Granadilla de Abona takes the first steps to create an environmental assessment body. The Plenary unanimously approved the proposal to modify the organic regulation. With this, it lays the foundations for this body to exercise the powers of environmental assessment of local plans, programs and projects, based on their environmental protection and sustainability.
The Councilor for Urban Development, Rubén Casañas, argues that this is an “important step” for Granadilla de Abona “because progress is being made in the creation of an instrument that will accompany urban development and promote the preservation of the environment and sustainability criteria” . This body will accompany urban development and the implementation of activities, “ensuring that it is sustainable and inclusive, essential for the protection of the environment, and providing tools to incorporate criteria in strategic decisions through the evaluation of plans, programs and projects before of its approval, from the very phase of its design”.
Casañas emphasizes that this instrument will allow the implementation of various projects and urban plans “of significance for the development of the municipality.” It will facilitate the forecast of possible effects on the environment “sufficiently in advance to identify and correct them adequately”. In addition, he points out, the relevant projects and plans for the development of Granadilla de Abona will be streamlined “which, otherwise, could suffer a delay in their execution, since it would depend on the resolution of other administrations.”
The human team that will make up the Granadilla Environmental Assessment Body (OEAG) will have a maximum of five professionals and specialists in matters such as economists, jurists, geographers, environmentalists and architects.
Among its powers is to prepare the technical analysis and environmental assessment on the detailed management of the General Plan; study the municipal plans or programs whose authorization corresponds to the City Council and the environmental impact of the projects provided for in the Land Law, as well as in the Environmental Assessment Law.
