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New Year's Walk to the Grassroots Level | What if half of the residents raise objections to the installation of elevators in old houses?

2024-05-14

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New Year's Walk to the Grassroots Level | What if half of the residents raise objections to the installation of elevators in old houses?

At the beginning of 2022, a difficult task was encountered on the elevator installation site in a community in downtown Shanghai. The elevator was installed in half. Some residents raised objections and the parties were deadlocked.

This batch of six-story residential housing is nearly 40 years old, carved place is the only place to install the elevator. But as the scaffolding was slowly erected, the two residents in the middle of each floor had an opinion because their only lighting channel was blocked.

　To this end, the neighborhood committee organized an on-site coordination meeting, and residents' representatives, elevator companies, property representatives and legal advisers were present. At the beginning of the meeting, the issue of lighting was relentlessly thrown on the table.

　　Neither change position, but also to solve the problem of lighting. After the speeches of all parties, a plan was drawn: the transparent elevator shaft was modified to reduce the impact of the elevator on lighting.

However, there is another problem. The budget for each elevator has to be increased from 15000 yuan to 20000 yuan. The government has previously subsidized the project, and the increased money can only be absorbed by each household, and residents' representatives have to face the problem of increasing money.

The residents' representatives said that they would coordinate the matter and try to let the residents in the building share the increased expenses. In this way, everyone took a step back, the stalemate came to an end, and the coordination meeting also made progress.

This is the 208th on-site coordination meeting held by the neighborhood committee around elevator installation in the past 3 years. In the three stages of consultation in advance, coordination during the event, and post-event review, residents speak freely, ask questions, and solve problems. This form of democratic consultation at the grassroots level is called the "three meetings" system in Wuliqiao Street.

　　"Most of the problems encountered in installing elevators can be solved through the' three-meeting' system." Shanghai Huangpu District Wuliqiao Street Bridge a residential area party branch secretary Qian Shulei said.

However, the "three meetings" system is difficult to solve individual thorny problems, because some residents are simply unwilling to step into the door of the neighborhood committee.

For example, when initially consulted about the installation of elevators, several residents on the first floor firmly disagreed.

In accordance with the relevant provisions of Shanghai, the installation of the elevator before consultation, to meet the consent of 2/3 residents can be approved and planned. However, for the sake of the harmony of the community in the future, the grass-roots workers still consult with them with reason, emotion and perseverance, and strive for full consent.

"Several households on the first floor said that I was almost 70 years old. I ran to their house again and again, but I was embarrassed to disagree." You Huifen, director of the Dingda Apartment Industry Committee in a residential area of the bridge, said.

Today, in this highly aging bridge residential area, 26 of the 50 multi-storey houses that meet the conditions for adding elevators have completed or are being installed, more than half.

　　There are many old houses in Huangpu District, where Qiaoyi residential area is located, and the old renovation and comprehensive repair work are challenging. The two sessions of Huangpu District, which ended a few days ago, have laid down a five-year plan: conditional doors and buildings will basically achieve full coverage of ladders. It is believed that in this process, grass-roots democratic consultation, including the "three meetings" system, will play a key role.