The Committee for Spatial Planning, Communal-Housing Affairs and Traffic filed a criminal complaint with the Special State Prosecutor's Office (SDT) against the owner and responsible persons in the company "Bjelasica Invest", the previous chief city architect, as well as the designer, auditor, contractor, supervisory authority, inspectors and other unidentified persons who were involved in the design and construction of the facility on Mirka Vešovića Street.
On that street, on cadastral plot 317/3 in the center of Kolašin, the construction of a hotel based on the condo business model, whose investor is “Bjelasica Invest”, is well underway. As stated in the criminal complaint, which “Vijesti” had access to, “the project shows that the basement floor is planned to have larger dimensions than those allowed by the UTU and DUP, that is, the basement floor extends beyond the construction line”, which, according to the committee, is “strictly prohibited by the law on the construction of buildings”.
"The plan (DUP) allows garages (as basement floors) to have larger areas, but only when they are completely underground. This is a sloping terrain, so the garage is completely above ground (on the upper side it is 1,2 meters above ground, and on the lower side about 3 meters), which is why it is considered a basement, not a cellar. The project, and on site, shows that in addition to the garage, the investor also built an external staircase to the ground floor, which is also above ground, and which extends beyond the construction line, to the edge of Mirka Vešovića Street 1. Such a staircase alone endangers the safety of drivers, not to mention pedestrians who no longer have a sidewalk," the criminal complaint states.
They also claim that the street is an extension of the stairs, so "it is clear that the safety of drivers is not guaranteed."
The signatories of the criminal complaint say that "if such illegal construction remains, it will result in either the closure of the street or the demolition of the staircase."
They also explain that "the investor has gone outside the construction line with the garages on two sides, the eastern one, towards Mirka Vešovića 1 Street, and the northern one, towards the local street that further leads to the Distribution building and the residential building located across from the Bjanka Hotel."
"According to the DUP, the distance between buildings and neighboring plots must be at least two meters, which the investor did not comply with. This jeopardized the safety of drivers and pedestrians. By building stairs to the street, and on the other side at less than one meter, it is now impossible to build pedestrian paths, so pedestrian movement is absolutely unsafe because they have to move along the street. An additional danger is the height of the building and the potential for snow to fall from the roof, which also makes the building dangerous for other people," the criminal complaint states.
They state that "the permit for the construction of external staircases outside the building line is scandalous, because if the investor built the surface of the building up to the line, he had to build the staircase inside, and not build it directly next to the street."
They claim that "through inaction or unprofessional, and thus illegal, action, the chief city architect did not return the project for re-drafting, but rather approved the construction of garages and staircases outside the construction line." By doing so, the Board explains, he allowed the building to have larger dimensions, to go outside the construction line, and thus to have a greater height than permitted.
The criminal complaint was signed by Miličko Bulatović (PES), Miodrag Mijo Vlahović (GI URA) i Bojan Zekovic (The Movement Together We Build Kolašin, consisting of DPS, SDP, SD and non-party figures), as well as the President of the Municipal Assembly Vasilije Bulatović (For the future of Kolašin). The application was not signed by the remaining two members of the Committee, Andrijana Jelić (Democrats) and Duško Šćepanović (The Together We Build Kolašin Movement).
The Committee says they have not yet received a response from the Urban Planning and Construction Inspection, whose supervision of the facility they requested at the end of last year. They remind that Damir Davidovic co-owner of a company that invests in condo hotels and who has since been appointed State Secretary at the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property.
The signatories of the criminal complaint say that “if such illegal construction continues, it will result in either the closure of the street or the demolition of the staircase.” They also explain that “the investor has gone outside the construction line with the garages on two sides, the eastern one, towards Mirka Vešovića 1 Street, and the northern one, towards the local street that further leads to the Distribution building and the residential building located across from the Bjanka Hotel.”
Mirka Vešovića 1 Street will not be reconstructed for now.
According to the current DUP “Centar”, prepared 15 years ago, Mirka Vešovića 1 Street is planned as a pedestrian zone. Preparatory procedures for the construction of a condo hotel began after that. The municipality obviously has other intentions with that road. The reconstruction was planned in last year’s Spatial Planning Program and Urban Sanitation Program, but the works were abandoned.
According to what the local administration unofficially told "Vijesti" yesterday, the street, which is now a one-way street, will not be reconstructed "according to the current project." Also, the decision on traffic regulation does not stipulate that the street is a pedestrian zone.
"The street will not be reconstructed until the competent inspectorates determine the factual situation around the staircase on the building in that road. Otherwise, the current project envisaged that the sidewalk next to the condo hotel would be 3,90 m wide, and the roadway three meters wide. The sidewalk next to the building of the local tourist organization (TO) is planned to be 3,5 meters wide, and the sidewalk on the other side two meters wide. Among other things, due to such a design solution, reconstruction has been abandoned for the time being," the Municipality told "Vijesti".
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