The City Hall of Santa Cruz de Tenerife will review the signage of existing parking lots on some sidewalks of the municipality, which will facilitate the removal of personal mobility vehicles (VMP), as the circulation and mobility ordinance approved in 2019 has expired.
In a statement, the local corporation reports a car issued by the supreme court the past day 23 in which inadmissible the resource of the City council to avoid the annulment of said ordinance.
And it advances that an update is already being worked on with the idea of having it approved within a period of five months.
This annulment of the ordinance propitiates that “a general prohibition would be in force for any vehicle to park on the sidewalks,” reads the statement from the Santa Cruz City Council.
The future regulation regarding the VMPs will include limitations, conditions of the concessions or registration of the same.
The Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Evelyn Alonso, explains that the new document will be “in accordance with the current reality of mobility and the needs of Santa Cruz” and its preparation will include processes of participation and public information to “bring together all the sensitivities and interests of the citizenry”.
Until the new ordinance is ready, the local corporation has “an open margin to regulate, by decree, any situation that requires an urgent solution or determination,” Alonso says.
According to the criteria of the municipal technicians, this process of drafting the new ordinance should be used to work, in parallel, on the regulation of the so-called low emission zones.
In addition, while the new mobility regulations are being outlined, there is a commitment from the Santa Cruz City Council to review the provisions that are maintained and the sanctions that had been incorporated with the now repealed ordinance.
In fact, the decision has already been made to start the ex officio annulment process for those that could be affected by the decision of the Supreme Court.
In any case, the councilor points out that “90 percent of the sanctions that are processed are based on breaches of state legislation on traffic, motor vehicle circulation and road safety”, for which she calculates that “there will not be too many cancellations since May 23.
Regarding the Supreme Court ruling, it emphasizes that “it does not assess the content of said ordinance and is motivated by the absence of a certificate from an information commission included in the processing of the same.”
Therefore, “the judgment of December 2020 issued by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands in this regard is maintained,” the note concludes.
