Published: March 2023 (3 years ago) in issue Nº 404
Keywords: Auroville Town Development Council (ATDC) / L’Avenir d’Auroville and Mahalakshmi Park
Gaia work
The FO ATDC points out that most of the residences in the Gaia community are in the designated Mahalakshmi Park, even though one of these residences received building permission in the recent past. “Residences, houses and or motorised traffic are not appropriate in city parks, and the modalities to make this shift this will be looked into in the coming months; the residents of these city parks will be asked to make some changes in their lifestyle and their function within these areas, including but not limited to the use of vehicles within these parks”.
As a first step, walking/cycle paths through the parks are being identified and their surface compacted with brick kerbs on either side. In future, says the FO FAMC, fences between houses in the park area will be removed entirely or else reduced to the bare minimum.