Despite residents’ appeals, Pattaya proceeds with home demolitions at Naklua canal

PATTAYA:--Pattaya officials said they will demolish 20 apartment buildings encroaching on the Nokyang canal despite appeals to a provincial board that the city was violating residents’ rights in its effort to clear the Naklua flood-control trench of obstructions.

 

Deputy Mayor Vichien Pongpanit led city workers and soldiers on an inspection of the canal area June 16 to follow up demands that residents stop dumping trash into the waterway and prepare to relocate.

 

Following his inspection, Vichien said the trash issue had received good response and now was 80 percent cleaner. The city will now dredge the canal to improve storm water drainage.

 

Pattaya earlier issued demolition orders for 91 houses and cited an additional 25, saying all were built on top of or partly obstructed the public canal, worsening flooding in the area. They were given 15 days to remove their structures or face legal action and demolition by the city.

 

The city’s plan is to first evict people renting property while giving those who own their own homes more time. But all residents were warned that during the transition period they must keep the area clean and not further pollute or obstruct the canal.

 

Read more: http://www.pattayamail.com/news/despite-residents-appeals-pattaya-proceeds-home-demolitions-naklua-canal-178505

 

-- © Copyright Pattaya Mail 2017-06-23

I've got deja-vu.

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Following his inspection, Vichien said the trash issue had received good response and now was 80 percent cleaner.

I wonder how they measured that.

 

Let me guess:

- big wig lets everyone know he is coming over

- local people decide where to show big wig around

- everything along the route the bigwig will take is cleaned up quickly

- bigwig likes what he sees and does a rough estimate to show how things improved because the orders he had given

The drainage will never be fixed without doing this, especially in BKK.  How many of these people paid local officials for fake papers though, and how will they be compensated?