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local Friday 17 March 2023

Bureau of City Inspector gives homeowner 24 hours to reopen

pathway to the public beach

As it was publicized in our borhood have found this tion has already happened When the BCI checked in contacting them immedi-
sister-paper Bon Dia Aruba private property sign on repeatedly all across the on the house, they noticed ately to remove these.”
on March 11th, there were the premise. This is unac- island. that the owner had indeed
concerns from social me- ceptable,” a social media cleaned the premise and No matter how close to
dia users in regards to a user stated when he shared On Wednesday, the Bureau that the sign was removed. the beach you reside, no
‘private property’ sign put in a picture of the sign in front of City Inspector informed Additionally, they have no- homeowner, hotel or ac-
front of a pathway toward a of the beach. through a press release ticed that other homeown- commodation is allowed to
public beach in Savaneta. that on March 9th, there ers along the coast have privatize and/or block any
The owner of the house had According to him, this con- was a complain where also put up fences blocking part of Aruba’s beaches or
placed the sign to ward off cerns the beach right near a neighbor in Savaneta the beach, so they will be water. q
the public from the beach what was then the Brisas called to inform that there
behind their home, with del Mar Restaurant. are piles of trash along the
the idea of claiming this as As mentioned already, street and that the path-
their own territory. the law stipulates that all way towards the beach
beaches on Aruba are had been closed off with
It is important to remark public. It specifically states tree branches.
that all beaches on Aruba that “in this ordinance and
are public by law. This law the dispositions based on They then deployed a
is called the ‘Landsveror- this, it is understood that team on the site to speak
dening openbare wateren public water is water that is with the homeowner. “The
en stranden’ (National or- accessible for all, limited or inspectors explained that
dinance for public waters not, in virtue of public rights the homeowner was not al-
and beaches). norms.” lowed to close off the path-
way, because this is and
“This is a part of the beach The user’s post about this sit- will stay open to the public.
stretching along the coasts uation received a wave of They had given the owner
of Savaneta, where es- comments from the com- 24 hours to remove all trash
pecially the elderly like to munity, who all expressed around the premise and to
swim. To our surprise, sev- their frustration and disap- open the pathway.
eral people from the neigh- proval. This type of situa-