Defiant developer claims Pattaya ‘envelopes’ allow closed building site to open as parking lot

PATTAYA:--A developer barred from constructing a new building next to the South Pattaya flood-drainage canal has turned the property into a parking lot, claiming he’s paying a local official to allow it.

 

Pattaya earlier issued a stop-work order on the new building and demolished an illegal bridge constructed over the canal. The landowner claims the building is going up on private property and is fighting the order and blockade of the construction site.

 

So instead the property has been opened for parking at night to serve Walking Street tourists with employees collecting up to 100 baht per vehicle.

 

The unnamed property owner said the parking lot is being allowed to operate by a local official being paid 2,500 baht a month.

-- PATTAYA MAIL 2019-07-24—

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1 hour ago, Rimmer said:

a local official being paid 2,500 baht a month.

Bargain?

I want to be a local official. It sounds like a great job.

 

Property Owner, City Officials Resolve Misunderstanding

Why aren't there more of these parking lots around?  The one next to Immigration is a goldmine at 40 baht a throw.  Thanks to the efficiency of soi 5 officials that can be an expensive five minutes.

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There should be designated parking areas for tour buses. Instead they park on back to back on sois and make a two lane road into a one lane road. 

Situation normal then.