Thimphu Thromde’s regulation mandating house owners to keep enough residential parking for their tenants is yet to gain momentum.
The regulation, which was initiated last year, requires people to park their vehicles in their residential parking or proper designated areas.
However, residents will have to pay fees if they park in the designated parking.
The thromde says there have been lapses in approving drawings for the parking.
For instance, a house owner keeps ten parking spaces in the drawing. But after the approval of the drawing, they reduce it to five.
The thromde is now planning to correct this lapse and monitor it strictly through the issuance of occupancy certificate, which has to be renewed annually.
“If the owner doesn’t have enough parking for tenants, we won’t approve it, and if the owner has been without occupancy certificate for more than six months, it would result in the disconnection of electricity and water supply,” Kinlay Dorjee, the Thimphu Thrompon, said.
He said a strict monitoring system would be put in place from this September.
The lack of residential parking leads to illegal roadside parking, which has been prohibited since May last year.
The Thrompon said although traffic police are monitoring the core town area, it is difficult to monitor the whole thromde area due to manpower shortage.
The initial plan to lock wheels to monitor roadside parking, too, did not work.
“The cars cannot move if we lock-up their wheels. However, we could not use the wheel locks due to different sizes of the wheels.”
However, thromde says it is planning to purchase correct wheel locks if other solutions and measures fail to deter roadside parking.
