The Municipal Management of Urban Planning of Santa Cruz has modified its List of Jobs (RPT) to reinforce its structure for the implementation of two work programs aimed at streamlining files. The first of them focuses on the licensing department that, as detailed by the mayor of the area, Carlos Tarife, “suffered a collapse with the fall of the General Management Plan (PGO) of 2013. There were many license applications underway that it was necessary to review and report on the basis of the new planning, and, in addition, we also need to update everything related to activity licenses, mainly those related to nightlife, which we have managed to regularize ”. Regarding this last point, Tarife explained that, “many businesses on Avenida Anaga, in the La Noria area, have been regularized, and most had to do with terrace licenses, which in some cases had more capacity than authorized . Fortunately, the fact that the Government of the Canary Islands has approved that up to 48 chairs do not need to request a license, it will greatly simplify our work ”. Regarding the percentage of regularized nightlife, he estimated that at least half have gone through some regularization process.
For this department, two general administration technicians are incorporated, who will reinforce the activity licensing section, and a technical architect who will be in charge of the rest of the licenses.
The second program that is going to be reinforced is the one aimed at obtaining inspection files for buildings over 80 years old, which in 2022 must undergo the Technical Building Inspection (ITE), which corresponds to those built in 1942. “I continue thinking that it is a mistake to maintain such a high age for buildings, and the Government of the Canary Islands should modify the Land Law, paying attention to what architects and property registrars, for example, say, and that is that it should be set at 30 years ”, Defended Tarife.
This modification of the RPT is provided within the budgets of the Urban Planning Management for 2022, which amounts to 9,625,000 euros, a figure similar to that of 2021, and of which 5.4 are going to personnel. A budget that also includes 800,000 euros for subsidiary executions, after one year, that of 2021, in which more interventions of this type were carried out.
Regarding the special plans (Antiguo Santa Cruz and Los Hoteles-Pino del Oro), Tarife trusts that it will be able to put them out to tender again during 2022, as well as advance in the development of the new General Management Plan, for which it foresees that this year progress can be approved, specifically in the first quarter.
