Andrés Barreto, Councilor of AC 25-M, broke down on Lanzarote-Radio ..."that the Basic Adaptation of the General Plan of Arrecife was approved by the Cotmac in 2004, despite including ¡116¡ cover-ups"... [Speaking plainly: they were too clever... with ¡116 disguises like fists, although for Dª Isabel and Dª Nuria, they are mistakes...!]. Mr. Barreto's version is not surprising since the "Business Circle" (February 2005) uncorked the same thing, revealing the deceptions embedded in article 208 of the Urban Planning Regulations, Homogeneous Zone 9: "building in industrial areas".
Indeed, from section 3 of article 208 that regulates the uses of that Zone 9 of the General Plan, the clever ones of the adaptation sucked up the fractions that expressly prohibit the installation of Shopping Centers, so from the date of publication of the Adaptation approved by the Government of the Canary Islands (BOC 104, of June 1, 2004), in the entire Homogeneous Zone 9, Shopping Centers that the General Plan of 1997 expressly prohibited can be built!. [However, I think it is elementary to develop the commercial distribution in this territory, flexibly adapting it to current needs, but be careful! with light and stenographers, without tricks. It is necessary to stimulate, now!, urgently, the obligatory commercial competition, to eliminate the anti-social scourge of the prevailing commercial concentration, which generates the worst "shopping basket in the country", causing tremendous and irreparable damage, especially to our kind elders who "enjoy" starvation pensions, precisely at the age when they need better nutrition to achieve a healthy and lasting life, which they deserve, because I know they gave everything, with love, for us!. "Cocelan" saves us a little, thank God, and the miserable devastation of our beloved "Revoca" harms us a lot, being constantly and perfidiously infringed by those who are labeled local authorities... both the Local Regime and the Consumer and User Defense Law. What an impudent and miserable indecency!]
It is unavoidable that those who call themselves responsible municipal public officials clarify to the neighbors why behind their backs, relegating the legal formula to "adapt" the General Plans [basically: "initial agreement"; "automatic suspension of licenses"; "detailed public information of ordinances, plans"; "accept the allegations of the neighbors", etc...], the request for "Adaptation of the PGOU of Arrecife of 1997" was sent to the Cotmac, without complying with such essential and unavoidable procedures, and, without forgetting that in "the plans and documents that are submitted to public information, the Secretary or authorized official, will extend a diligence in which he will state that the plans and documents are those initially approved". [Beware!, that a very serious arbitrariness may have been incurred -Art.128.5, of the Planning Regulations-)
The unusual thing about the curious fact revealed by Councilor Barreto and the business community is the apparent approval given by the Cotmac to the possible alteration of article 208 without assessing that the change in wording of the aforementioned article 208 is not covered, they say, in the mandatory file of the basic adaptation [and of course none of the other 115 absurdities], so, possibly, both the City Council and the Cotmac, unprecedentedly broke the legal rules, if we contrast the shocking positioning of Dª Isabel, when she referred in her stunned and "naive" confessions to the Adaptation, synthesizing them to the Urban Planning Regulations, ...«that the drafting team considered that its wording was not clear enough and that the text had to be improved»... (What a style Madam...)
Ramón Pérez Hernández
