The annexes in the municipality of Chisinau will be built only vertically and only in the process of complete reconstruction of the building. The proposal was made by Mayor Dorn Chirtoaca, who insisted that the common standards should be respected all over the city. The applications for urbanism certificates submitted until now, which do not meet these provisions, may be canceled, IPN reports.

The mayor also proposed demolishing the annexes built randomly, when the leases on the plots on which they were erected expire.  

Deputy mayor Nistor Grozavu said the annexes appeared out of a ‘Soviet blunder’, when no balconies were built on the first floor as it was considered that this way the thieves will be unable to climb up. In 1992-1998, many annexes were constructed illegally, without respecting certain standards.

“In 2008, we tried to regulate the construction of five-story buildings. A limit should be set for every building, by strictly deciding the purpose of the annexed. Many of the rooms on the fist floor of buildings are transformed into retail outlets,” said the deputy mayor.

Radu Blaj, acting head of the Architecture, Urbanism and Land Relations Division, said that an order of the previous Construction Ministry allows building annexes on top of stories or horizontally, along the entire first floor. Under the general urbanism plan, the apartment buildings without a balcony can construct an annex with the consent of the Chisinau Municipal Council, which allocates plots for constructions.