The Town Hall of Acentejo’s Victory postpones for the moment the writing of its first General Management Plan (PGO). This long and expensive one will have to be opened at some point, but the local government (PSOE), led by Juan Antonio Garcia Abreuhas found in the punctual and substantial modifications of the Subsidiary Standards of the year 1991 a way faster, cheaper and more efficient to generate new projects that enhance the development of the town.
The victorious mayor acknowledges to EL DÍA that “those minor, or substantial modifications in some cases, allow us to promote the specific development of areas of the municipality.” Does not renounce the PGOwhich, in his opinion, “It should be the tool that helps us order the future development of the town and also to generate more private investment. However, we have been surprised that despite not having the PGO, we have tools that allow us to have three important projects from private investors who want to start working from 2023».
“If this formula of specific or substantial modifications of the Subsidiary Regulations allows us to achieve the objective of promoting private investment and the new projects of public roads or social housingthe PGO, which is a necessary tool, can wait and move forward in a parallel way,” he stresses.
García Abreu appreciates that private investors are paying attention to Acentejo’s Victory to execute their projects: «We will have something, perhaps that we are an administration that walks and that is not paralyzed by bureaucracy. We are well located geographically, just a few minutes from Cross port and from the metropolitan area, if there are no queues on the TF-5, of course.
For the socialist president, the first General Planning Plan for La Victoria It is “a pending subject” Because despite the effort being made to find formulas that guarantee the development of new projects, “the 1991 regulations produce some legal uncertainty and some legal loopholes that make the work of municipal technicians difficult.” For this reason, the PGO It is a goal that is on the horizon, but not immediately.
The victorious Consistory has invested 200,000 euros in a document to modify its legal system
«We have not started the drafting of a new PGO, we have proposed a substantial modification of all the planning. Something similar to a PGO. We have a document prepared, which has not yet been able to be fully and in the future an initial approval of this new local planning could be considered”, advances García Abreu.
For the mayor of La Victoria, “this substantial modification that is being prepared adds to the eight specific modifications that we have been approving in this mandate to enable actions that will be important.”
«An initial document to define the future of the urban planning of La Victoria already exists, it is that substantial modification that has cost us about 200,000 eurosbut elaborate a new PGO would cost much more expensive, would require more years of processing and would force everything to be paralyzed. If we need a square or land for a residence for the elderly, we opt for a specific modification that in a year and a half, in the worst case, allows us to have that suitable land. If we waited to approve a PGO, we would have neither one thing nor the other“, the Mint.
