The Teguise City Council approved on Friday afternoon the Progress of the General Urban Planning Plan of the municipality.
The matter was debated in an extraordinary session of the Teguise plenary session and was approved with the sole abstention of Alternativa Ciudadana 25 de Mayo (AC-25M).
The Advance will be submitted to public display in the coming days for a period of two months and citizens will be able to make their suggestions.
This is a starting document, since the Initial Plan will then have to be approved, and then move on to the final one. Once the Initial Plan is approved, allegations can be made to it.
For his part, the AC councilor, Miguel Ángel Figueras, commented in statements to LA VOZ that the progressive formation abstained in the vote on the aforementioned document "since we do not know the virtues and the deficiencies that it may have".
Likewise, Figueras sarcastically thanked the mayor, Juan Pedro Hernández, for bringing to the plenary a matter that he could have approved by decree, as in the case of the Advance of the PGOU.
Gesplán
On the other hand, the agreement with Gesplan for the financing of the drafting of the Adaptation of the PGOU to the General Planning and Tourism Guidelines of the Government of the Canary Islands was also approved. The drafting will be paid 50 percent between the City Council and the Department of Territorial Planning of the Autonomy, which will mean an expense of more than 200,000 euros for the local Council.
Agreement with ULPGC
The City Council approved a collaboration agreement between the municipality, the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (UGLPG) and the Canaria University Foundation of Las Palmas for the realization of a technical report on the tourist dynamization of Costa Teguise.
This agreement implies the upcoming celebration of a seminar on tourism in the coastal town from which the report will come out, as well as an informative bulletin that visitors to the municipality can handle. All this will mean the disbursement of 3,400 euros for the municipal coffers.
Other issues
On the other hand, a item of the General Budgets of the municipality of 2005 was modified, corresponding to the interests to commercial entities, that is, suppliers, to which 15,000 euros will be allocated in order to settle part of the debts that the Corporation has contracted.
Likewise, the transfer of powers over the management of the road section that connects the towns of Soo and Caleta de Famara was approved.
As the Councilor for Public Works of the Cabildo, Sergio Machín, explained a few days ago, the road in question was initially conceived as a rural road, which has already been surpassed for some time by the growth of the aforementioned towns.
For all these reasons, the section has become an essential part of the island road network, so the reforms that have been made to it just a month ago have been paid for by the First Institution.
Likewise, the Corporation agreed to allocate 3,000 euros to the students of the Pancho Lasso School of Art for the realization of a project called "Modernization and Homologation for the Department of Culture".
It is about innovating and catching up in terms of the corporate image of the Area.
Institutional declaration
At the end of the extraordinary plenary session, another urgent session was convened on the fly to make an institutional declaration from the City Council requesting the Ministry of Agriculture to declare the municipality as a catastrophic zone due to the significant damage caused to agriculture by the Delta storm this week.
Teguise has been one of the most affected municipalities, where in areas such as Los Valles entire farms have been destroyed and practically all the rofe of the plantations was lost, an unrecoverable infrastructure, as the Councilor for Agriculture of the Island Council, Higinio Hernández, confirmed to LA VOZ. The councilors of all the formations supported the declaration without fissures, which was approved unanimously.
