If someone knows – politically speaking – Francisco de la Torre, they will know that he is usually of persistent ideas, and this was not going to be an exception. The construction north of the eastern ring road It is one of the actions defended for years by the mayor and, now, the Environment Commission has made it clear that this idea is still alive.
In fact, the government team of PP and Ciudadanos, together with the non-attached councilor Juan Cassá, have knocked down by 8 votes to 7 the requests of the opposition to shield these grounds of construction and where the Urban Environment Observatory (OMAU) projects the so-called green ring, an ambitious initiative, framed within the Climate Plan that includes the reforestation of 2,000 hectares of land and an investment of 16 million euros that together with the ecological corridors perpendicular to the sea would allow the absorption of almost 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide , which is practically equivalent to half of the city’s CO2 emissions. A green ring that does have the backing of the entire plenary arch and in fact, this has been demonstrated in the municipal commission, with the support of the entire plenary arch in the motions presented by PSOE and Adelante Málaga.
The debate, therefore, has been on the possibility of shielding or not these construction sites. “Let it go ahead (the green ring) as it is and not urbanize”, asked the socialist vice spokesman Begoña Medina, while his counterpart from Adelante Málaga, Paqui Macías, made the government team look ugly: “They make it clear that they don’t give up on that idea. They are missing an opportunity. “
From the municipal government, they insisted on leaving the door open to an urban development action “low impact”, indicated the spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Noelia Losada, who advocated locating a high performance sports center or similar equipment. Susana Carillo, a spokesperson for the local government, spoke along these lines: “We think they can come needs for infrastructures, facilities or some developments in the future and it will be up to the legislation and the competent administrations at that time to analyze whether or not it can be done. “
For his part, the director of the OMAU, Pedro Marín, wanted to recall that both the PGOU of 2011, as well as the Andalusian Plan for Spatial Planning (POTAUM) of 2009, the Urban Agenda of 2015 or the Climate Plan of 2020 “establish a sealing to the urbanization north of the round, that is to say cWith current planning instruments, it is not possible to urbanize“in that area.
The possibility of building in that space came to confront the mayor with the Junta de Andalucía, which ended up rejecting the councilor’s claims to build 480 homes on plots of 500 square meters. De la Torre even proposed these lands to locate the third hospital that will finally rise on the grounds of the Civil.
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