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- Citizens will take to the Plenary a plan of shock against this phenomenon where it proposes the elaboration of a census, the creation of a specific ordinance, to reinforce the area of ​​Urbanism that manages these files, and the aggressive hardening of the sanctions for the owners who fail their obligation after several requirements
The residents of the neighborhood of San Antón will be concentrated next September 14 to protest the unhealthy situation of some lots in the area, and to demand the City Council to act.
According to the communiqué that the neighbors have sent today to the municipal groups, between Recoletos and Bravo streets, there is a fenced plot full of weeds and dirt and they report that it has even been used by some people for animal husbandry.
The Association of Residents of San Antón has explained in his writing that this plot is only 20 meters from the new health center, so it is a must for many neighbors.
In the plenary of July 2018, to questions of CTSSP, the local spokesperson of the PSOE, Obdulia Gómez, explained that at the end of October of 2017 a file was initiated for the cleaning of this privately owned lot during which it could be known that the owner was a construction company that had become extinct and could not be located.
The socialist spokesperson informed that after consulting the Land Registry, and the payment of the IBI, it could not determine the current ownership of the plot and resolved to initiate a subsidiary execution procedure, but that could not start until a municipal technician of Urbanism I went back on vacation and made the mandatory technical report to determine the work to be done and its cost.
"This administrative journey gives us an idea of ​​the extent to which it is necessary to undertake a census of vacant lots throughout the municipality to identify those who are in deplorable conditions and thus expedite the procedures for sanctions and cleaning, also in housing and local in a state of neglect, "said the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena that recalled that at the last regular session his group presented a battery of questions prior to a motion to be presented at the next plenary session to stand up" to the unhealthy outbreaks and the rat nests that plague the center, the neighborhoods and the provincial councils of Cartagena ".
Specifically, Cs will urge the City Council to order the realization of a census, strengthen the area of ​​Urbanism that manages this kind of files and undertake a specific and continuous campaign of inspection of private lots throughout the municipality.
In addition, it will propose a study to analyze the economic and logistic feasibility of reserving a budget line every year and hiring an external company specializing in the management of cleaning in abandoned and dangerous private property lots in Cartagena.
On the other hand, will ask the creation of a specific ordinance of fencing and cleaning of land where the sanctions are hardened, in some municipalities reach 10,000 euros while in Cartagena only reaches 600 euros "so to some owners they come to mind, the only legal reference we have at the municipal level is an old ordinance of 1984 that still speaks in pesetas and describes that serious faults will be sanctioned with fines of up to one hundred thousand pesetas, "laments Manuel Padín who also announces that a Full update of the urban cleaning ordinance to address many other cleaning problems that the municipality has.
Finally, Cs will request that information be included on the municipal website so that the citizen knows the procedure and the necessary requirements to denounce the existence of a site that does not meet the sanitary and hygienic conditions due.
"After decades of neglect and political indifference, it is time to stand firm with this issue and not only react when neighbors exploit a phenomenon that generates public health problems, fire risk, damages social coexistence due to problems of illegal occupation , and disfigures the city and our neighborhoods, "says Padín.
No subsidiary execution order has been executed since 2015
At the last plenary session, Ciudadanos reviewed the actions taken by the City Council since the beginning of the legislature to end abandoned lots.
Manuel Padín asked about the number of administrative procedures that have been initiated in our City Council for the cleaning of lots of the municipality, the amount of sanctions have been imposed for violating the urban cleaning ordinance, and the number of subsidiary execution orders.
Obdulia Gómez said that in 2016 702 administrative files related to the cleaning of abandoned lots and properties were started, in 2017 there were 729, and in 2018 until now 384. The orange spokesman criticizes that the most important fact was not given: how many of those files had been resolved, "initiate we can initiate thousands of files, but we are interested in knowing the degree of effectiveness of this Government, that is, how many of them served to clean the area."
"What was clear to us is that since 2015 only two subsidiary execution orders worth 5,000 euros have been carried out and none was for an abandoned lot," said Manuel Padín, who acknowledges that the issue is complex. "In the city of Murcia, about 1,000 records are opened each year for the cleaning of plots of land and some 50,000 euros are spent annually through an external company, that is to say, that in four years Murcia is left close to 200,000 euros in subsidiary investments that will be returned by the owners, and in Cartagena only 5,000, with these data, no one should miss the critical situation we are experiencing.
A complex issue
The orange spokesman recalls that the cleaning, maintenance and fencing of lots is mandatory according to art.
110 of Law 13/2015, of March 30 of Territorial and Urban Planning of the Region of Murcia, and claims to be "aware that these actions of the public administration in the private sector are very slow and complicated, delaying an authorization judicial up to two years, and at other times find the owners becomes an odyssey.
Plan for temporary use of building sites
Citizens is also working on a complementary strategy, before the delay to tackle the problem and plans to propose to the City of Cartagena to launch a project to give temporary use to the hundreds of lots that exist in the municipality.
"This kind of projects are already being carried out successfully in several Spanish cities where provisional uses are being made in unbuilt plots until the final destination of the land is clarified, although it is obvious that previously the legal reports necessary to guarantee must be gathered the project".
For Manuel Padín, "it's worth trying to end those black holes and generate new leisure, cultural, leisure, sports, or urban gardens, and for this we have to take advantage of the wording of the General Plan of Urban Planning so that to allow residential actions in urban land, it is foreseen the concession of temporary licenses for other uses ".
"Regarding privately owned lots, our City Council could be a mediator between the property and the neighbors and reach an alternative use agreement, of a provisional nature, until the owners of the plots are ready to undertake their projects" , exposes Manuel Padín.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena
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