Simferopol – The Supreme Council of Crimea has amended its decision regarding the determination of the borders of Yalta city.
As a correspondent of Interfax-Ukraine reported, on Wednesday during an unscheduled session of the Crimean parliament a total of 78 MPs of those 81 present at the voting supported this decision.
According to an explanatory note for the draft document, the Crimean parliament received an appeal from Yalta city council on July 1, 2013 about the need to make amendments to a decision approved on June 25, 2012 by the Supreme Council of Crimea on determining Yalta’s borders with regards to the remarks of the Verkhovna Rada committee on state building and local government, for further consideration by Ukraine’s parliament.
According to the approved decision, the Crimean parliament introduced to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine a proposal on the establishment of Yalta’s borders, with an area of 1,820.2 hectares, on the basis of part 1 Article 174 of the Land Code of Ukraine.
However, the sizes of the city were increased by 84.344 hectares due to the inclusion in them of plots of land with areas of 94.26 hectares (including the lands of Yalta city council – 91.687 hectares, Massandra village council – 2.299 hectares, Livadia village council – 0.274 hectares), as well as through the transfer of Yalta land with an area of 9.916 hectares (including 3.766 hectares to Yalta city council, 5.96 hectares to Massandra village council, and 0.19 hectares to Livadia village council).
