Final holdouts facing eviction as city nears total clearance of South Pattaya canal zone

PATTAYA:--Two weeks after discovering that 25 large commercial buildings near Walking Street were encroaching on the South Pattaya storm-drainage canal, Pattaya officials say only a few landowners remain as obstacles to clearing the flood-control waterway.

Following the May 14 announcement by Pattaya Deputy Mayor Verawat Khakhay that a collection of buildings near the Soho Square section of Walking Street were also built over the waterway, city Engineering and Public Health department staffers went to work to get property owners to remove structures blocking the canal, which feeds storm runoff into the sea.

Among them were a guesthouse opposite Soho Square owned by Pithak Pottian, who built rental rooms over the canal, and the Right Spot Inn, which constructed employee dormitories on the canal. Both owners were given 60 days to remove the structures.

In a May 27 progress meeting with Banglamung District Chief Sakchai Taengho and Pattaya Business & Tourism Association President Sinchai Wattanasartsathorn, Verawat said most landowners have cooperated with the city, but several, including Pithak, are not.

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-- Pattaya Mail 2014-06-06

And who is going to argue with that yellow thing in the picture?

I love this new junta, nobody can buy friends in high places any more.