Abu Dhabi: Working with its partners, Abu Dhabi City Municipality continues its campaign aimed at streamlining the occupancy of residential units as well as ensuring hygienic accommodation in the Musaffah area.
The campaign which began in June 2014, will continue until the end of the first quarter of 2015.
The campaign is aimed at ensuring health and safety standards for residents as well as a safe living environment.
Jasem Mohammad Al Hammadi, Manager of Musaffah Municipal Centre, said, “The campaign targeting congested and unhygienic residential units covers a large geographical area, aided by a well organised implementation plan that covers all areas. The campaign was intended to realise a number of objectives such as curbing congested residential accommodation, freeing the city and neighbourhoods from accommodations of company workers and bachelors, removing all types of squatter settlements at communal houses, villas, and getting rid of company accommodations in residential neighbourhoods.”
He said the municipality has monitored the phenomenon of bachelors and blue-collar workers thronging residential neighbourhoods and tried to figure our solutions since it causes social and health problems, not to mention its negative impacts on the urbanised outlook of the city. “We have prepared a work plan to curb the congested bachelors’ accommodation to be implemented tentatively in two phases until the study is completed, the results are evaluated and customer satisfaction is measured,” he added.
The first phase which began in June 2014 and finished in August 2014 saw the municipality increase inspection campaigns as well as monitor congested areas in Abu Dhabi. The second phase runs up to the end of the first quarter of 2015, and will finalise the work plan of curbing the thronging of bachelors’ accommodation by intensifying swoops to monitor overcrowded areas and violations of Law No 1/2011, and executing judicial rulings.
The areas covered by the campaign, according to Al Hammadi, include all areas under the authority and regulation of the Musaffah Municipal Centre, including residential neighbourhoods (Mohammad Bin Zayed City, Khalifa City, Al Maqta, and Abu Dhabi Gate) and Musaffah Industrial Area.
Results of the campaign so far, according to Al Hammadi, include 965 warnings served to alert violators, as well as giving violaters a grace period to rectify their violations, with 223 offences being issued against those who failed to rectify their offences in 2014.
Landlords are also encouraged to register the details of their property in the Tawtheeq system early, to avoid disruptions and delays in transactions which require tenants to submit the registered form of the tenancy contract with public authorities.
According to Al Hammadi, the Tawtheeq system ensures the rights of both landlords and tenants as well as curbing the problem of overcrowded and unhygienic accommodations that fail to meet the applicable standards.
