The commitment of the Municipal Planning Department of Santa Cruz to give priority to the modifications of the current General Management Plan faced with the processing of the new planning, it has already taken its first steps, by ordering Gestur to initiate the procedures to convert the Special Plan of The Little Teresitas in a punctual modification of the PGO of 2005, with the aim that, in a year and a half, it will be possible to act on the beach front by developing sanitation, lighting or promenade.
This was advanced yesterday by the Councilor for Urban Planning, Guillermo Díaz Guerra, in the Control Commission in which he appeared at the request of Cs and PSOE, to report on the future of the new General Plan once the contract with the company in charge of its drafting, after delivering the progress document. This type of punctual modifications, as pointed out by the first deputy mayor, have a shorter processing time and will speed up the detailed planning of the city.
“Last week we already spoke with Gestur, author of the Las Teresitas Plan, to inform him that, in a matter of weeks, the task would be outlined so that it could be transformed into a specific modification of the 2005 plan, and in a year and a half, have a plan to act on the beach.”
Díaz Guerra, who insisted that work on the new planning will not stop, defended that the specific modifications will serve, mainly, to free up land for the construction of housing in the city. “There are blocks in Santa Cruz that cannot be waiting for a General Plan, because what happened last time could happen, that a court might knock it down. They deserve a detailed order that satisfies putting more square meters of housing on the market, because we cannot continue with the current escalation of prices”, he said.
Thus, the mayor of Urban Planning called on all owners to make land available to people, “so that they come to live in Santa Cruz.” In addition, he assured that conversations are already under way with large land holders, “to whom we are going to promote their plans, with specific modifications, such as, for example, Cepsa, whose management will surely be solved with a modification of the 2005 planning, a once we incorporate all the insular plans”.
Likewise, the first deputy mayor pointed out that another large bag of soil, the largest, is the slopes of the city. “If the developers come up with a proposal that is going to put more land on the market, such as, for example, in the rear of Residencial Anaga, we are going to promote the necessary modifications”, he defended. According to Díaz Guerra, this way of working will allow “within two years” there will be land on the market for protected or public housing. “Our intention is to process all the modifications that put land for housing in the city,” he insisted.
From the opposition the management of the General Plan was described as “failure”, and more specifically the outsourcing policy, “which has failed in each and every one of the outsourced processes”.
