The mayor of Mogán, Onalia Bueno, requests that the drafting and modification of the modernization, improvement and increase in competitiveness plans, which by Law is the responsibility of the Government of the Canary Islands, fall to the City Council so that their processing is not excessively delayed.
“It cannot be tolerated that it takes so many years to process a document of vital importance like this,” says the first mayor of Moganera, ensuring that the six years it has taken the Regional Executive to draft the document shows that the system they have proposed “is not is working". “They are not being agile and they are not maintaining stable assignments so that GESPLAN can develop the document,” she points out.
In this sense, Bueno proposes that the drafting of the PMM can be carried out directly by the City Council with its financial, material and personnel resources. “The Mogán City Council is prepared and can take on the drafting of the document,” he says. However, Law 2/2013, of May 29, on tourism renewal and modernization of the Canary Islands, does not contemplate that the Local Administration can hold these powers. It is necessary that this path be opened, and that it can be assumed by the town councils themselves, as is already possible with the General Plans. "If a City Council is competent to draft and approve a General Plan for the entire municipal area, it may be competent for a PMM that intervenes in a specific area of the municipality."
"It is necessary to put this issue on the table so that the town councils that have the necessary means can expedite the processing of documents that open the door to carrying out very necessary actions, which promote renewal and modernization, in this case of a tourist enclave as important as that of Playa de Mogán” he says. This would not only benefit the town councils that have this capacity, but also directly the Government of the Canary Islands itself, which could be freed up in terms of hiring resources and time, thus being able to address other issues and other municipalities that do not have the resources. means for this, and consequently to the entire Canary Islands.
For the mayor, municipalities cannot be responsible for being a pole of attraction for investment "when the processing of the PMM, which are the documents that precisely encourage it, is not in our power." “If we are of legal age,” as the director of Territorial Policy, Onán Cruz, has stated, “they should let us act as autonomous institutions.”
The second PMM adapts the current tourist planning of Playa de Mogán to the new demands and modifications included in Law 9/2015 and the Regulation of Law 2/2013 as well as in Law 4/2007, of July 13, on Land and of the Protected Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands and supports the enhancement of the cultural elements of Playa de Mogán and the adaptation of its infrastructure to current needs, the recovery of free space as a place for walking and recreation and the regeneration of degraded areas and with less architectural and urban value.
The technical documents can be consulted here. The file is evident in the General Directorate of Territorial Planning, located at Plaza de los Derechos Humanos, No. 22, Multiple Use Building I, 7th floor, postal code 35071-Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in hours from 9:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
