The City Council of Puerto de la Cruz will adapt the existing uses in seven areas of the municipality that were not specified in order to adjust the uses of the land to the real and existing activity and respond to the direct needs of the commerce and restoration sector.
To this end, the Plenary unanimously approved yesterday to delegate the competence to the Insular Environmental Commission for the minor modification of the General Planning Plan (PGO) and also for a provisional ordinance that allows the change of ownership of two public plots of the Taoro hotel. In this case, the objective is to start the works as soon as possible and respond to the demand not only of the owner but of all the people of Porto.
The two opposition groups, PP and CC initially abstained but later changed the direction of their vote and voted in favour. Specifically, the spokesman for the popular, Pedro González, justified the decision as it was a delegation of powers to another administration “and we do not think that this is losing powers or that the mayor becomes invisible.” In addition, “we voted in favor because it is the continuation of the work of the previous mandate. The penalty is the paralysis during the years of the pandemic, ”he added.
The mayor, Marco González, highlighted the “great technical work” that was carried out in the case of the Taoro hotel to find the instrument through the exchange, contemplated in the Land Law, and speed up the project.
There was also unanimity throughout the Corporation to condemn the invasion of Ukraine by Russia through an institutional motion and to continue working on the humanitarian mission with the Ukrainian citizens who are currently in the city.
After two years of pandemic, the Corporation resumed face-to-face sessions yesterday with only two absences: that of CC councilor Sandra Rodríguez for health reasons, and that of the PP mayor Ángel Montañés for labor issues.
Everything was going well until the PP councilor Pedro González referred to the Portuense Citizen Assembly (ACP) as Podemos and his spokesman, David Hernández, asked him “to be rigorous” because the ACP is made up of several political groups, including Podemos .
It was also González who asked the government group and specifically the mayor, as he is responsible for the Security area, to “remedy” the lack of maintenance of police vehicles, highlighted by the recent accident involving a motorcycle that “It had not passed any type of mechanical review since July of last year.”
In a cordial tone, far from the irony and harshness of previous years, González asked if the government group already had the second San Francisco Park risk report. The response of the councilor for Sustainable City, David Hernández, was yes, and that he had moved to the Bishopric and to the insular Heritage area “and it goes along the same lines as the first”.
