The designer of the new boulevard on 27 de Febrero Avenue, architect Danny P?rez, plans to summit to the Public Works Ministry and the Technical Secretariat of the Presidency plans and designs for an idea he has to save the Haina River from environmental degradation: the creation of a "Haina Ecological Mirador Park." The concept is to declare a strip on both sides of the Haina as a "green belt," untouchable by housing and commercial development. The strip, which P?rez conceives as running from the Santo Domingo-San Crist?bal Highway until Manoguayabo, would be developed as an "ecological park" for citizens and tourists to enjoy boating, open spaces, perhaps some sculptures and mini-theaters for folkloric presentations, etc. P?rez is proposing the concept, he says, so that the DR can avoid with the Haina what has happened to the Ozama River on the other side of Santo Domingo: uncontrolled growth on its banks, with rapid environmental deterioration of the river and its environs.
