The Councilor for Urban Planning of Yaiza, José Antonio Rodríguez, denied this Thursday that the work being done on García Escámez street, right in front of the Civil Guard barracks, is illegal. Thus, responding to the criticisms made by the councilor of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL), Gladys Acuña, he asserted that "the work complies perfectly" since it affects a road that is of local scope. The representative of the opposition, on the other hand, asks the Cabildo to stop the work because it is next to the road and is the possible cause of an accident.
He does not understand why the councilor made the public complaint. "Don't come and say that the work does not comply because she herself took the data from the file in front of us," he stressed, adding that there has been a confusion regarding the Cabildo road. "We understand that the road is consolidated within the urban area and that therefore it is ours," he remarked.
Quite annoyed, Gladys Acuña intervened after the councilor to tell him first that "before speaking on the radio, he should wash his mouth out with soap," clarifying that although it is true that she saw the file of the controversial work with the technicians, "I never did it with that gentleman, who would be in his office." "When you give a license you cannot base it on presumptions, because the law is written. Either the road is of local scope or it is of island scope," she commented quite surprised, stating that when she made the accusation it was because in the Cabildo they showed them the regulations that establish that the road is of island scope. "Even if it were not so, even if it were a road of local scope, it does not keep the setback of three meters," she guaranteed.
The PIL spokesperson in the southern Consistory invited the media to go to the place to capture the corresponding images, an invitation that this newspaper accepted. She did it with the idea that it would be verified that "the cut of the slope is right next to the road." "What's more, there is an accident there and there is no protective fence; there is someone who comes from the parties with a drink too many and goes to the bottom, because it has a drop of more than two and a half meters," she said somewhat more than angry, asserting that she had returned to the work to check if the Cabildo had stopped it, which has not been done.
On the other hand, the Popular Party (PP) presented an initiative in the Cabildo yesterday through its spokesperson, Francisco Cabrera, to investigate the accusations made by the southern opposition. Specifically, the popular ask "what type of actions have been carried out from the corresponding area to verify the complaint of the councilors of Yaiza about the construction of two blocks of houses, where one of them invades a road whose competence corresponds to the Island Corporation".