The Taif Municipality stopped continuing the implementation of the Butterfly Garden project (previously Al-Madbaa) in Al-Hawiyah, without prior notice. And “Okaz” monitored the suspension of work after announcing the start of its implementation, and the newspaper contacted several times with the Department of Relations and Information in it, to find out with it the reasons for stopping, and no response was received.
A number of residents revealed that the park's project boards were placed 4 months ago with concrete castings surrounding it, signaling the start and stop of work without prior notice. Nawaf Al-Otaibi indicated that the project stopped suddenly, while Talal Al-Roqi pointed out that the garden needed development for years, and “what a joy it was.”
And the former Mayor of Taif, Eng. Ahmed Al-Qathami, announced in a press statement 4 months ago the launch of the start-up to implement the project to enhance the green area and increase public outlets, within the programs of quality of life, humanization of cities, and improvement of the urban landscape. He revealed that the start of implementation came after the completion of the engineering and (three-dimensional) design works, in which the appropriateness of the general appearance was taken into account, the increase of green spaces, trees, sports games, children’s games and walkways according to international standards for gardens and outlets, the geographical nature of the site, and the creation of a general outlet for the people and tourists in which all are available. Public services and facilities.
And he indicated that the Municipality worked to exploit the geographical and environmental factors of the city of Taif to find distinctive models of parks and gardens, and to provide highly efficient services to the people, indicating that the Municipality's plans to enhance outlets include the establishment of many public parks and green spaces, supported by the necessary services that guarantee quality of life and attract Residents and visitors from outside the city.
At the time, the Undersecretary for Projects, Engineer Abdulaziz Al-Shamrani, noted that the park is currently being implemented on a total area of more than 166 thousand square meters, and contains a sports walkway with an area of 17 thousand square meters, a length of 1500 meters and a width of 12 meters, and the requirements for walking are taken into account, in addition to Motivational and educational messages. The park also contains children's amusement parks with an area of 1,492 square meters, sports fields, parking lots, shaded family sessions and chairs, and investment sites with an area of 16,000 square meters. It contains a cinema hall, restaurants, cafeterias, a glass cage for birds, and other services. The park includes green spaces With an area of 50,000 square meters, and “hard scape” sites with an area of 58,000 square meters, including interactive fountains.
Information about the park:
166 thousand square meters area
It contains children's amusement parks
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