Officials expressed
dismay over shipping items heavier than two tons to the island, which
regulations prohibit.
A Pattaya City Council committee told Marine
Department and Koh Larn administrative officials to better regulate
their respective jurisdictions as both areas were becoming the subject
of numerous complaints.
City Council member Sanit Boonmachai called out
officials on the island and at Bali Hai Pier for failing to crack down
on illegal building, transportation-regulation breaches, parking
problems, street vendors and other assorted complaints by tourists and
residents.
On Koh Larn, city council members wrung their hands
over complaints about the building of hotels and resorts months after
officials supposedly had agreed to resolve such issues. They also
expressed dismay over shipping items heavier than two tons to the
island, which regulations prohibit.
The politicians also decried tourists being
inconvenienced by street vendors and about “disorderly’ berthing of
boats at Bali Hai Pier. Marine Department Director Rewat Potrieng
assured the council members his staff had repeatedly warned boat owners
about the need to follow the rules, but, alas, the rules still were not
being followed.
Rewat took the opportunity to complain about the
scarcity of parking at Bali Hai and the committee agreed to look into
it.
Having agreed the city still had many unresolved
issues, the committee unanimously dispatched Koh Larn and Marine
Department officials to be more vigilant and adjourned in confidence
something would be done.
