A CITYWIDE survey to identify and register illegal buildings started yesterday. Registrations are scheduled to be finished in three months.
The census, to be finished in one year, will collect information such as who owns the illegal building, when it was built, where it is located and what category it falls into, said officials with the city’s illegal construction inspection office.
The results of the survey will form an important basis for handling illegal buildings, the officials said.
The illegal buildings being surveyed will fall into seven categories ranging from residential, industrial and multiple-use to public facility, commercial and offices.
The city legislature promulgated a regulation on handling historical illegal buildings June 2. The regulation calls for a one-year census of illegal buildings, some of which were built during the city’s urbanization process.
Once an illegal construction is registered, it will be allowed to be used temporarily before its fate is decided, according to the regulation. The owner of an illegal building can then apply for a business license or go through lease procedures once the building has passed construction quality checks and fire control checks.
The deadline for illegal building registration is Dec. 2. Illegal constructions that have not been registered before that date will be publicized in major public places and on the official Web sites of the city government and district governments for three months.
They will be deemed abandoned property and taken over temporarily by subdistrict offices before being demolished or confiscated after the census is completed.
(SD News)