The mayoress of the Yaiza City Council, Gladys Acuña, and the southern Councilor for Water and Public Works, Juan Lorenzo Tavío, met last Friday with the developers of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan, Club Lanzarote, and with the presidents of the homeowners' associations, to try to find solutions to the problems affecting the area. "A productive, calm and reasonable meeting". This is how Acuña has defined it, who shows her satisfaction for the agreement reached regarding the water supply of the area.
The mayoress of Yaiza wanted to highlight, first of all, "the good will" of all the parties present, and announced that the developer of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan, Club Lanzarote, committed to individualize the water meters and set a single rate for the price of water in the area, which, in Gladys Acuña's opinion, will mean "a significant relief" for the inhabitants of Montaña Roja.
Until now, according to Acuña, "this part of Playa Blanca does not receive the water supplied by Inalsa, so the partial plan is supplied with its own water produced by the developers and with which a community cistern is supplied", a circumstance that entails numerous problems given that when there is a cut in the supply, it ends up affecting all the owners, because the meters are not individualized. On the other hand, there is the circumstance that more and more neighbors are not paying the water bills, so the rest of the owners suffer the cuts.
In the meeting, neighbors, developers and City Council agreed to establish, in addition to the individualized meters, a single rate that is close to the one maintained by Inalsa for both domestic and industrial water. Once the new rate is determined, it will have to be submitted to the approval of the City Council, as well as receive the approval of the Ministry of Industry.
The mayoress confirmed that the developers have also committed to repaving the urban roads and providing the appropriate lighting to the entire urbanization, in different phases. As the neighbors recently remembered and publicly denounced, in some areas of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan there is no public lighting, and the paving of public roads "leaves much to be desired". In that sense, the surroundings of the school will be, according to Acuña, the first area where work will begin and in which the City Council is willing to collaborate.
Before the neighbors, the mayoress explained that in no case can the City Council take charge of this partial plan, given that in addition to being the largest in the Canary Islands, not all phases of it are finished. "We cannot, as the City Council is, finish the amount of infrastructure that this plan lacks, but we are willing to study phase by phase with the developers and partially receive it", Acuña pointed out.
At the end of the meeting and after almost three hours, the southern mayoress announced future contacts "with the aim of continuing to improve the quality of life of the residents of Montaña Roja".
And she positively valued the willingness of all parties to continue advancing in this recently opened process.
