It was in November 2010 when the Plenary of the City Council of La Orotava definitively approved the Lercaro Urbanization Project, one of the most important sectors of the municipality to be developed in the future, despite the fact that its partial plan had received the go-ahead four years earlier. .
After taking this step, the different plots were awarded to the owners and the green, public and road areas were delimited. The latter are essential to decongest traffic through the historic center. At that time, the Consistory advanced the execution of some roads due to the start-up of the Rafael Arozarena Secondary Education Institute.
However, this large 200,000-square-meter plot remains undeveloped and has no urbanization plans, at least in the short term. To break with this situation and give it the impetus it needs, the City Council proposed a few months ago to modify the urbanization project so that it can be executed in several phases and not just one, as was initially planned.
This matter was addressed in the plenary session yesterday since one of the necessary conditions to be able to do so was to continue with the environmental evaluation process of this change in the project and this was considered by the CC, PSOE and PP groups, who voted in favor while that Assembly for La Orotava abstained.
The modification initiative comes from some of the owners of the sector who proposed to the City Council new formulas to develop an important area for the Villa and that consists of doing it in phases.
“The municipal government has expressed jointly with all the political groups its favorable position to this change and in that line we began the procedures for modifying the urbanization project with the aim of moving from a single phase to different phases, since that it would allow the owners of certain parcels – always with the approval of the municipal technicians – to redraw the urbanization “, explains the Councilor for Planning and Land Management, Narciso Pérez.
In this sense, he clarifies that “the road network, the free spaces or the public areas will not be changed, but rather they will be divided into phases. And any owner who wants to promote, which we know that there are, some of them, will be able to execute it by presenting that project to the City Council by developing the part of the road network or free spaces that corresponds to it ”.
In Pérez’s opinion, “it can be a positive alternative for a sector that has suffered so many setbacks in the last decade, initially due to a lack of agreements between the owners, and then, when it seemed that this step had been skipped, the crisis of 2007 arrived. -2008 ”, he remembers.
In the background there is also a public interest, according to the councilor, “because new green areas and free spaces will be obtained for citizens and the missing urbanization works can be filled in, such as a large part of the road network that is essential for the relief from the traffic of the historic center ”. This last objective is essential for the future mobility plan, which is already being drafted by the City Council, and which will allow the infrastructures that are located next to the historic center to be developed.
