Dubai: Authorities began a fresh crackdown on crowding in apartments in Dubai’s International City on Monday.
Officials from Trakhees, the regulatory agency for freehold properties and businesses in special development zones, have started door-to-door inspections at the residential districts of Nakheel’s property.
According to Trakhees, it is a routine inspection to curb the menace of overcrowding in the community with 22,000 residences, including studios and one-bedroom apartments.
As per the rules of the Community and Compliance Department at Trakhees, the maximum limit for occupants is three people to a studio, and five in a one-bedroom apartment.
However, there have been several complaints about the high number of occupants in various clusters in International City, and Trakhees had issued fines against the violators in the previous years.
Residents have repeatedly complained about parking woes and safety concerns due to overcrowding in the community.
Dubai Civil Defence officials had also raised concerns about the fire hazard in cramped buildings in the community after two people jumped to their deaths to escape a fire in a one-bedroom flat in International City that they shared with another 20 people in September 2015.
Earlier in 2012, a landlord in International City was reportedly fined Dh100,000 after 20 people were found living in a one-bedroom apartment.
