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He said that the one-stop shop does not always respond as it should.
SANTO DOMINGO.– Regarding the complaints issued by some businessmen in the Eastern region, regarding the delays in the approval of construction permits in the State entities linked to the process, the former president of the Dominican Association of Builders and Housing Developers (Acoprovi), Fermín Acosta, suggested to the Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings (Mivhed), to put into operation urban brokerages to expedite said procedures.
“We would like to take this opportunity to suggest to the Mivhed that it start up the urban brokerages that are managed by the private sector but in compliance with the Ministry's regulations, and that would allow for the acceleration of project approvals,” the businessman said when asked by El Inmobiliario.
Acosta said that with this implementation, in addition, the need to seek out intermediary companies to process projects for developers is eliminated, which, according to him, increases costs for construction companies.
He said that “there are certainly some delays in the approval of projects, which are not necessarily the responsibility of the Mivhed, because there are other entities that are involved in the approval of projects and the one-stop shop does not always respond as it should.”
On this point he agrees with Teodoro Tejada, former president of the Dominican College of Engineers, Architects and Surveyors (Codia), who told El Inmobiliario last week that the one-stop shop is a myth in the country. “Here they have neglected to give out construction permits and this one-stop shop is a myth, it has never existed in this country,” Tejada said.
Acosta mentioned the mayors' offices, the Ministry of the Environment, and the Ministry of Tourism among the institutions involved in permits.
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“One problem that developers in the East have is that they almost always have to look for an intermediary company to manage the approval of projects,” Fermín Acosta pointed out.
He stressed that this represents “an anomaly in itself because project approvals should be made directly between the interested party and the institution that approves them and everything should work through a single window.”
Complaints
Daniel Cordero and Arnold Cordero, executives of Desarrolladora Morada, with several projects in Punta Cana, said that the construction sector in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic faces a growing challenge such as the constant delay in the issuance of permits for real estate projects.
They said the situation has caused concern among construction companies, who claim that the progress of their works has been affected by the slowness of the authorities.
They said the situation hampers progress in the area and could damage its reputation due to constant delays in project delivery.
“If we don't have a clear distribution of authorities regarding permits, it is impossible for us to develop this area. This area has lost prestige, for example, due to many late deliveries by many developers,” he said.
Daniel Cordero said that this situation is largely due to delays in the issuance of permits by various state institutions.
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Likewise, the former president of Codia, Teodoro Tejada, said that in the case of the East, what is happening is regrettable and that all permits for that area are processed through the Dominican capital, which further deepens the problem. “That is backward because the same situation as 20 years ago continues,” after saying that the dependencies of the towns what they do is capture the cases and refer them to the National District.
He said that those who stop construction permits have a strong impact on the Dominican economy, because when construction is halted, the dynamism stops, since it is the main catalyst for jobs in the country.
He added that several sectors are indirectly affected, such as the builder, the hardware store owner, the woman who sells food in the villages and all the actors involved in the process.