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Elevators at last for some older buildings
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MORE than 20 old residential buildings in the city will have elevators installed soon thanks to streamlined approval procedures, officials said yesterday.
Elevator installations, which are widely welcomed by long suffering elderly residents, have started on five residential buildings in downtown Changning and Putuo districts.
A further 21 buildings are waiting for final approvals or for designs to be completed, said Xu Yao, a senior official with the city’s housing and urban-rural development commission.
Currently, only six old residential buildings have had elevators installed.
“The application is still too complicated. I have to get over 40 stamps on the application forms from different government bodies to get the final approval,” said Ni Yubo, a residents’ representative living in a six-story building in the Wuzhou Mansion community on Shuicheng Road in Changning District.
“Many government bodies are unfamiliar with the procedures because they are handling the application for the first time, the same as we residents,” she said. Residents in her community began applying in August 2014 after hearing the city’s first old residential building in Jing’an District had an elevator installed. Her building is one of the 21 awaiting final approval.
Despite the frustrations of residents, however, the authority has cut the 46-step process involving multiple departments, such as housing management, urban planning, greenery, and fire authorities, to 15 processes, Xu told local legislators yesterday.
The authority “will further streamline the procedures to allow residents to apply and get approval from a single government body,” he said.
A trial of the one-step operation is scheduled to begin in some districts soon.
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