The City Council of La Laguna has informed this Thursday of the completion of the expropriation file, in less than a year, which allows start the works of the first phase of the replacement of the Las Chumberas urbanization, in such a way that the works will begin “imminently“.
Mayor, Luis Yeray Gutierrez, has announced this Thursday at a press conference a new that you have described as “historical for the municipality“as a result of the effort of the local government to solve the situation of residents who suffer serious structural damage to their buildings and that”They have been waiting for the administration for more than 11 years with their homes propped up“.
The mayor recalled that, since the arrival of the new government group to the Consistory in June 2019, responding to this situation had become the “goal number one“.
Thanks to this effort, it has reported that the corporation has already concluded the expropriation file to be able to occupy the blocks of the first phase, which “will allow start demolition, redevelopment and building“.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez has celebrated with the first deputy mayor, Rubens Ascanio, and the councilor for Urbanism, Santiago Pérez, that the municipal government has achieved unblock acting in just nine months, despite the current health crisis situation.
He also recalled that it is the first step in this process, since now it is time to start negotiations with the rest of the public administrations involved in order to develop the pending phases.
For now, the mayor of Urbanism has affirmed that no incidents are foreseen that delay the start of the works because only the approval of Intervention and the approval by the local Government Board of the expropriation file, which implies an expense of about three million euros and of those the municipal company Muvisa will be in charge.
Subsequently, the contract will be signed with the UTE initially awarded the work and there will be a period of 20 days to take possession of the properties.
Currently, as he explained, only two of the more than 160 dwellings in this first phase remain occupied, but already has the judicial authorization for eviction and has guaranteed that “no one is going to stay on the street.”
The three representatives of the parties that make up the municipal government thanked the technical and political effort made to unblock the action and the “infinite patience that neighbors have had in this matter,” Rubens Ascanio pointed out.
“Not even in the worst health and economic crisis, the City Council has stopped thinking about Las Chumberas“, also highlighted the councilor for Social Welfare, who has stressed that for the council the” central axis has always been to provide a solution to the 600 affected families of La Laguna. “
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