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Batumi City Hall Fined A Citizen for Reconstructing Her House

October 21, 2009

Maka Malakmadze, Batumi

Family residing in Saiatnova Street N 4 in Batumi was fined with 4 000 GEL by the supervision office of the City Hall; the family reconstructed the house inside.

Two-storied damaged house is standing in Saiatnova Street N 4 in Batumi. Four families live in the house. Family of Naziko Vashalomidze-Geguchadze lives on the second floor. They were fined with 4 000 GEL for having repaired their house inside.

“The façade of the house has not been changed. We reconstructed the house inside because it was seriously damaged: the floor was so old that it was dangerous for us to walks and for our neighbors to live under it. We removed the floor and cemented it. Now we are not afraid of falling into the hole. We also painted the walls in the hall,” said the family members.

The neighbor Aleksandra Terun is grateful for the implemented activities to Vashalomidze-Geguchadze though she is worried about the fine.

“The City Hall has issued unfair resolution. This family did not request anything from them; they reconstructed the house with their own expenses. If they have complaints about it, they should have come and repaired the house themselves... We applied to them for help several times and they knew that life was impossible here; however they did not pay attention to us. How long should we have waited for them?”

One more neighbor Asmat Jincharadze pointed out that the house really needed reconstruction. “Now I can let my children to go out in the yard; in the past I was afraid something will fall from the house and injure the children. I cannot understand why the family shall be fined. The City Hall should implement its responsibilities instead fining people.”

Residents of the house state the house was particularly damaged when the Bochorishvilis built the residential house next to their house. “They used the right wall of our house as a wall of their house and built three-storied house on it; it deformed our house. The walls cracked, water leaked from the roof and even dropped on the ground floor since the floor of the second floor was seriously damaged.”

The residents applied to various structures of the local authorities but in vain. “We have been in this situation since the revolution in Adjara. We applied to every governmental institution, we write petitions every week but one official sends us to another and we get confused. Head of our district administration Kakha Kemkhadze did not even sign our petition so we could not leave it at the administration.”

Supervision office of the City Hall issued resolution N 40/09 on fining Naziko Vashalomidze on April 28, 2009. Vashalomidze was fined with 3 000 GEL for the construction without permission and with 1 000 GEL for not obeying the warrant.

Naziko Vashalomidze appealed against the resolution at Batumi City Hall. According to the resolution N 603 of the Batumi City Hall issued on August 12, Vashalomidze’s suit was not satisfied. Giorgi Rukhadze, representative of the supervision office, clarified that “House in Saiatnova Street N 4 was reconstructed. More precisely, the type of construction - that means main constructions – was changed. As a result of examination of the construction it was concluded that corresponding permit was necessary for similar activities.”

The Human Rights Center got in touch with Giorgi Rukhadze but he refused to comment on the fact saying he was on holiday.

Nowadays Naziko Vashalomidze is waiting for the trial at Batumi City Hall. She appealed against the resolution of City Hall at the court. She requests to annul the resolution N 603 of Batumi City Hall and resolution N 40/09 of the supervision office of the City Hall.   

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