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- Orange training proposes the development of a registry of plots, the creation of a specific ordinance, the updating of the street cleaning ordinance of 1987 and forced construction, reinforce the area of ​​Urbanism that manages the disciplinary and cleaning records, and the aggressive hardening of sanctions for vandals and also for owners who fail to meet their obligations after various requirements

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According to some neighbors, the PSOE government would have tried to boycott the neighborhood mobilization today by transferring a false accusation to journalists and political groups

Cartagena, Friday September 14-.

The residents of the neighborhood of San Antón have concentrated today to protest the unhealthy situation in about 30 lots in the area, and to demand the City Council to act now.

Especially, the residents denounce the abandonment of two lots between Recoletos and Bravo streets, which are full of weeds and dirt (one of them has been used by some people to raise animals).

This plot, in front of which the protest has taken place, is located a few meters from the new health center, so it is a must for many neighbors.

Neighbors have reported that this morning a truck has removed much of the rubble and garbage that was accumulated in one of the plots, not in the solar annex, and have criticized the PSOE to make calls today to the media and to the rest of the municipal groups announcing a false disconcerting of the neighborhood mobilization, "an issue that concerns us, and for which we will ask the mayor of Cartagena for explanations", Manuel Padín has said.

In the July 2018 plenary session, the local PSOE export spokesperson, Obdulia Gómez, explained that at the end of October 2017, a file was initiated for the cleaning of the site that this morning has been cleaned to avoid protests and that is privately owned.

With the opening of the file it was possible to know that the owner was a construction company that had become extinct and could not be located.

Gomez informed that after consulting the Property Registry, and the payment of the IBI, it could not determine the current ownership of the plot and decided to initiate a subsidiary execution procedure, but that could not start until a municipal planning technician returned from vacations and perform the mandatory technical report to determine the work to be done and its cost.

"Apparently, thanks to local pressure, the procedures have been streamlined in a miraculous way, this is not serious, the City must stop working at the stroke of improvisation to really work on a plan, for example, the one that will present Cs at the next Plenary, "said Manuel Padín.

"This administrative-judicial odyssey gives us an idea of ​​the extent to which it is necessary to undertake our plan to collide with the lots, which includes a census or municipal registry of empty lots throughout the municipality to identify those that are in deplorable conditions, such as San Anton, and streamline the procedures for sanctions and cleaning, "explained the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padin, who recalled that at the last regular plenary session his group presented a battery of questions prior to a motion that will be presented at the next plenary session to face "the unhealthy outbreaks and rat nests that plague the center, the neighborhoods and the deputations of Cartagena."

The orange spokesman has had the opportunity to explain to the neighbors the plan of Cs against this scourge.

In addition to the registry of plots, Ciudadanos wants to strengthen the area of ​​Urban Planning that manages this kind of files, "we can not wait for one or two technicians to return from vacations, we need a specialized team", says Padín who has informed that the orange plan against the sites includes the promotion of 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 logistical feasibility of reserving a budget line every year to hire an external company specialized in cleaning management in abandoned and dangerous lots in Cartagena, as is done in Murcia or Molina of Segura.

Outdated ordinances

On the other hand, Cs requires the creation of a specific ordinance for fencing, cleaning and sanctions on urban sites;

in some municipalities the fines reach up to 10,000 euros as in Zamora while in Cartagena only reaches 600 euros, "or as expressed in the road cleaning ordinance of 1987: 100,000 pesetas," says Padín who adds that they will request the update of this ordinance and the adaptation to current legislation of the ordinance regulating deadlines for forced construction.

Citizen collaboration

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.

No subsidiary execution order has been executed since 2015

Manuel Padín asked, at the last plenary session, about the number of administrative procedures that have been initiated at the City Council for the cleaning of lots in the municipality, the amount of sanctions imposed for violating the urban cleaning ordinance, and the number of subsidiary execution orders.

The PSOE said that in 2016 702 administrative files related to the cleaning of abandoned lots and real estate were initiated, in 2017 there were 729, and in 2018 until now 384. The orange spokesman criticizes that the Government concealed the most important fact: 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.

Alternatives for administrative and judicial delay

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