few residents who will benefit financially from the project and leave the area after the project is completed? What about the numerous residents who will remain in the Park?

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Many excellent speeches were made at the presentation, highlighting the efficiency of the project in the city center (current formula E0.25 and here E1.28), unequal and patchy implementation (apartment buildings rising between detached houses or across the narrow alley) and above all

The change in the plan was justified by Helsinki’s construction goals and the fact that the station area must be close to the city center and dominated by apartment buildings. However, six new detached houses have been built in the park in the immediate vicinity of Simakuja and Vahakuja in the immediate vicinity of the proposed plan change, and these plans did not exist at that time.

The plots have been acquired because of the specific desire to live in a detached house area with good transport links, and the area is attractive precisely because of its distinctiveness. The park is a very development-friendly area with detached houses of different ages, suitable for the environment and surrounding buildings, as well as two-storey terraced houses. In this project, the adaptation of apartment buildings to the environment has been done by proposing the staggering of the roof shape on the side of detached houses, which represents a caricature of adaptation to the environment for our residents. The difference in ridge height to the detached houses on the other side of Simakuja is 15 meters.

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This change of formula idea does not take into account the special features of the residential area, the traffic effects of the project or the City of Helsinki’s own principles of fairness and equality, and is therefore unsustainable.

Kari Koponen

Chairman of the Park Society

Taru Kerb

Risto Pukki

Park, Helsinki

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