The granting of almost a hundred urban planning licences, allegedly, “arbitrary and prevaricating”as specified in the judicial order issued by the Court of First Instance (former Investigating Court) Number 4 of Arona, by the Governing Board of the City Council between 2006 and 2011, coinciding with the stage in the Mayor’s Office of José Alberto González Reverón (CC), has caused serious problems in the daily life of thousands of residents in the municipality, who today continue to suffer the consequences, without public lighting, with poor sanitation, problems with water connections and unpaved roads.
The granting of numerous licenses in action units without urban management (without the approval of the reparcelling project), in which the promoters did not comply with their obligations to develop and assign public spaces, has generated a complicated panorama that extends throughout the municipality.
Consulted legal sources explain that the consequences of the numerous licenses granted to build are being paid without the promoters, in many cases, fulfilling their part of managing, urbanizing and ceding part of the land. This has caused that land to continue to be private, which prevents the City Council from acting or providing the services that the residents demand.
“The mandatory procedures have not been complied with: once an action unit is defined, the developer is given the right to build, but that right, which will generate benefits, entails obligations that have not been fulfilled here, which which has caused serious problems for those who have bought a home in good faith believing that everything is in order”, affirms one of the experts consulted.
An example of the consequences that numerous communities of owners are suffering is the clogging of the cesspools, which forces them to periodically hire a tank with the consequent spillage for the homeowners. Another example is the impossibility of paving streets by the City Council as it has not received the urbanizations, so for legal purposes these roads are private. Thus, there are buildings in El Fraile connected to the same well and without public lighting as the street is not received. But similar problems affect residential blocks in nuclei such as Valle San Lorenzo, Cabo Blanco, Buzanada, Bebedero, Chayofa, La Camella, Guaza, Cho, La Estrella and Costa del Silencio.
Municipal sources acknowledge that the “disastrous” urban management of CC has left a “very serious” situation and underline the “million-dollar” economic consequences for the public treasury.
They admit that the solution is “complicated”, although a legal formula is being sought that allows all the affected action units to find a global response.
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As this newspaper reported yesterday, the judge has completed the investigation phase of the Arona 2 Case, after investigating the alleged irregular granting of urban planning licenses by the City Council between December 2006 and May 2011. The court order describes 95 administrative resolutions adopted , supposedly, in an “arbitrary and prevaricating” way.
The judicial brief was initially appealed before the judge and later before the Provincial Court, which has dismissed the appeal made by the defenses of the 14 investigated, based on an alleged violation of the guarantees of the rights of their clients, considering, therefore, that the process must continue until the opening of the trial.
The order specifies that “the Governing Board of the Arona City Council granted multiple planning licenses without respecting the established procedures, legally or by regulation, adopting decisions contrary to those that would proceed by law.” The letter details in 84 pages the 95 licenses granted in an allegedly irregular way by the Local Government Board. The majority correspond to major works to construct buildings with unfavorable reports from the Urban Planning Service or without the pronouncement of this body.
