Hi Ashley,
Keeping my word about sending you my input before this day, Sunday 8th March 2009 is over. My thoughts, for what they are worth, are as follows: > 1) How would u want saligao village to be recognised? > > A - whats urs? initial inputs suggest that ALL wnat saligao to be > recognised as "a heritage village" do u agree? disagree? why? pls reply > to list with comments Dont want to go into the widening of roads para & future traffic flow as Kevin put it. Not sure of my ground there. But I am in agreement with Merwyn, & to a certain extent, Kevin's mail. What more recognition does Saligao need, it has been recognised by all from before our time, & in the 1970's it was one of the most "forward" & "recognised" villages in Bardez alongwith Aldona. But the mess started thereafter...I was still around in the early 1980's ..so know that for sure. As for calling Saligao or making it a "heritage village" I am NOT for it at all. Each is entitled to his/her opinion I guess. Have answered this in my previous mail today, just repeating here: What heritage? Saligao already has its own heritage...we just got to recognise the same & I did that long ago. Once something is named "heritage" or logged as that, then we wont have a say in anything, (part of Kevin's statement "major restrictions on development") we will have to get permission of some "Body" or the other (Government) & one knows exactly how that will work!..... One gets "permission" easily through certain channels for illegal construction etc. (most often than not construction goes on without permission) but when it comes to the crunch & for the good of Saligao, rest assured your "permission" files will be sat upon for quite a while, if not for years or until doomsday! & I am not being a pessimist here. Our complaint on stolen item with the police station must be still pending 40 years since (it is probably a dead file or perhaps joined the Fire Heap alongwith all other complaints) & the stolen item was not obtained as we were asked to get the culprit to the police station - huh! Short of catching him by the scruff of his neck or by the lobe of his ear & walking to the Station, (we didnt have a car), dad didnt see any reason for following up on the complaint. So Ashley, choose which words or sentence you would like to include in your file of "input" & add to the short list. If you summarise the input given by Merwyn, Kevin & myself, you have the same thoughts. It is either a case of great minds think alike, or fools seldom differ (sorry guys, sometimes one has to admit one's foolishness - let's see how we stand after the 300+ on SaligaoNet give their input) v/s. the rest of the Saliganvkars. Cant recall if Dilip answered this first question but I recall his answer to the second question. So dont know if I should include him too as we (yeh I have joined my lot with yours - ha ha!) seem to have the same thoughts on the second question too. > 2) the suggested FAR for the village is 60 FAR with a ground plus 2 as > maximum. meaning of a plot of 1000sq meters. the person will be allowed > to build on 200sq meters with 2 floors on top each of 200 sq meters to > make a total of 600 sq meters total habitable. > > A - here there are major disagreements.. with almost ALL except the > builder lobby seeming to suggest that to retain the heritage structure > of the village, ONLY a ground plus one opion should be allowed. menaing > that of the same eg above.. the person will build an area of 300 sq > meters and have an additional 300 sq meters on the first floor. I agree with Dilip & Kevin. Have always preferred our villa type houses (ground floor only) but the roofs are so high that one could easily fit in one floor in between. Anything built hereafter should be in line with the surrounding villas or buildings (definitely not ground floor plus 2 floors) - ground floor plus first floor which fits in & differentiates Saligao as a village from any other city with the high rise buildings. Who needs people peeking into my bedroom from the height of their second floor bedroom? & I doubt the present neighbours would welcome such "high rise" neighbours...huh! I have always disliked being looked down upon, whether they are people or these tall buildings. > > in BOTH cases it has to be noted that the peron STILL gets his 600 sq > meters habitable area.. > > one argument for the ground plus 2 is that it is cheaper to build a > ground plus two as against a ground plus one. i am personally of the > opinion that this is negligible or non existent.. Cheaper? Huh! probably the contractors & others involved trying to get their bucks in one go & currying favours or being curried favours accordingly! Hope we can stick to the ground floor plus one floor above & I hope others will see the light sooner rather than later. Oh yeh! these 2-3 storey buildings do block out our natural light dont they? Take care of yourselves, SaligaoNetters. Do help Ashley get the input/inputs - it/they will benefit our village in the final instance. By the way, where is the famous M&M - tut, tut! you are lagging behind? Your weekend is almost at an end. My new weekend will start in one hour's time - we have a holiday tomorrow - great! So I worked one day - Ashley, Rico - you both must admit I really worked today - check the number of postings I made on SaligaoNet on 8th March 2009! Regards Bye Ashley - No hard feelings, no chords touched, no frustrations, no irritation, & no personal accusations....& if there were, all accepted with a pinch of salt....or touch of Salmona Spring water. Ciao Annette PS: Heard something about Bionic Eye - Is it a Saliganvkar in the news? - some relative of Lorna or Dilip? Englighten us ok? _________________________________________________________________ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ This message comes via the Google Groups "Saligao-Net" group. 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