Different points of common interest make up the agenda of what will be the first Port-City commission of the year 2022, a call held for today’s afternoon, January 25, at the Port Board Building. It will be the third meeting of a Commission constituted in May 2021 as a debate body between both institutions to promote the projects that are in development at any given time.
One of the aspects that will be addressed on the agenda is the situation of untreated water discharges from the Dársena Pesquera area and the possibilities of eliminating or relocating the San Andrés water outfall, which has already caused that some company has given up settling in the area due to the possible condition of the outfall. Precisely this area will be the protagonist of another point on the agenda, in which the beginning of the non-substantial modification of the Special Plan of the Port will be addressed, an initiative of the port entity to facilitate the establishment of companies in the functional area of the Fishing Basin where the land of Zona Franca Tenerife is located.
The meeting will also serve to define the collaboration procedure between the port and the city in terms of holding events, in the port’s public domain area. This is directly related to the intention indicated by the City Council to request permission from the port to use the land that is destined each year for the celebration of the Christmas Concert to install the stage of the Carnival that is expected to be held in the month of June. “Puertos de Tenerife supports the occasional celebration of different cultural and popular events in the port as long as they do not interfere with the port operations that the Tenerife entity must ensure,” advances the Port.
bike lane
One of the aspects in which progress is expected is the transfer of the TF-11 road (San Andrés highway) from the North Pier to the Las Olas roundabout, in the East Dock, a section along which, precisely, Puertos de Tenerife defends the cycle lane that the Capital Corporation wants to develop. Although the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, headed by its president Carlos González, defends the construction of said lane, it also shows that its configuration, as currently proposed by the City Council, interferes with the port public domain, being able to affect the activity of certain concessions. Thus, it is hoped that today’s meeting will allow progress in these negotiations and in the establishment of conditions.
The last two points of this first meeting of the year focus on the development of the corresponding agreement for the transfer of the land of the Maritime Park, which is still pending formalization, and the definitive departure of the Tenerife Port Authority from the Maritime Park Society, in addition of the status of the procedure for the start of the works of El Bloque, in Valleseco.
