They announced it on their social networks last Thursday. A cleaning spree to tidy up the stairs and main streets of Las Moraditas, in the face of what they consider the “laziness” of the City Hall of Santa Cruz as far as the maintenance of its streets is concerned. “On Friday, coincidentally, a team of five people showed up to do a cleaning job. Even so, we decided to continue the action, given that World Cleaning Day is celebrated, and because we understood that it was necessary to launch awareness messages”, they explain from the Platform of United Neighbors for Las Moraditas, promoter of this unique act. “To our surprise -they continue- despite the action of the City Council, and thinking that we were going to clean little, we ended up removing 14 bags of garbage and cleaning a small lot”.
In this protest action, which is the first of many, they assure from the Platform, fifteen neighbors participated, who in addition to cleaning the stairs and main streets, also placed awareness messages in the litter bins and common spaces of the neighborhood. “It is a wake-up call to the City Council because, despite the fact that they tell us that they come to clean three times a week, and one riot a month, today’s action shows that what they are doing is not enough, among other things because only They send one person for the entire neighborhood,” they say from the Platform, which apologized to the neighbors for not being able to reach all the streets of the neighborhood, “we ended up exhausted, we couldn’t.”
Complaints from the neighborhood the purple They were addressed last Thursday at the Control Commission of the Santa Cruz City Council, where Cs requested the appearance of the person in charge of the Ofra-Costa Sur district, Gladis de León, to explain the actions that are being carried out in the neighborhood. According to the councilor, “the district is preparing a statement to resume activities in neighborhood associations next year. In addition, we have commissioned Obras to lay the pavement on Montaña Roja street, and a railing on Chipre street”. She also pointed out that Public Services is being negotiated to see how to put shade on the benches in the square. “It’s a very windy area and we have to assess well what we put on.”
Regarding the demands for parking, León pointed out that “we were looking at the issue of enabling the lower part of the square, as had been said initially, but it is unfeasible that it could be a parking lot, because there can be no movement in and out of vehicles”. He ended by advancing that this year the circular asphalting of Tamaduste Street will be effective.
For her part, the spokeswoman for Cs, Matilde Zambudio, listed the repeated complaints of the neighbors, starting with mobility and the lack of parking, the lack of personnel when it comes to cleaning tasks, the security of private lots , and accessibility.
