The La Laguna Town Planning Department has put out to tender the drafting of a minor modification to the General Planning Plan (PGO) of the municipality to improve mobility in Tejina, specifically, in the neighborhoods of Milán and Lomo las Rías. With the future award of the contract, with an estimated value of 266,818 euros, a study will begin on the urban fabric of both areas, in order to facilitate circulation and provide greater security in the first nucleus, especially in its exit to the west. (by La Palmita), and in the second, from the main road to the Plaza de El Pico.
The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, recalled that the tejinero town has experienced “significant population growth in recent years.” Thus, he pointed out that in the last two decades the number of inhabitants “has increased by 25%, which has been accompanied by the urban development of this town so closely linked to the agricultural sector.” “From the Government team we are committed to a model of orderly and sustainable growth, which allows us to advance socially and economically without losing our environmental values,” said the local councilor.
Both Luis Yeray Gutiérrez and the Councilor for Territory Planning and Director of Urban Planning, Santiago Pérez, highlighted the importance of having the population itself to plan the future of La Laguna. This is participatory work that has already begun and has served to collect, in the case of Tejina, two citizen demands to improve mobility. On the one hand, a finishing line in the north of the urban center (between La Majada, the football field and La Palmita) and, on the other, the widening of the Lomo las Rías road and the Pico Bermejo road (between the curve of Pata Rajada and the Plaza de El Pico).
The mayor stated that both actions are considered technically “feasible to be studied for a minor modification of the PGO”, for which the drafting of the document and the environmental evaluation have already been put out to tender, with an estimated term of two years.
Santiago Pérez recalls that it was at the beginning of last year when the participatory process began with the citizen platforms that emerged as a result of the review process of the PGO, which began in 2009, with the aim of raising those requests that they considered most urgent. In total, 50 requests for intervention of different nature were collected, such as the two proposals for Tejina.
Taking into account the duty to roll back the approval procedure of the PGO to adapt the environmental assessment procedure to the Law on Land and Protected Natural Areas, the councilor alludes to the need to carry out “a prior study on the future model, within of a single city strategy, which allows us to face a new process later, in which two essential aspects are taken into account, the 2030 Agenda and COVID, for the more sustainable and effective development of La Laguna in the face of the upcoming challenges”.
