After learning through La Voz de Lanzarote of the license granted by the Yaiza City Council for the construction of more than a thousand homes in Playa Blanca, the ordinary session of the Cabildo Plenary on February 28, 2007 agreed to require the mayor of Yaiza, immediately and within the non-extendable period of ten days, the administrative file referring to this urban license and to entrust the legal services of the Institution to report on the legal possibility of proposing or adopting exceptional measures of subrogation of the municipal urban powers of the Yaiza City Council, and on whether, in view of the documentation held by the Cabildo, there are rational indications of criminality.
On March 15, 2007, a letter from the mayor of Yaiza was entered in the General Registry of the Cabildo, accompanied by a certified copy of the file and license project referred to. By means of a letter addressed to the Yaiza City Council, dated March 28, the Councilor for Territorial Policy and the Environment of the Cabildo, Mario Pérez, requested the southern Corporation to send part of the technical project documentation that was observed not to have been sent, a request that, to date, has not been satisfied.
Based on these precedents, the reports prepared by both the legal services of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and those of the Office of the Island Plan for Territorial Planning, determine that the license does not conform to the applicable territorial and urban planning. What for now there are no announcements by the Cabildo is of that possibility of initiating criminal actions against the mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes.
"The Cabildo of Lanzarote has acted and will continue to act with the utmost rigor in respecting the current legality," announced the president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, who also stated that all legal channels will be used to guarantee sustainability, "and more so in this specific case, which would mean doubling the current population of Playa Blanca."
