The mayor of Tías, Pancho Hernández, has made public this Monday the report prepared by the Municipal Technical Office of the City Council following the complaints raised by several residents of Marte Street in Puerto del Carmen and by Podemos, who denounced the installation of a fence by McDonalds restricting access to their homes. Now, in light of that report, Hernández has defended the installation of the fence, which he says is located on private land belonging to the company. "Tías is not Venezuela. Here, laws and private property are respected," he said.
According to the municipal report commissioned by the mayor, "the road that enters next to the McDonald's restaurant is within the limits of its plot, is included in the building permit and is not a public road but a private access." This is stated by the municipal architect in her writing dated October 23, in which she points out that this road "corresponds to a private access within the land of the restaurant plot, which was projected together with it, and a license was granted in the same file", in the year 2000.
The report adds that "there is in this same boundary a public pedestrian access projected by the plan and that separates the restaurant plot with the plot of houses on the western boundary!", that "this pedestrian crossing materializes in the existing sidewalk" and that "the existing houses in the adjacent plot to the west, have road and pedestrian access through Plutón Street, according to the construction file".
"Ganemos wanted to confront these neighbors with the City Council"
In view of this report, whose content states that "it had already been made known by the mayor of Tías to the affected residents in the urbanization adjacent to the Hotel Jameos Playa", Pancho Hernández regrets that Podemos, represented in the Consistory through the Ganemos brand, "has wanted to confront this group of neighbors with the City Council knowing that these neighbors do not carry property deeds that reflect that they are owners of properties adjacent to a public access road, where the McDonalds restaurant parking lot is located".
"I would have liked the neighbors and the representatives of Podemos to provide property deeds where they would accredit that they have easement or access to this private road. The only ones who have provided those deeds, and the municipal reports corroborate it, are the owners of this restaurant," the mayor emphasizes.
In addition, in a statement, he "invites" these neighbors, "if they believe that the laws protect them, to file an interdict to achieve that easement towards their properties", although he insists that "the licenses granted in this City Council in the year 2000 make it clear that the accesses to those properties are located on Plutón Street, and on Marte Street the access is private for the parking lot of this restaurant".
Regarding the criticisms launched by the councilor of Ganemos and by the Podemos group in the Cabildo, who questioned the delay in the issuance of this report and accused the mayor of "bowing to the interests of McDonalds and abandoning the residents of Marte Street", Pancho Hernández denies it. "The reality makes it very clear that the neighbors, according to their deeds, have their accesses through another street, the one known in the municipal street map as Plutón Street, they have road and pedestrian access to their homes through another street, and they intend to cross through a private property blaming this City Council and its mayor for preventing it. In Tías, Lanzarote and Spain, in Law the property is for whoever proves it. Here, Podemos wants to be on the side of those who do not hold it", he questions.
