Alternativa invites the mayor to modify the General Plan of 91 to carry out works such as the Congress Palace

Its spokesperson in the Arrecife City Council says that María Isabel Déniz cannot hide behind the non-approval of the current document to avoid carrying out the municipality's major projects.

September 6 2005 (23:05 WEST)

Citizen Alternative (AC-25M) invites the mayor of Arrecife, María Isabel Déniz, to modify the General Plan of 1991 to carry out projects such as the university campus or the Congress Palace, offering its support if it is true that she has the necessary money and the desire to do so. This was stated this Tuesday by its municipal spokesperson, Andrés Barreto, who said he did not understand the statements made the previous day by the head of the capital Corporation about the urgency of definitively approving the General Plan to execute this type of action.

Before the plenary session was held in which she complained so much about the economic situation of the institution, Barreto said he felt "perplexed" by the latest actions that the capital Consistory is taking, especially by calling extraordinary sessions, with the expense that this entails, when there is nothing to debate. In any case, he did take advantage of his intervention in the radio program Buenos Días de Radio Lanzarote to warn that the ordinary plenary session in September will have "mojo con morena" (a Canarian sauce) from Alternativa.

After commenting on the details of the cleaning issue that he later presented during the plenary session (an issue that this newspaper deals with in its edition today), he said that it is time to stop "falsifying the reality" of the capital of the Island. His accusation has to do with the mayor's intervention in the same program, where she said that the fact that the General Plan had not been approved was blocking numerous issues. Specifically, what María Isabel Déniz said was that issues such as the Islote del Francés are linked to the approval of the General Plan, hence she insisted that the agreement that currently exists with the owners is not closed and will only be closed when the document is taken to plenary."Everything will therefore be approved the day we can take the final approval of the General Plan to plenary," she remarked. In addition, the mayor lamented that a City Council like that of Tías has already planned the transfer of a plot to put a congress palace next to the golf course, not because the Corporation presided over by the socialist José Juan Cruz Saavedra has done so, but because Arrecife is losing as many opportunities as it has lost. Thus, the representative of the municipal opposition pointed out that "the luck we have in this municipality is that nobody believes this type of nonsense". "If the mayor has the university campus and the auditorium, nobody prohibits her from modifying the General Plan of 91 to carry out the work. In the current legislature, she has already made many modifications to that same Plan, why can't she make another modification now to adapt these two major issues?", he asked.

Similarly, he said that it is false that the Tías City Council has also had to wait for the final approval of its General Plan to cede the land for a congress palace that would be attached to the golf course. "They could also have made specific modifications to their Plan whenever they wanted, because general plans are subject to revision whenever they want to do so," he reiterated. "Wasn't the Plan revised to cede a plot for the construction of a school in Argana Alta, was there any problem?", he asked, answering affirmatively to this question, again pointing out that the mayor herself has already made six or seven modifications to the same document without anything happening.

The spokesperson for Alternativa believes that Déniz's intention has been none other than to confuse the population, when she knows perfectly well that "any type of work of these characteristics can be done using the Plan of 91".

On the other hand, he expressed his surprise that everything related to building permits is being taken to the letter, since he has data that shows that at this moment there are more than one hundred constructions being carried out in Arrecife. His party, in fact, has already carried out a work on this issue that they will present soon. "Between earth movements, between constructions of all kinds, we have more than one hundred buildings," he commented, asking again "what General Plan are we talking about when these constructions may already include more than 5,000 new homes". "It is astonishing the ease with which they try to confuse others due to the impotence of not having done what should have been done a long time ago," he stressed.

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