The Councilor for Urban Planning, Davinia Ramírez, highlights that in three months of government, seven planning modification files have been processed
Alejandro Marichal: “With this initial approval we begin the procedures to respond to more than 300 neighbors who have waited more than 25 years”
The Department of Urban Planning of the City Council of San Bartolomé de Tirajana proposes to the municipal plenary session the Initial Approval of the Minor Modification of the PGOU, to carry out the planning of the Lomo los Azules sector as an agricultural settlement; and as a rural settlement, to the Lomo Cuatro Matas sector (better known as Lomo La Presa). With this approval, the Department will promote the file to respond to the need to regularize the planning situation of these territories with the uses that the law allows and thereby consolidating both nuclei of rural housing.
In total, there are about 120 homes that are without Planning and, as the first deputy mayor points out, after the Final Approval, “the incorporation into the Planning can be consolidated, thus responding to more than 300 neighbors who have waited longer. 25 years old.” The Councilor for Urban Planning, Davinia Ramírez, will present to the plenary session this Thursday the two proposals for initial approval of the minor modification of the PGOU, texts that will be submitted to public exhibition, Ramírez points out that the process until Final Approval will last at least six months. The councilor highlights the work carried out by the Urbaniamos team, which "in three months of government, seven planning modification files have been processed."
The two modifications proposed, after receiving the corresponding favorable report from the municipal Environmental Body, indicate, in the case of Lomo La Presa, that the 42 homes that are located within the limits of the rural settlement that is ordered, and around them, will be affected. of 33 counted in the 200 meters from the lower limit of the settlement limitation. In total, the perimeter area of the settlement will be 20.122 square meters, and in it the homes will have residential use, which may have a maximum of two heights, and defines the minimum plot unit suitable for building in the settlement as 500 m². .
For their part, the homes located in the area of Lomo Los Azules will go from being rustic land to being classified as an agricultural settlement to adjust the reality of the area to the law. This space is made up of 44 houses isolated from each other and surrounded by large agricultural areas currently in production, which would add up to a total area of 41,82 hectares. These homes would be defined, after Final Approval, for residential-agricultural use and define the minimum plot unit suitable for building in the settlement of 5.000 m². This provides a solution to the organization of all the homes and contemplates the appearance of possible new buildings that respond to the legal determination of the forecast of future vegetative growth of the settlement.
Background and Planning Path
It should be remembered that this process began in 2019, with the current first deputy mayor, Alejandro Marichal, being the Councilor for Urban Planning. Marichal met with the affected neighbors to find a solution for both settlements that were left out of the General Planning Plan (PGO) of 1996, causing these hundred houses to remain as consolidated nuclei outside of municipal land planning. Conscientious work then begins with the help of the Platform Association of Affected People of El Salobre, Lomo los Azules and surrounding areas, with the aim of carrying out a real diagnosis, plot by plot, to verify that all the farms or, at least in Most of them would be part of a possible minor planning modification.
After several meetings with the residents of the area, and in agreement with them, the Department of Urban Planning came to the conclusion that the best option to resolve the urban problems was to initiate minor planning modifications given that opting for urban land in which Previously, there was a nucleus of housing, without urban planning order, with numerous owners and consolidated rights, it was not the best option given that urban planning management in practice would almost certainly be unexecutable. For this reason, the conversion to rural land for rural and agricultural settlement became the best formula to provide an urban solution to Salobre, Lomo los Azules and surrounding areas, since the urban planning requirements for the owners were much lower. That is, they would not have to disburse large amounts of money to develop, nor initiate expropriation and compensation procedures, since the consideration of a rural or agricultural settlement, in practice, would mean recognizing the current urban reality and, consequently, it would be much more agile and less burdensome for residents to begin the process of legalizing their homes.
Based on the above, with an entry date of June 2021, the Platform Association of Affected People of El Salobre, Lomo los Azules and surrounding areas presented the Strategic Environmental document and draft of the Minor Modification of the General Urban Planning Plan of San Bartolomé de Tirajana of the area of Lomo Cuatro Matas and Lomo Los Azules, which after being evaluated and approved by the Environmental Evaluation Body, will be the file that will be submitted to the plenary session this Thursday, October 26.
