Land by the Brasov-Bors highway already valued

Land alongside the Brasov-Bors motorway will become hundreds of times more valuable once the construction works start. If landowners become impossible to reason with, the authorities will enforce the Expropriation Law. This was the message from the Cluj County sub-prefect Valentin Cuibus on Tuesday. He told a news conference that it was not the land on which the motorway would be built that was important but those pieces of land on either side of the highway where motels, restaurants or filling stations were to be erected. Valentin Cuibus added that the law firm handling the purchase of the land from its owners had already appraised each plot of land and in case an agreement with the respective owners could not be reached, the tracts in question would be expropriated. “We estimate the highway will run across 588 ha in Cluj County, 470 ha of which are held by various people and 118 ha by legal entities,” the Cluj County sub-prefect explained. He also stated that the land is held by 4,200 owners, 4,160 of these being individuals, while the rest are companies. Cuibus explained the authorities were expecting the Expropriation Law to be published in the Official Gazette, after having been sanctioned by President Ion Iliescu at the end of last week, so that expropriation procedures can begin. ZF