Ajman’s nod to private car parks
ajman — The Ajman Municipality will start granting permission to owners of vacant sandy plots to turn them into private parking lots. The decision has been taken following a large number of parking-related complaints in various parts of Ajman city.
Dr Mohammed Bin Omair, executive director of infrastructure development sector at the Ajman Municipality, said that the move is an effort to reduce congestion on the main streets of the emirate. Bin Omair said the municipality will initially issue permissions to build private parking lots in places including Rumaila, Al Nakhla, Lwaira, Naimiya and Rashidiya, as they are the most important areas and are witnessing construction and population boom.
The municipality will communicate directly with the owners of
We hope the municipality will introduce unified fees, which will be affordable to all tenants.” Mohamed Allam, resident
the lands and brief them on how to use their vacant lands to establish the private parking business.
Dr Bin Omair said the municipality pays great attention to finding realistic solutions to any situation that affects the residents in the emirate. It seeks to receive suggestions of employees and customers as well as residents and visitors, he added.
Bin Omair said that the municipality is also developing a plan that will be implemented in several phases to facilitate organised parking across the emirate. It will give landlords the opportunity to invest in their lands to develop multistorey parking lots on them.
Residents said that dearth of parking space in residential areas is posing a big problem. There is a real estate boom, which has left no space for parking. They feel that private parking might solve the issue, but it will also add up to their expenses. Mohamed Allam, a resident of Al Nuaimiya, said that residents now park their cars in the sandy areas in the emirate for free. But when these get converted into private paid parking zones, they will have to shell out money. “We hope the municipality will introduce unified fees, which will be affordable to all tenants.”
M Gopal, a resident of Al Zahra area, said that residents living in old buildings park their vehicles on vacant plots of land near their apartments. If these lands are turned into private paid parking lots and are not affordable, it will affect their budget, he added.
Mohra Al Shaikh, another resident, said that the parking problem is going from bad to worse due to growing number of cars. He pointed out that paid private parking business will only benefit the land owners and those who can afford to use it. Not every resident can pay monthly to preserve space in these private parking lots, he pointed out.