The appeal was published on petition platform On site Kyiv City Council.
The petitioner emphasizes that in times of war it is important to preserve jobs. According to him, the dismantling of each kiosk can mean a loss of income for two or three people. It is also noted that small businesses provide citizens with goods within walking distance and pay taxes to the budget.
The text of the appeal also states that the process of dismantling, transporting and storing temporary structures requires significant expenses from the city budget. According to the author, in the context of regular Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, these funds would be more appropriate to direct to strengthening the city's energy security.
Photo: KP “Kyivblagoustriy”
Among the proposals are a moratorium on dismantling legally established MAFs until the end of the war, an audit of the Department of Territorial Control's spending, and redirecting funds from the dismantling program to purchase energy equipment, including generators and inverters. It is also proposed to create a working group with the participation of small business representatives to prepare a post-war street trading reform.
Earlier, the Kyiv City State Administration reported that 33 temporary structures with expired documents were dismantled in the center of the capital - 27 on the street Khreshchatyk and six on Independence Square. Work on demolishing MAFs is also ongoing in other areas of Kyiv.
Previously, PRAGMATIKA.MEDIA has already analyzed the situation around small architectural forms in the material "MAFs in Neighborhoods: Aesthetics of Chaos or Logic of Urban Survival?". In it, experts — urban designer Sofia Bondar, architect Oleksandra Naryzhna, and urbanist Heorhiy Maksymenko — explained that the mass spread of kiosks in Kyiv was a response to the spatial deficit of commerce in Soviet microdistricts. Due to the planning model, where the first floors of residential buildings did not provide for business, small retail actually had no place in capital development. In this void, MAFs became a rapid economic adaptation of the city — they appeared where residents' daily routes passed, providing access to goods and services near their homes. At the same time, the expert community assesses their role differently: from a necessary element of the small-scale urban economy to a temporary solution that must yield to systemic architectural and development approaches.
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