The Teguise City Council has provisionally approved the General Plan for Urban Planning (PGO) of the municipality, in a plenary session that took place this Thursday. This document has passed with the votes in favor of CC and PSOE, which form the government group, the vote against of the PP and the abstention of the PIL and the councilor of the group of the non-attached, Jorge Quintero.
The PSOE has valued this provisional approval and has assured that the PGO of Teguise responds to the "territorial model defined in the PIOT of 1991". Thus, it has given its support to the document, in accordance with the position it adopted last August after analyzing it together with a team created ad hoc by the socialist formation to study the plan.
The PSOE has also indicated that the document makes "the appropriate land reservations" in accordance with the new PIOL drafted by the Cabildo "to accommodate the large island facilities of the future that will be located in the municipality, such as the University Campus or the socio-health facilities".
The local group of the PSOE in Teguise has lamented, however, that "it has been impossible to accept all the allegations of the neighbors, since many of them do not fit in the territorial legislation in force".
The PSOE has highlighted that in the population centers the development of new land plots is contained, limiting the PGO Teguise to outlining its edges. Likewise, the socialists find adequate the fit of nuclei that have been dragging problems for years such as Caleta Caballo, Los Ancones, el Charco del Palo and Los Cocoteros.
Semi-ring road in La Villa
On the other hand, the population growth projections, which the PSOE of Teguise already described in its day as "correct", are attended to with "the appropriate land reservations to take into account in the future the needs of schools, parks, gardens, social and health facilities, as well as the adequate commercial and industrial development of the municipality".
The socialists of Teguise are "satisfied" with the solution of low-intensity semi-ring road that is proposed to divert traffic in the center of La Villa, on the road in the direction of San Bartolomé. Likewise, they point out that the PGO Teguise does not propose a ring road to Tahíche, since it is the responsibility of the new PIOL, but that in any case they are "in total disagreement with that proposal".
The area of Costa Teguise is developed through a Modernization and Competitiveness Plan that, among other things, differentiates tourist uses from residential ones, proposes actions to qualify urban areas and rehabilitate establishmentss, proposes a Coastal Improvement Plan, opens the door to the demanded nautical-sports port and allows recreational and sports facilities for tourist and residential purposes, as highlighted by the PSOE through a statement.
12 years of "obsolete regulations and conflicts"
The mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, has also positively valued the provisional approval of the document, after 12 years of "obsolete regulations, conflicts and projects stuck due to inconsistencies and discrepancies due to lack of planning". "The history of Lanzarote can attest that only those municipalities that have enjoyed political stability have an approved plan and the time has come for Teguise", the mayor has defended.
The planning has 8,000 pages that determine "the regime applicable to each class of land and define the fundamental elements of the municipality's equipment system", as highlighted by the government group. Betancort has assured that "it is not a speculative plan, it does not pursue urban growth, but it will provide legal certainty to neighbors and investors, based on criteria of legality, and that also maintains the philosophy and aesthetics of the towns".
After 12 years since the approval of the last municipal planning document, the Councilor for Urban Planning of Teguise, Echedey Eugenio, has stated that "the towns need urban land so that their neighbors can respond to the demand of their children to live in the towns and not have to abandon them and see how rural areas gradually age".
With the approval of this planning in plenary, only the approval of the Cotmac remains after receiving the reports to this document from Coasts, Civil Aviation, Cabildo and Ministry of Territorial Policy. The PGOU of Teguise is pending its final approval, which will mean for the municipality "looking towards the future, looking towards young people who want a home, having industrial land, green areas and 200,000 square meters for equipment", as highlighted by the mayor, who has pointed out that "in short, it remains to make Teguise a municipality with the capacity for economic development and comfortable for its inhabitants".