"The Costa Papagayo sector is a sector that goes to urban planning surrealism". With these words, the drafter of the Yaiza General Plan, Jorge Coderch, has defined this partial plan, after being asked about the situation in which the Kikoland is left, a private leisure and sports facility, belonging to the Princesa Yaiza hotel.
The space where Kikoland is located should be a large public green area, but on the contrary it is an area with private facilities. The drafter of the General Plan has tried to explain why this "somewhat Kafkaesque" situation has occurred. "I don't remember the year, but the City Council had a debt with Social Security and it seized all the plots of green areas", Coderch indicated.
According to Coderch, Social Security put these green areas up for auction. "In the auction, they were awarded to a third party". It was in the "ninety-something year" when "the awardees" of the plot where Kikoland is located "reached an agreement with the City Council". "They were given those free spaces through a concession for 30 or 50 years without paying any fee for it", Coderch pointed out.
The drafter of the Yaiza General Plan has assured that "this is the reality" and that "this concession of green space, where Kikoland has been installed, is still within the deadline". The mayor of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña, has assured that "this land has not changed its use", while Coderch has clarified that "the plan is still a public domain plot, in which there may be concessions".
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