The spokesman for United We Can (United Left, We Can, Equo) in the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, Ramón Trujillo, denounced this Monday that the capital loses more than 1.2 million euros a year in six public car parks.
Trujillo, in a statement, has criticized that the Canary Coalition has granted, to several companies, the operation of six public car parks, in the center of the city, in exchange for an average canon, per space, of 40.9 euros per year.
However, in a study by the City Council, from 2022, to award a parking concession, an annual fee of 396 euros is established.
This means that, where Santa Cruz is collecting around 148,000 euros per year, it should be collecting 1,440,000 euros, which, however, it prefers to give away to companies, the councilor has warned.
Trujillo has lamented that the City Council not only demands ridiculous payments, as a canon, for the most lucrative car parks in the city, but also that the concessions have been granted for fifty years, instead of the 32 years proposed when it was intended require a fee of 396 euros per place.
In addition, the six car parks indicated by United We Can have been charging a premium for years, in the hourly rate, which ranges between 66% of the legal maximum allowed and 16%.
In Trujillo’s opinion, “Canarian Coalition governs for a wealthy few and allows the money that people pay to park the car to go, in a disproportionate percentage, to business profit.”
The six car parks indicated by Trujillo are those of Tomé Cano, Puerto Escondido, Avenida de Anaga, Puente Serrador, Plaza Weyler and Estadio.
These car parks, together with the one located on Ramón Y Cajal street, are the seven that the City Council has required to lower rates that exceed the legal maximum.
The Ramón y Cajal parking lot is not included in the UP calculation because it paid the canon for 47 years at the beginning of the concession, adds the note.
The amount paid was an average of 28,019 euros per year, that is, 60.2 euros per place per year.
United We Can has denounced that, during the next 20 years, Santa Cruz will lose more than 24 million euros for having set parking fees “ridiculously low because the Canary Coalition preferred that this money go to increase business profits, rather than to the municipal coffers ”.
