The Cabildo de Tenerife has updated the Master Plan for the Use and Management of the Anaga Rural Park through a minor modification that has been on public display until yesterday, Saturday. A change that is due to the need to regularize certain practices, some related to livestock and traditional agriculture, and others to sports. This last section expresses the need for the Master Plan to include, expressly, some prohibitions such as cycling along the Anaga trails, for example, but also the practice of cross country, or the escalation in points that until now were allowed. Precisely this regulation of sports practice within the Anaga Rural Park It can affect one of the most prestigious sporting events within the municipality of Santa Cruz and which is none other than the Santa Cruz Extreme, which runs inside the massif. For this reason, the Sustainable Santa Cruz Foundation, on behalf of the Capital City Council, has presented an allegation so that this test is not affected.
Specifically, it is requested that the race be allowed to pass along the path that connects Igueste de San Andrés with Chamorga, since on a flat surface, the route could affect, in its upper part, the integral natural reserve of Ijuana. “For the Santa Cruz Extreme it is fundamental, to offer the original routes, the passage through this path, for which it is requested that the passage be allowed, understanding that it does not affect the Ijuana integral natural reserve, conditioned on the event not abandoning the said path.
In the allegation presented by the Sustainable Santa Cruz Foundation, mention is made of another prohibition that would affect the sporting event in its next edition, which will be on October 7 and 8, and which is the modification introduced in the Land Law last month of December. In this change, a nuance was introduced, which, in the opinion of the Foundation, would alter the original routes of the test, and that precisely the modification of the PRUG of Anaga allows to circumvent, a correction that needs, according to the City Council, the aforementioned point to the path between Igueste and Chamorga, to guarantee the future of the race within Anaga.
The modification to which reference is made went from allowing sports events within the nature reserves as long as they were authorized by the Cabildo to allowing them only if they were not expressly prohibited and with the prior authorization of the Cabildo. According to Santa Cruz, “this change modifies the original route since the current wording of the PRUG prevents the test from running through Restricted Use Zones (ZUR)”, hence the draft PRUG circumvents that prohibition.
