The councilor of the Technical Office of the Arrecife City Council, Vicente Dorta, has assured that the Fajardo street parking "is legalizable" and that the Consistory is already "working on it." "The seven floors could be saved or at most the roof will have to be demolished," said the mayor, who specified that "everything will depend on what the judge decides."
This is how Dorta expressed himself, after the Superior Court of Justice sent a requirement to the mayor of Arrecife, which forces him to execute the sentence that declared this parking lot illegal. "It is a sentence that was already being executed, but that had not been communicated to the TSJC, according to what the accidental secretary told me. And we have proceeded to send all the documentation," Reguera said for his part, before the microphones of Radio Lanzarote.
The Contentious Chamber of the TSJC annulled the building's construction license in 2008, for exceeding the maximum number of floors allowed in the area. The parking building has seven floors above ground (a commercial ground floor plus six floors and a parking basement) and the 1997 General Plan allowed only six as maximum in that area.
Error in the General Plan
According to the councilor of the Technical Office, Vicente Dorta, the problem with this parking lot is due to "an error published in the General Plan." And, according to him, in 1997 a modification of the same was made, which was approved in plenary, but was transcribed incorrectly. "In the basic adaptation of 2004, they did not realize either and it was not until 2008, with the complaint, when they found out about the error."
Specifically, according to Dorta, in the plenary it was agreed that the buildings had to have "a maximum height of 6 floors or 31 meters high." However, what was reflected in the document is that "both had to be met."
The Arrecife City Council, according to the councilor of the Technical Office, has already transferred this problem to the Government of the Canary Islands, from where they assured that the solution to the parking lot would have to go "through retracting the file and reporting that transcription error." Thus, according to Dorta, "the seven floors could be saved" if the judge admits it and if not, "at most the roof would have to be demolished, which is what is out of order."
In any case, once the documentation is prepared by the City Council technicians, it will have to be transferred to the Ministry of the Government of the Canary Islands, and then go through plenary. "Then we will have to see if the judge admits it or not", concludes Dorta.
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