Engineer Angel Nerys Castillo, director of the Development Projects Financing Department (DEFINPRO) at the Central Bank, favors changing the law that bans the construction of buildings of more than three floors (11 meters) in Puerto Plata. Law 256 prohibits buildings higher than palm trees in order to preserve the ambience of a tropical vacation area. But Engineer Castillo says the high cost of land in Puerto Plata makes that law obsolete. Builders have requested the law be revoked to lower the cost of new construction.
