When La Santa was still celebrating the acquisition of La Isleta by the Ministry of the Environment, bad news has now arrived for the residents from the central government. Or at least, for those who have their homes within what Costas considers to be a servitude zone. However, both the Government of the Canary Islands and the Tinajo City Council are willing to stand up to the appeal presented by the General Directorate of Coasts against the COTMAC agreement that declared the population center of La Santa as an urban area.
For the moment, the Vice-Ministry of Territorial Planning published this Monday in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands its decision to send the entire file of the case to the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC), in order to respond to the appeal received from Madrid. And everything indicates that it will not be the only response it finds.
In fact, the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, has already announced his intention for the City Council to appear in the case, and in the Buenos Días Lanzarote program, on Radio Lanzarote, he has called on the residents of La Santa who may be affected if the boundary is modified to join the appeal in a common front. The objective is clear: to demonstrate before the Justice that, as determined by the COTMAC, La Santa was an urban center before the General Coastal Law of 1988 came into force.
For the mayor of Tinajo, Costas wants to "impose the law by force." He also explains that if the appeal of the General Directorate prospers, "almost the entire town" would be affected. Mainly those who are less than 20 meters from the coast, because "they will threaten to tear down the houses", and then those who are in the 100-meter margin, "because to do anything they will have to ask for permission".
"They are humiliating the residents, they are persecuting them, and they do not even allow people who have their little house to live in to paint it or fix the over-roof," Machín denounces, showing his outrage at an issue that promises to sneak into the electoral campaign.
