- Orange training will propose that a campaign be launched in Cartagena so that in exchange for certain incentives, the owners of unused plots will cede their use for a certain time to the City Council, following a technical report on the safety of the land and the need for parking in the zone, and whenever the circumstances so advise, "it is about reducing the impact of the lack of places in some saturated areas of Cartagena, and take advantage of spaces that in some cases are in poor condition, to offer a municipal service", explains the spokesman for Citizens in Cartagena, Manuel Padín
The shortage of parking in the center of Cartagena, in the Ensanche and in some areas saturated with the coast has led Citizens to take another step in their plan to combat the abandonment of unbuilt land and propose in the next session A campaign will be held so that through an agreement, the City of Cartagena will be able to transfer unused land for a certain period of time in exchange for incentives to the owners, "which could save them the payment of the IBI during the years of assignment", explained the spokesman of the orange training, Manuel Padín, who argues that "our idea is not only that the PSOE Government wait for the interested parties to arrive but that they actively involve themselves and contact the property of those strategically more interesting plots to propose the cession and inform them of the conditions, that is to say, previous technical report of security of the land and need of parking in the area, and as long as the
circumstances so advise. "
"In Cartagena there are lots of disused lots, some unhealthy, and there is a lack of parking, with this measure we kill several birds with one stone, with our proposal we directly benefit the neighbors in environments where there are serious difficulties to park," the spokesperson sums up.
Cs will propose a pilot plan in Cabo de Palos
There is a very specific case in the area of ​​Cabo de Palos, where many hotel and trade entrepreneurs have been asking for the adaptation of several lots to enable parking, "as he told us, some of the owners of these private lands would already have He expressed his agreement with this use ", said Manuel Padín after meeting today with the businessmen, Dionisio García, owner of La Tana restaurant and Jorge Busquets, manager and owner of several establishments in Cabo de Palos: both have shown willingness to collaborate.
"The City Council could well start this campaign here as a pilot plan and extend the campaign little by little to the rest of the saturated areas of the municipality," says Manuel Padín.
The Cs spokesman explains that "the objective of this campaign is to encourage owners of unused or even abandoned private lands to cede parcels for a period of more than a year to be preferential parking areas, the incentive for them It is clear, the Consistory would be responsible for cleaning up the site, saves maintenance costs and pay for example, a payment equivalent to the IBI while the agreement is in force, since you can not rebate or exempt the payment of the IBI because it is not contemplated in none of the cases of the Law of Local Taxes ".
"We can even assess the possibility of generating jobs linked to the surveillance of these spaces, and of transferring the use to a third party that could be a neighborhood collective or association," Padín proposes.
"It is about finding formulas to improve the image of Cartagena and increase municipal services, the PSOE has it very easy, this proposal is already underway in other municipalities such as Cádiz, Alicante, Orihuela or Badajoz and has similar agreements at hand. They have started up in Torre Pacheco, San Javier, or in Pilar de la Horadada, they just have to adapt them to Cartagena. "
On the other hand, Citizens will also ask that this issue be regulated in the new municipal ordinance on lots that has already been approved by the Governing Board, "many municipalities have included in their ordinances an article to regulate all the details of this public-private compensation, we especially like the wording that has been done in some territories of Alicante ".
In those cases where the creation of a car park is not recommended, Ciudadanos reminds that it is worth exploring other options to generate new recreational, cultural, leisure, sports or urban gardens.
Plan of Shock against abandoned lots
With this action, Ciudadanos advances in its strategy to effectively combat the proliferation of abandoned unbuilt lots, especially privately owned ones.
Some of the key points of the agreement promoted by the orange training in the Plenary session on October 3 was the preparation of an official register or census of plots, (the FAVCAC has counted 200 abandoned plots), the creation of a specific ordinance, the update of the street cleaning ordinance of 1987 and that of compulsory building, the material and human reinforcement of the area of ​​Urbanism that manages the disciplinary and cleaning files, and the exponential hardening of the sanctions for the vandals and also for the owners who do not comply with their cleaning obligations after several requirements.
Cs also requested 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 hygienic-sanitary conditions due, and the design of aggressive information and prevention campaigns.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena