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The appeal to stop further devastation of the coastline and sanction illegal construction, which was recently sent to the competent institutions by the municipality of Ližnjan, has borne fruit, writes Glas Istre.
For days, construction inspectors "combed" several of the most endangered locations in the municipality, which resulted in the sealing of dozens of illegal buildings with the prominent sign "Closed construction site" and a ban on the continuation of construction under the threat of criminal prosecution.
In the settlement paddle There is almost no building that does not have a yellow sign. The place is full of garages converted into studio apartments and single-storey buildings 'scraped' into a few square meters, but there are also multi-storey buildings with landscaped surroundings of the kind found in modern urban settlements.
This area, with around 60 illegally built structures, lives almost exclusively in the summer months.
Owners mostly foreigners
Large financial resources invested in buildings without the necessary documentation indicate the fact that the owners of these 'cottages by the sea' were convinced that they were investing in an area where the laws and rules that apply in their countries do not apply. Investors are almost exclusively foreign citizens, he reports Glas Istre.
Information has arrived from the State Inspectorate that construction inspectors will not remain confined to the Ližnjan area, but will expand their inspections to certain zones in the neighboring municipality. Medulin and to the area Vodnjana.
Mayor of the Municipality of Ližnjan, Marko Ravnic, is satisfied that the call for an immediate reaction - sent by the municipal authorities together with the representatives of all political parties in the council - bore fruit.
Namely, the appeal was sent to the address of three ministries, followed by an urgent and effective reaction of the State Inspectorate. The construction inspection also "combed" other locations, such as the area of Ušić's Dvori, and from the Šišan settlement towards the sea.
Agricultural land on Krk
Just as we experienced a sudden increase in demand and sales of apartments and houses on the Adriatic after entering Schengen, the same could soon happen with agricultural land, given that Moratorium expired on July 1st for foreigners and now they too can freely buy land intended for agricultural production.
In the Picik area on Krk, near the Valbiska ferry port, there are numerous caravans, containers, small prefabricated houses, terraces and planted Mediterranean plants.
All of this was done on agricultural land and it is all illegal, it reports. HRTTherefore, island leaders are rightly concerned as free summer vacations on agricultural land are booming.
There are more and more locals and foreigners who are buying smaller or larger plots of agricultural land at favorable prices in order to spend their summer holidays there.
In order to solve this problem, after the Municipality of Malinska, the City of Krk also adopted a decision prohibits the placement of any objects on agricultural land - from tents to mobile homes.
Will the penalties be effective?
Mayor of the Municipality of Malinska, Anton Kraljic, asks whether we want to have favelas next to construction areas?
The Mayor of the City of Krk - the longest-serving mayor in Croatia - Darijo Vasilićhe told HRT that it is an illegal form of tourism and pointed out that all the effort of a well-thought-out tourism strategy can go down the drain if this problem is not solved.
"This is really not in our interest on the island of Krk and we insist that the building inspection, within its scope of work, and on the other hand the tourist inspection and our municipal police, do a certain part of the work.", Vasilić appeals.
Penalties are prescribed by the misdemeanor law, and local communities can charge a maximum of 150 euros for natural persons to 1500 for legal entities.
Whether the fines will be effective and whether all these agricultural plot owners will remove their illegal structures will be seen at the beginning of the next pre-season.
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Sources: Glas Istre, HRT
