The councilors of the Party of Independents (PIL) in the Yaiza City Council insist to the government group in one of their motions to the next southern plenary that the works that are being developed at number 5 of General García Escámez street be immediately stopped, and that they be reviewed to adapt to the current regulations already exposed by this same formation previously.
According to the pilista spokesperson, Gladys Acuña, the setback with respect to the main road, that is, from the Yaiza Road to the Mountains of Fire, does not comply with the minimum 12 meters required in the case that the road is of insular scope.
According to the motion, as the mayor -José Francisco Reyes- refuses to recognize this insular nature and insists on considering the road as a municipal work, it also does not comply with local regulations, which stipulates that the minimum setback must be 3 meters.
The Cabildo, by the way, notified the property on August 10 of a decree to stop the work, without which, until now, such works have been stopped, "not by a long shot".
On the other hand, Acuña refers to the regulations of the General Urban Planning Plan of Yaiza (PGOU) corresponding to the year 1973, which literally prescribes that "the maximum width of the blocks will not exceed 15 meters of facade". This work, however, occupies 38 linear meters of facade, according to data from the Technical Office of the City Council.
The third argument that the PIL councilors wield is based on the fact that the meters of buildability to which the owner of the property is entitled and that appear in the aforementioned project are more than those that actually correspond to him. Instead of 1,700 square meters of plot, as reflected in the project, a simple note issued by the Property Registry of Tías -in which these assets are registered for both Tías and Yaiza- determines that the extension of the property is 1,332 square meters -1,420 meters in the cadastral registry- so the building coefficient is also not met, according to the islanders, by having assigned different amounts between what appears in the project and the physical reality.
In this way, the councilor Gladis Acuña denounced during her intervention on Radio Lanzarote that "the Urban Planning Councilor -José Antonio Rodríguez- is favoring certain people to commit illegalities". According to the PIL spokesperson in the Yaiza City Council, "he cannot deceive us, he will deceive the citizens".
Ordinance for antennas
The members of the PIL in Yaiza have proposed to the government team to approve an ordinance that regulates the installation of mobile phone antennas, as the City Council of Tías has already done, and that, in addition, immediately orders the removal of all antennas that are installed within the town of Yaiza, so that they are relocated outside the urban centers.
The southern councilors highlight the existence of scientific evidence that certifies a close relationship between worsening health and proximity to a mobile phone antenna, they recall in their motion the case of a family whose daughters, of 8 and 2 years respectively, have suffered nervous sequelae, asthma, eye infections, allergies, and hyperactivity, due to the fact that near their house, in the Las Laderas de Playa Blanca urbanization, there is an antenna installed less than 20 meters away.
These ailments persisted and became more serious while the girls remained in that home, and disappeared or improved every time they went on vacation and once they have finished moving.
Mayor's version
Already in a plenary session held on April 2, 2004, the insularist formation emphasized the need to respect the regulations of the World Health Organization, which with respect to antennas does not allow their installation less than 500 meters from urban centers and densely populated areas, and does require the placement of fences or barriers around the sites where there are antennas to prevent access to them, as well as consulting local authorities and the population before installing the antennas.
The PIL spokesperson, Gladys Acuña, brings to mind the words of the mayor of Yaiza, José Fracisco Reyes, in the aforementioned plenary session of a year and a half ago. "The government group has carried out a very advanced work by the University of Las Palmas, through the Commonwealth of Tías-Yaiza. It is not only about taking the antennas out of the nuclei but also sharing common facilities and, in turn, installing them where the study says ..."
No less than Tías
Given that the councilors do not want to be less than the municipality of Tías, in light of these words, the PIL group in the opposition expresses its most energetic protest against the recent publication of a news item in which it is announced that the City Council of Tías has created an ordinance as a regulation for mobile phone antennas, "and Yaiza has not even spoken about the matter again", they emphasize, "when it was supposed to be a joint study", they add.
According to Acuña, the government group has not only done nothing to regulate the installation of these devices, but is even "allowing new antennas to be located in certain properties in Playa Blanca".
