Parking lot  death sparks call for retroactive  security fixes

  Following the death of a young woman lawyer when her car plunged from the parking lot of an apartment building The Citizen Conscience Foundation presented a bill to the National Assembly to establish the mandatory retroactivity in the regulations to guarantee citizen security in the parking lots of PH buildings.

The initiative comes after an accident on  Friday, May 15, when her vehicle fell from the second floor of the parking lot in the Bay View building, near Balboa Avenue.

The foundation recalled a similar event registered on Wednesday, March 28, 2018, where three people died after a vehicle fell from the fourth floor parking lot of PH Breeze in Costa del Este.

The foundation emphasized that on Monday, January 21, 2019, as a result of the spectacular accident in 2018, the Ministry of Housing and Land Management (MIVIOT), issued a resolution which it resolved that Where parking lots are built-in all buildings nationwide, a steel or concrete safety barrier must be constructed, which must contain anchors capable of transferring a load of up to 6,000 pounds to the rest of the structure.

However, , it would apply only to those buildings that to date did not have an occupancy permit, so all the buildings already delivered would not fall under the regulation.

The  proposed legislative initiative would make the regulations that have to do with citizen security in these buildings retroactive and determine a period of 12 months for them to adapt their structural designs and physically execute the adjustments. according to the corresponding standard.