Dubai strict using of balcony in some areas

Starting on March, the Dubai residents caught doing barbecues or hang washed things on their balconies will be charge of penalty worth Dh500, said by the organizational arm of Dubai Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation, called “Trakhees”.

“We will end our awareness campaign by end-February and start issuing fines to those not obeying the law from March,” a Trakhees spokesman said.

Those who lived in Palm Jumeirah, Jumeirah Lakes Towers, International City and Discovery Gardens will feel this crack down.

Trakhees started advising people last November that they should not put satellite dishes on the facades or balconies of their buildings; not to use balconies as places of storage for any purpose other than seasonal furniture pieces; not to hang sheets, clothes or curtains or rugs or mops or laundry on balconies or railings of homes and not to have barbecues in their balconies.