The City Council goes to court to demolish La Rocar

The City Council goes to court to demolish La Rocar

Antonio Hernádez declared this Tuesday that the City Council has gone to the Court to authorize the entry into the old La Rocar cannery, today a refuge for homeless people and drug addicts. "Let it be ...

January 15 2008 (19:22 WET)
The City Council turns to the Justice system to demolish La Rocar
The City Council turns to the Justice system to demolish La Rocar

Antonio Hernádez declared this Tuesday that the City Council has gone to the Court to authorize the entry into the old La Rocar cannery, today a refuge for homeless people and drug addicts. "Let the judge authorize me to enter and demolish", declared the deputy mayor of the capital, convinced that the warehouses that occupy the land of the Islote del Francés are "a black spot in the city center that must be demolished because human lives are in danger".

And there is a risk of imminent ruin according to the City Council, which is why it wants to demolish the old warehouses, although their demolition will be done at different times because "the roofs of some, have to be dismantled one by one", Hernández detailed.

But in addition to overcoming the obstacle of entering to demolish on privately owned land, the City Council has to evict the people who survive in the abandoned warehouses. Antonio Hernández assured this Tuesday that the Department of Social Affairs, headed by Emilia Perdomo, has been working for four months on the relocation of the occupants of La Rocar. "I would say that more than half are no longer there and that is noticeable on the street, where there are fewer parking attendants", Hernández considered.

A leisure place that does not look like Parque de Los Pinos

Regarding the future of the area once what remains of the old cannery is demolished, Antonio Hernández explained that the owners of La Rocar "will not be allowed to build the volume they want" on land located in the center of the capital, but the deputy mayor understands that "something has to be done on that plot".

Hernández has drawn in words the image of what he says the Islote del Francés should be. "An attractive, illuminated place that we can all enjoy and that all visitors to the island come to. A green, even commercial place, but different: a pleasant walk where we see young and old and that is the engine that regenerates the entire area, including the Charco de San Ginés".

And the deputy mayor is clear, as he told the media, that La Rocar should not take the model of another area of Arrecife. "I wouldn't want it to be a park like Los Pinos, which people are afraid to walk through at night".

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