Sofia citizens – on bike
15.10.2007
Dikov pledged yet another pledge– Sofia will enjoy a longer metro line than originally planned.Sofia's centre has gone into a panic over the recent forbid on the construction of new residential units that didn’t have adequate parking for their future inhabitants, Petar Dikov, Sofia's chief architect announced.
Some companies tried to bypass the regulation by lifting edifices with underground two- or three-level parking lots that would adjoin old buildings in the centre. But this try to observe the legal requirement to secure one or two parking places per flat resulted in cracked fronts and weakened the foundations of neighbouring houses.
The municipality will start hiring companies to repair the facades of the old buildings in return for receiving advertising space on the walls. There are already about 20 buildings that have been mended as part of this arrangement, Dikov announced.
The municipality will start developing some of the high-rise building projects on its own and will later give them to construction companies. It is one of the ways to act against the speculation with plots' prices by buying a terrain, declaring one's intention to construct a skyscraper there, thus increasing the cost of the land, and selling the plot afterwards at a higher price.