The Provincial Federation of Construction Entities in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Fepeco) organized this Monday, February 6 at the Taoro High School a working breakfast with the three mayors of the La Orotava Valleyto whom he proposed the implementation of “a comprehensive plan for the recovery and maintenance of the historical heritage of the municipalities of the north of Tenerife». The president of Fepeco, Oscar Izquierdopointed out that this rehabilitation strategy could function as “a focus of attraction for cultural tourism and as a starting point for a route full of attractions from Tacoronte to Buenavista».
Izquierdo showed the mayors Francisco Linares (CC), Adolfo González (PP) and Marco González (PSOE) his conviction that on the island “there are companies prepared and specialized to execute this recovery plan” of buildings and historical spaces to provide them with different uses, such as accommodation, catering businesses or cultural centers. A priority that Fepeco should be complemented by the resolution of the serious mobility problems suffered by the TF-5. About the north highwayIzquierdo added that, in his opinion, the solution involves three actions that he considers compatible and complementary: the third lane and BUS HOV lane, between La Orotava and Guamasa; the announced variant of La Laguna, and the recovery of the proposal to bury the TF-5 as it passes through La Laguna, from Los Rodeos to Padre Anchieta.
“Gran Canaria has a European road network, but Tenerife has roads from an African country”
«It is time for Tenerife. While Gran Canaria has a road network comparable to any European country, the island of Tenerife It has roads from an African country”, said the leader of the construction association, who also showed himself as a firm defender of the “North and South” trains, and of sustainable development that implies “building on what has been built”. . Left said to be “against developmentalism” and ruled that “Canary Islands cannot be Benidorm”.
The Realejos
The royal mayor, the popular Adolfo González, opened the turn of interventions by the leaders, putting on the table the difficulties that city councils encounter in approving fundamental tools for local urban and economic development such as general management plans (PGO). A document that in the realejero case has been reviewed since 2013 with a procedure that has already been ten years old. In his opinion, “the Canary Islands regulations for the planning of the territory are a real ordeal”, which in Los Realejos blocks the development of the La Gañanía industrial estate or the tourist development in “many old houses, farms and farms that are now in disuse” and that could form part of a “great network of hostels throughout the North.”
“The Canarian regulations for land use planning are a true ordeal”
Adolfo Gonzalez highlighted the large number of investments that are planned in the municipality, such as the new sports complex or the recovery of the house of La Gorvorana. And he advocated for recovering the viability of the Northern train project and for insisting on improving socio-sanitary care for dependents and the elderly.
Cross port
The mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, the socialist Marco Gonzálezused his time to emphasize that the tourist city “lives a new era in which there are more works than ever”, both public and private, with a change in trend that means the end of the old high seasons in the colder months, “since for the first time we have had the same occupation in summer and winter.”
“Puerto de la Cruz lives a new era in which there are more works than ever”
Faced with “the complexes of the North” and “the discourses against tourism”, Marco Gonzalez highlighted the importance of actions such as “what will be Tenerife’s swimming pool”, the long-awaited expansion of the Botanical Garden, the recovery of the Taoro hotel, the unblocking of Martiánez beach, the solution for the Iders building or the large number of renovation projects hotel renovation in establishments such as Miramar, San Telmo, Martiánez, Los Príncipes, El Tope or Chiripa, “that is reactivated”. And he stressed his commitment to culture as the “backbone” of all his policies.
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The village mayor, Francisco Linares (CC)closed the meeting with a defense of municipalism and the work of the city councils in the worst moments of the pandemic and the subsequent crisis. “If the town halls had not shown their faces, a social revolution would have broken out in the Canary Islands”he assured. For the nationalist president, “he is concerned that there is already talk of finalizing the liberalization of fiscal rules in 2024, which would mean once again paralyzing municipal resources in the banks. That would be insane, unheard of and inexplicable.», he warned.
Linares advocated “the repeal of the Public Sector Contracts Law so that they let us work. Now we have the possibility of executing works and generating employment but bureaucracy slows us down». He agreed with his realejero counterpart in regretting the delay in the approval of the PGOs, “which cannot take 20 years to process” because investments and projects are lost. He gave as an example that “in La Orotava there are at least ten small hotel projects who are waiting for the PGO, which will not arrive until at least 2024 ».
«The North lacks an organized troop to mark an objective on the target and go all to one»
The Villa “does not ask for beds, it asks for time”since he considers it nonsense that “they give visitors 30 minutes to get to know La Orotava” or that “a million tourists a year pass through the Villa and we are not considered a tourist municipality.” He advocated unity, beyond political acronyms, and recognized that “the North has never been a well-organized infantry army. We have lacked an organized troop to mark an objective on the target and go all to one ». And he again remembered the tails of the TF-5, for whose resolution he asked «an agreed Island Mobility Plan and outside of political disputes. In this we have to take off our party hat and not change everything every four years. Because the citizens are fed up.
