“It has never been our practice to miss deadlines, much less fail to deliver information”. That is what the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, defended this Monday, after the warning he received from the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, which warned that it would impose personal fines if he continued without delivering the file of the project with which they are trying to legalize the Princesa Yaiza hotel, owned by Juan Francisco Rosa. According to Noda, the provision in which that request was made more than eight months ago is not on the City Council's record, and that is what he has now responded to the TSJC.
In the letter that the City Council sent to the Court this Monday, it maintains that there is no record of that notification and specifies that if it was transferred "through the attorney appointed at the time", the City Council terminated its services in 2014 and "this termination was duly communicated to the Dean of the Courts of Las Palmas with municipal acknowledgment of receipt of May 9, 2014".
Regarding the new requirement of the TSJC, in which it warned the mayor with fines if the City Council continued without complying with the delivery, the City Council confirms that this provision did enter the City Council on July 5 and assures that it has already delivered "three copies in digital format of the documentation, in order to get it to the parties interested in the procedure".
"Since the entry into force of the General Plan in 2014, the Yaiza City Council not only transfers to the Justice and to the parties interested in the procedures the opinions on the legalization projects of the hotels with licenses annulled by the courts located in the municipal district of Yaiza, but also sends them to the media, and attaching all the documentation, once the parties have been notified", defends the government group in a statement.
"We know of the public's interest in the situation of the hotels, so one by one we have been informing with total transparency the resolutions issued in favor of the legalization of the Costa Calero, Rubicón Palace and Natura Palace complexes and unfavorable to the Princesa Yaiza”, says the mayor. "The hotel licenses were granted when I was not even in politics, but I am aware of my current responsibility and the administration has made every technical and political effort to provide a solution, within the law, to a problem that cannot and should not last forever,” he added.
In addition, Noda has questioned the criticism launched by Ciudadanos after La Voz made public that warning from the TSJC, in which the Court described the City Council's delay in delivering that documentation as "excessive". “Since Ciudadanos has representation in the City Council with a councilor, they could well have asked me or asked the Secretariat instead of assuming that I am deliberately delaying the delivery of the required documentation. This is the rigor with which the gentlemen of Ciudadanos act”, criticized the mayor, who insists that the party had to have "asked first in the City Council and contrasted the information before turning on the loudspeaker to go out in the press”.
