© Georgi Kozhukharov
– The private streets and sidewalks around Charni Vrah Blvd. are not few.
Part of the sidewalk and the street lane on Cherni Vrah Blvd. is private property and passing through them is prohibited. This indicates a road sign, placed two days ago and removed today by the Sofia Municipality. The procedure for expropriation of the property has been completed and it is now municipal property, the municipality claims. However, the owner of the sidewalk protested because the money for the expropriation was not transferred to him.
Who is the owner? According to the Sofia Municipality, this is the company “Legrano Beauty Center” EOOD. She owned the property when the widening of the roadway on Cherni Vrah Blvd. passed through it in 2016.
The area of the affected part of the private property is 57 sq.m. Compensation in the amount of BGN 17,192 has been determined for them, which is a price of BGN 301.6 / sq.m. The amount was appealed in the Administrative Court-Sofia city, the municipality announced.
The amount was transferred, but to the official account of the municipality, as the company-owner was deleted in the Commercial Register on August 16, 2016. “Thus required by the Municipal Property Act as the amount is paid to the person who proves his rights (over the property) under the general order of claims “, is the position of the municipality.
The last manager of Legrano Beauty Center EOOD is Adrian Cholakov. “Until the amount is transferred, the owner has the right to put up signs. The expropriation procedure is not complete,” he told BTV.
Despite the prohibition sign, the traffic in the disputed section of Cherni Vrah Blvd. has not been stopped. Cholakov asked the municipality to restore it within three days.
Most of the streets in this neighborhood – “Krastova Vada”, as well as in the neighboring “Vitosha-HPP Simeonovo” and “Manastirski Livadi”, pass on private properties. The Sofia municipality was supposed to expropriate part of these properties when the streets in the new neighborhoods were laid, but it saved its money. Now there are no sidewalks, and the asphalt is laid by investors in residential buildings in order to improve the area to sell the built apartments. In these cases, the municipality cannot invest funds before the street is municipal, because it has no right to finance private property.
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