"Now it's time for a task that will take time, because urban planning in Yaiza almost needs to be re-established based on criteria of respect for legality, seriousness, and honesty." That's how harshly the drafter of the Lanzarote Island Planning Plan, José María Ezquiaga, referred to the situation they have found in the south of the island, where hotels, homes, and even a marina do not comply with the current planning regulations and are even involved in criminal cases.
"In the case of Marina Rubicón, to be honest, the entire procedure or the reality of the urban planning situation in that municipality during past times is a disaster," he responded on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero, when asked about the situation of that marina, which was built despite not being contemplated in the General Plan of Yaiza or in the Island Plan, as highlighted by the investigation of the Yate case.
However, while in that case the Prosecutor's Office has requested that the license granted by José Francisco Reyes be declared illegal, when the port's construction was almost finished, the new territorial plans being processed aim to provide coverage to regularize it. This has happened with the General Plan of Yaiza that is being processed and has just been re-exposed to the public, and it will also happen with the Island Plan, as confirmed by Ezquiaga himself.
"Indeed, the port will be able to be regularized, but it must be done through the specific regulatory determinations of the supplementary plan," José María Ezquiaga pointed out, referring to the Supplementary General Plan of Yaiza. In that document, after the allegation phase, a change has been introduced by which that land goes from "unplanned urban" and pending a "special plan" to "consolidated planned urban land." And the "planning" is what the port's promoters have proposed, which is actually already built.