萬國法律事務所

An Internal conference of Taipei City Hall passed a draft Taipei Cityscape Self-governing Ordinance (“Draft”), which provides that the owner of facilities, such as steel windows or air-conditioners, will be imposed on a fine due to the destruction of cityscape. Under this Draft, Taipei City Hall also proposed to charge Approval Fee or Cityscape Impact Fee on the over-sized advertisements.

Taipei Mayor Hau, Lung-bin said that in order to build a clean cityscape and force Taipei city to reborn, before central government promulgates Landscape Law, Taipei City prescribed its self-governing ordinance to manage Taipei City’s cityscape.

According to the official of Taipei City Hall, Taipei City Hall will charge Approval Fee on the over-sized posts, advertisements or electronic display monitors which heights are over 6 meters set up or attached to the top of buildings, wholesales stores, and Cityscape Impact Fee on the aforementioned objects in the subsequent years in the future. If the Draft takes effective, advertisements posted on the Sky Screen of Taipei Arena and Taipei 101 Building will be subject to these fees.

Although the legislative intention is good, some Taipei City Councils criticized the Draft because the judgment of good or bad landscape will lie on personal preference and the charge standard is hard to prescribe.