This week, the Arrecife City Council approved in plenary session the ex officio review of the building's first occupancy license. According to a municipal technical report from June 7, 2006, the works that were carried out do not correspond to the building permit. Moreover, that report indicates that the public road is being invaded on several streets, that a greater number of premises than allowed have been built, sidewalks have been built at street level without being allowed, or that some of the homes do not conform to the authorized project, among other irregularities that have not been corrected.
Despite this situation, Cabrera and Machín formalized the delivery of public roads by the developer, Yágabo, of the Salatin Group. The process began in 2003 when the City Council granted a construction license. Two years later, the project was modified. It went from allowing a building with 138 homes, six premises, three offices and 552 parking spaces to a building with 69 more homes, one more premise and 74 fewer parking spaces. Finally, a first occupancy license was requested on February 13, 2006 for that number of homes (207), 63 premises and 300 parking spaces.
ROUTE
On June 7, 2006, the municipal building surveyor detected serious irregularities, already mentioned, in the execution of the work. On September 28, the developer submitted a document indicating that they had been corrected. On October 10, the accidental secretary acknowledged that the deficiencies in the basement had been corrected but that the rest remained uncorrected.
However, on November 2, without any municipal report to support it, the accidental secretary herself and the former Councilor for Urban Planning (later expelled from the PSOE), Nuria Cabrera, signed the public road delivery certificate. Four days later, the developer requested a first occupancy license by administrative silence, and ten days later, the accidental secretary herself and the accidental mayor (unidentified) signed the first occupancy license, which is now considered null.
In September of this year, the City Council commissioned a legal report on the validity of the first occupancy license, which indicates that this license could not have been granted by administrative silence and that the reported infractions, such as the occupation of public land, are serious. It also acknowledges that if the obtaining of said license were annulled, it could lead to the recognition of compensation to those potentially affected.
DELIVERY OF ROADS
The delivery of roads by the developer, the first step to be able to legalize the building, is based on a report by an architect, provided by the company itself, which details the length of the roads. The delivery certificate states that Garajonay Street is twelve meters wide and that Caldera de Taburiente and Yágabo Streets go from ten to fourteen meters. The municipal technical report, however, indicates that this is not the case and that the width of these two streets remains ten meters, while Garajonay is eleven meters.
The building, next to the Palace of Justice, began to be occupied in March 2006. Most of the homes are inhabited and two cafes, a bank branch, an insurance company and some other shops are also open to the public. The basement was prepared for a supermarket that has not come into operation. Some residents were without proper electricity and water for more than half a year until the developer obtained the first occupancy license, since the municipal report had been negative.
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