Khaberni - The head of the Fuhais Municipal Committee, Engineer Imad Al-Hayari, announced the decision of the municipal committee, as the local committee for regulation, number (647/2025) dated (24/11/2025), following the review of the documents received from the cement factory company, book number 1/4/M/A/142 (issued on 8/9/2022) and book number 1/4/M/A/111 received on 29/6/2025.
The decision of the Fuhais Municipal Committee, acting as the local committee for regulation, came after deliberation and examining all documents, including the agreement concluded in 2016 and previous meeting records between the municipality and company representatives, factoring in the local community's compatibility and the opinions of regulatory and technical specialists, considering the unique nature of the area and required measures to ensure the continuity of municipal work in land regulation; as well as benefiting from the opinion of the advisory committee formed by the municipality and looking into public opinion, with regard given to the need for precise regulatory procedures covering all the land.
For the public good and in an effort by the municipality to preserve the interests of all parties, based on article 34 of the Cities, Villages and Buildings Regulation Law No. 79 of 1966 and its amendments, the following has been decided:
First: Consider the area located within basins 11 Al-Rahwa, 17 Al-Deir, 18 Um Al-Arayis, 19 Abiyya, referred to in the attached decision plan which is an integral part of the decision, as a regulated area subjected to temporary oversight until the completion of a regulatory plan for all lands within the boundaries of Fuhais Municipality as indicated in the attached plan.
Second: No license for any construction in the sense intended under the text of article 34/4 of the Cities, Villages and Buildings Regulation Law, which includes the following, will be granted: Until the completion of a regulatory plan for the lands and the construction of any building or modification therein, or its expansion, change, demolition, and the use of the buildings and land for purposes other than those permitted, whether by specification or because the building or land is situated in a special area as per a determined reconstruction plan involving that building or land and under any issued license in respect to that building or land and also includes changing the existing use of the building or land and any activities listed under the aforementioned article.
Third: Due to the special nature of the area and its complicated topography requiring extensive infrastructure works, additional engineering and geological treatments, and the resulting clear increase in regulatory costs, the Engineering Services Department has been tasked to study the regulatory returns of the land parcels covering all expenses spent or to be incurred in preparing, implementing, and monitoring the regulatory and/or construction plans and applying the provisions of the law, especially concerning works and subsequent matters, considering all necessary principles, standards, and considerations to achieve administrative justice and protect public funds in accordance with the expected costs of constructing or improving roads including pedestrian paths, sidewalks and their expansion and improvement, and related activities like reconstructing sidewalks, tree planting, street lighting, roadside benches, and other matters for improving and beautifying the cities and acquiring lands and properties, usufruct and servitudes in lands and properties, planning and constructing recreational spots, sports fields, squares, children's playgrounds, designing and constructing and planting public gardens and maintaining them, taking measures to prevent soil erosion near built-up areas and preserving, planting, and maintaining natural and reserved areas and demolishing and reconstructing and replanning designated construction areas deemed unfit or unsuitable for dwelling or any other use according to the regulatory and/or reconstruction plans and demolishing and rebuilding any construction which includes fences, sewage systems, water network, railway lines, electricity and telephone lines, establishing a sewage network, waste disposal, sanitary prevention and other health issues, and any other matter provided for in the regulation and/or the construction plan and any other matter deemed by the regulation committee to improve the neighborhood and the general living conditions of the area or the citizens.
Fourth: Provisions of article 48 of the Cities, Villages and Buildings Regulation Law of 1966 apply to the land parcels mentioned if it is proven that building on them is not possible.
Fifth: Building and development may be banned in part or all of the land parcels under discussion in case there are significant rock formations or steep slopes, based on article 63 of the Cities, Villages and Buildings Regulation Law of 1966 and/or its equivalent in the Buildings and Cities Regulation System of 2022.
Sixth: The owners of the parcels are obliged to pay the costs of constructing the road adjacent to the parcel upon its construction according to the construction costs, in addition to their commitment to constructing the necessary retaining walls for opening the streets at their own expense, according to the provisions of articles number 3 and number 16 from the Roads and Sidewalks System within the municipality boundaries of 2016.
Following the above, the Fuhais Municipal Committee invited all stakeholders to implement what has been mentioned, considering it as an effective administrative decision with immediate and direct effect as of the date 24/11/2025, and to elevate the decision to the district committee to complete the procedures.
