New posting from a reserved gent to shed some light on the workings of Cabarete's governance. Here is the link:
Inversionistas siguen burlando de los reglamentos del Plan del Ordenamiento Territorial de Cabarete | Cabarete noticias
Here is the mere Google translation (as bad as it is):
Investors still mocking regulations Zoning Plan Cabarete
June 4, 2013 | Filed under: News | Posted by: caba8255
Cabarete-MAP AU-GEOREFER DECREE
Without doubt one of the biggest challenges that the new Regional Director MITUR Sancassani Lorenzo faces in Cabarete is the persistence of certain investors to maximize their profits violating building regulations in the Plan of Land of Cabarete, approved by the Presidential Decree 847-09.
On the one hand there is the problem of projects already built under the regime of Vice Minister of MITUR in Puerto Plata famous for his practice of helping investors who had problems with the regulations. What to do with these illegal projects? According to the Department of Projects and Planning (DPP / MITUR), you can not demolish them and can only deny permits the owners of the projects call for ex-facto titles for buyers of condominiums.
And you can do the Regional Director when an influential project owners who have managed to get up to five presidential decrees now Leonel Fernandez and Danilo Medina for your project, and yet the actual construction is not allowed. The last presidential decree in December 2012 seems to override the rules of the Land Use Plan of Cabarete on building height for that project.
But now we see the case of an investor who really want to test the system under the new Regional Director. This is a new three-story building in the center of Cabarete Beach Restaurant 200 meters Sancassani Lorenzo Pomodoro. The owner of the building used a MITUR architect of Puerto Plata to design the building and do the only MITUR technical review of these plans as the basis of the letter of no objection from the Deputy Minister. But that was before the appointment of Mr. Sancassani as Regional Director.
The novelty is that a few weeks ago the same owner, without asking anyone's permission, began to put a fourth floor in your building in an area where only allowed three floors. This week with the new structure almost finished the representative of DPP / MITUR in Cabarete did an inspection and notified the owner that the construction is illegal.
So far, no one knows what action is going to take the Regional Director. Unfortunately neither the Regional Director nor the Ministry of Tourism has the authority to order the demolition of the new structure without a court order. The lack of this authority means a weakness in the system that this country has to enforce building regulations and standards. If inspectors are not sufficiently vigilant and if you can finish a work before coming to the attention of MITUR, it's almost like no matter the regulations.
Mr. Sancassani has promised to defend the Land Use Plan and its regulations. If the owner of this building does not voluntarily dismantle its fourth floor, the only option that the Regional Director has to send a message to others who want to try the same thing is to make a complaint in court and ask the court to order the demolition of the illegal structure.
Inversionistas siguen burlando de los reglamentos del Plan del Ordenamiento Territorial de Cabarete | Cabarete noticias
Here is the mere Google translation (as bad as it is):
Investors still mocking regulations Zoning Plan Cabarete
June 4, 2013 | Filed under: News | Posted by: caba8255
Cabarete-MAP AU-GEOREFER DECREE
Without doubt one of the biggest challenges that the new Regional Director MITUR Sancassani Lorenzo faces in Cabarete is the persistence of certain investors to maximize their profits violating building regulations in the Plan of Land of Cabarete, approved by the Presidential Decree 847-09.
On the one hand there is the problem of projects already built under the regime of Vice Minister of MITUR in Puerto Plata famous for his practice of helping investors who had problems with the regulations. What to do with these illegal projects? According to the Department of Projects and Planning (DPP / MITUR), you can not demolish them and can only deny permits the owners of the projects call for ex-facto titles for buyers of condominiums.
And you can do the Regional Director when an influential project owners who have managed to get up to five presidential decrees now Leonel Fernandez and Danilo Medina for your project, and yet the actual construction is not allowed. The last presidential decree in December 2012 seems to override the rules of the Land Use Plan of Cabarete on building height for that project.
But now we see the case of an investor who really want to test the system under the new Regional Director. This is a new three-story building in the center of Cabarete Beach Restaurant 200 meters Sancassani Lorenzo Pomodoro. The owner of the building used a MITUR architect of Puerto Plata to design the building and do the only MITUR technical review of these plans as the basis of the letter of no objection from the Deputy Minister. But that was before the appointment of Mr. Sancassani as Regional Director.
The novelty is that a few weeks ago the same owner, without asking anyone's permission, began to put a fourth floor in your building in an area where only allowed three floors. This week with the new structure almost finished the representative of DPP / MITUR in Cabarete did an inspection and notified the owner that the construction is illegal.
So far, no one knows what action is going to take the Regional Director. Unfortunately neither the Regional Director nor the Ministry of Tourism has the authority to order the demolition of the new structure without a court order. The lack of this authority means a weakness in the system that this country has to enforce building regulations and standards. If inspectors are not sufficiently vigilant and if you can finish a work before coming to the attention of MITUR, it's almost like no matter the regulations.
Mr. Sancassani has promised to defend the Land Use Plan and its regulations. If the owner of this building does not voluntarily dismantle its fourth floor, the only option that the Regional Director has to send a message to others who want to try the same thing is to make a complaint in court and ask the court to order the demolition of the illegal structure.
