ASSESSMENT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF PLANTINGS FOR THE POPULATION OF SOME CITIES OF THE IRKUTSK REGION

Abstract

When studying the issues of the viability of settlements, a significant indicator in the context of landscaping is the provision of the population with plantings on public facilities, such as the area of green areas of public use, in square meters, per inhabitant. The state regulation of the number, condition, placement of plantings and landscaping objects of the city is carried out depending on its size, area, population, climatic and forest-growing zone, the presence of industrial facilities within its borders and the hazard class. For a specific study, only landscaping objects were studied (less often self-growing areas or remnants of indigenous forests that are not registered in the Public Cadastral Map as building territories), classified as public use objects with an area of at least 200 m2, on which trees occupy at least 50% of the area. The main methods were adopted – visual assessment (when determining objects and the proportion of plantings within the boundaries of objects), analysis (when comparing General planning materials, visual assessment materials obtained and laws of various levels), calculated (for the area of provision of residents with plantings). For the study of public landscaping objects, the author's methodology has been developed and tested, based on some principles, including 5 main stages of study. The analysis of the collected materials shows that public landscaping facilities in 11 studied cities of the Irkutsk region are not enough to provide even an outdated standard area of plantings of 7-10 m2 per person. Despite the fact that not only parks and squares of citywide significance were taken into account, but also self-growing areas, and remnants of forests among residential buildings, security rarely exceeds 50% of the norm. There are no digital data on landscaping in the General Plan of the city of Baikalsk, but one object in the Public Cadastral Map is taken into account for the organization of the park. In the materials on G. Ust-Kutu, it was noted that the recreational zone with plantings occupies more than 97% of the city's territory. For the cities of Taishet, Zima, Kirensk, Biryusinsk, it is only planned to create a landscaping system. There is one public landscaping facility in Alzamai. Residents of the cities of Shelekhov, Svirsk, Vikhorevka and Alzamai can be considered conditionally provided with plantings.