In Cabarete, there is no government. We can not expect many things from the town hall, the ministry of tourism and the environment to enforce the laws.
The house of the Rocon in Cabarete is a typical example of the barbarities that occur and are maintained in Cabarete in terms of construction and protection of the laws concerned.
Today, December 3, the owner of the Rocon house, located on the old road that goes to Encuentro beach, is doing work on the 60 meter strip, public and protected area, removing and removing the sand from the front From the beach, to a height and depth of about 3 meters. The pool, which was blocked by order of authorities, due to a previous action and complaint, is uncovered and is sure to reappear in a short time, violating the law in plain sight. The 60 meters are now closed with a cyclonic mesh and there are quantities of tubes that are in sight on the beach. You even see one of the pipes inside the sand, which indicates the work above the law and the authorities.
That house, from the beginning of its construction in 2014, was made completely outside the territorial order and to the limit and within the strip of the 60 meters of the beach, in clear violation of the established parameters. It has not stopped denouncing what was committed in that construction
The original plans were approved with 2 floors with a minimum occupation of the land by the tourism ministry.
Result: 4 floors and a land occupation of almost 100% and has no space available for the facilities and amenities established. In January 2016, the construction of a septic was reported inside the beach, a swimming pool and a wall, within 60 meters of beach.
Environment destroyed at least the septic and knocked down the wall, also ordered to cover the pool with sand, knowing that in the future, the pool would reappear.
From the tourism ministry, there has been no action or sanction against the owner of the house. It has always been like this and it will always be like this with the tourism officials we have. Many illegal constructions have been denounced in Cabarete and the tourism ministry always becomes the blind.
Surely the owner of the house has relations with some of the officials and makes it easier to build the 4 or 5 floors, but that does not matter.
They occupy the whole of the land, with construction, doing completely the opposite of what territorial regulation dictates, but it does not matter.
That they make fun of the approved plans, doing what they want, it does not matter.
That if it is necessary to approve the plans again with the irregularities by tourism, it does not matter. The ministry approves it as they approved many projects in the 60 meters. Should we ask the tourism minister, why did he sign a tourism resolution in 2012 for Cabarete? Why is it not applied or respected?
We have a provincial director and a deputy minister of tourism in Puerto Plata but we do not see any forceful action on the part of them. Everyone keeps quiet and no one gives a face or says nothing.
Of the city council of Cabarete and Sosua, it is not necessary to speak because they are the first ones that are negotiating the arbitrarios with the promoters themselves. After the taxes are paid, the council does not appear any more and leaves to the promoters.
So we are in Cabarete ...
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