Complaints about municipality expansion of streets in Kobani
Kobani – North-Press
Fattah Issa – Jihad Nabo
Some residents in Kobani northern Syria are complaining the city council’s decision of expanding the streets of the city, saying that the expansion has destroyed parts of their houses, especially in the neighborhood of “Martyr Peyman” near Al-Muhdatha school.
Muhammad Hassan 40 years-old, one of many people affected by the decision, told North-Press that the planned expansion would destroy big parts of his house., Hassan added that the municipality doesn’t have the right to acquire civilian’s houses at the expense of aesthetics, pointing out that he has been living in this house since the year of 1983, and that there was no scheme of any expansions mentioned.
Hassan, who only possess this house for his five-membered family, called for the cancellation of the expansion decision, or a compensation to those whose houses were affected by this decision, so they can build another house for themselves.
While, the head of the Technical Office in the municipality of Kobani, Hussein Al-Satouf said that the buildings were built by people, thus, violating the organizational chart of the city, pointing out that the organizational chart dates back to the year of 2010, he also stressed that the buildings were destroyed by the war will be granted special licenses according to the new organizational chart, noting that some of the residents have built their houses in the streets beyond the executive plan.
Al-Satouf pointed out that the issue of compensating the affected people is discussed at the regular meeting of the Executive Council of the People’s Municipality in Kobani.
Last year, the city council has compensated some residents of the neighborhood of “Botan Gharbi” within the city, after an expansion project with a width of 24m, of a street in the neighborhood, at the expense of lands of people in the neighborhood.