More than two months after La Voz de Lanzarote published that the Yaiza City Council had approved in a plenary session at the end of July the transfer of green land to a hotel company to build "a small theme park" in Playa Blanca, Coalición Canaria has offered a press conference in which it has reported that it will present this Tuesday a motion to demand the rectification in plenary session of this agreement.
The spokesperson for the nationalist formation in the southern Consistory, Leonardo Rodríguez, has insisted that the approval of this project in an extraordinary and urgent plenary session may entail "criminal responsibilities", because "it is not endorsed by a legal report". In addition, he will transfer all this information to the Prosecutor's Office, according to Rodríguez in a press conference, in which he was accompanied by other CC councilors in Yaiza. "There are many rumors in the town, but it is not up to us to investigate possible favors," he said.
It should be remembered that the opposition already denounced, when asked by La Voz, that this plenary session had been convened "the night before" and no data or documentation had been provided, despite which the government group gave the green light to this initiative. Specifically, the project presented by the Paradise Island apart-hotel, which for years has occupied a plot of the Yaiza City Council with private sports courts and a mini-golf course, aims to build a "theme park", which includes an aquapark. To this end, the hotel company is asking the Consistory to cede more public land.
This plot, which has been requested by the HL hotel chain, is located on plot 61 of the Montaña Roja Urbanization. Coalición Canaria voted against the urgency of this plenary session and abstained on all the points on the agenda, because it was convened on "July 27 at night and held the next day at 9:00 in the morning". "The request was registered by Isla Paraíso on July 27 at 10:00 a.m. And the next day it was taken to plenary and the report had already been issued by a municipal technician," Rodríguez criticized. "It gives us something to suspect," he insisted.
"Without reports"
But, above all, Coalición Canaria has denounced that this agreement "is not endorsed by a legal report". In this sense, Leonardo Rodríguez has pointed out that despite the fact that the Consistory has a legal cabinet, "there is no report that grants legality to the agreement adopted in plenary session". "It would be important to know if the City Council can cede a green area for use without being in the Partial Plan, which has not even been received by the municipal institution," he said.
According to Rodríguez, there is no "report from the City Council secretary" that guarantees what steps to follow in this land transfer procedure, nor "technical report" that justifies the "general interest" of building this recreational and sports area outdoors in Playa Blanca.
Thus, the only report that appears in this administrative procedure is a study by the municipal architect, "in which she considers the viability of the project in comparison with the ordinance of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan". Despite this, this document does not mention "other municipal or island regulations". This report, according to the CC spokesperson at the time, "it is not known whether it is favorable or not", because it only reflects municipal ordinances.
"Why is this public transfer approved without the necessary reports? Why is the plenary session convened 12 hours in advance so that we cannot consult documents? Why is it approved at the end of July, before the non-working month of August begins? Why are other plenary sessions reported to the media and this one was not reported with the documentation? Why was the approval of that point hidden? What interests are behind all this?", the CC spokesperson in Yaiza has asked.
Rodríguez does not even know if the residents will be compensated for this transfer of public land to a private company. Thus, the CC spokesperson in Yaiza does not know if this "theme park" will be public or not. "Residents need to know what they will gain by giving away land to a hotel complex," he said.
Gladys Acuña's complaint
Leonardo Rodríguez cannot explain how it is possible that the Yaiza City Council approved this initiative without "the corresponding reports", when it was the mayor herself, Gladys Acuña, who in March 2011, when she was in the opposition, denounced a procedure "identical to this one" that the then government group, formed by CC, intended to carry out. "She assured that the legal report was not there," Rodríguez indicated.
After this complaint, an informative commission was held and the government group decided to withdraw the initiative before taking it to plenary session. "There was the report of general and urban interest, but we considered that the legal report was necessary, so it did not reach the plenary session," he explained.
Without ordinary plenary sessions
"We do not want past stories to be repeated and things not to be done well," said Rodríguez, who has criticized that for four months, the Yaiza City Council has not convened ordinary plenary sessions. "It should have convened one every two months. It seems that in Yaiza the government group acts with total immunity. They can do whatever they want. And those are not the ways, nor what the residents of the municipality deserve," he said, while saying that only extraordinary plenary sessions are convened "to cede green land and set salaries of 400,000 euros".
Therefore, at this time CC does not even know if the procedures for the transfer of public land to the Paradise Island apart-hotel have already begun. "They have not given us the information, among other things because ordinary plenary sessions have not been held. It is one of the dirty tricks that the government group is carrying out," he criticized. "Who knows what surprises the government group has in store for us," he said.
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