Cartagena, Thursday, April 11.
The neighbors of the neighborhood of Santa Lucia demand the reactivation of the works of the Plaza de la Constitución, the recovery of the project to reform the Plaza de Molina in the main access to the fishing town, put a brake on the new wave of robberies that suffer, and the execution of a subsidiary cleaning file for some privately owned lots completely abandoned.
Cs Cartagena has insisted that the portion of the surplus of 2018 that is not used for debt repayment and the payment of invoices to suppliers has to be invested mainly in neighborhoods and councils that need it most, such as Saint Lucia, "we estimate that if the margin for local investment remains as in other years, Cartagena should be able to allocate more than two million euros to Financially Sustainable Investments ".
In addition, Cs wants to implement a comprehensive action plan, with an effective search of European and state aid, which includes the rehabilitation of the façade profile of the town to turn it into a true maritime and fishing town full of charm.
Citizens has traveled with the neighbors the most conflictive areas of the neighborhood for those who demand attention from public administrations, especially by the Port Authority and the City of Cartagena.
The president of the Association of Neighbors, David García, along with other members of the board, accompanied the spokesman of the liberal party in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, to the Plaza de la Constitución, "we find another square unused and gutted by the City Council from more than four months ago, it was charged to the investment of the participatory budgets, another coexistence space destroyed by the sloppy planning of the government team, "said Padín.
The neighborhood committee went from this place to the Plaza de Molina, "a large public space in which there has been no action since the nineties and for which it has been promised, since the PP Government stage, a comprehensive reform to turn it into a focus of attraction for visitors and tourists and that 30 years later still with the cracked furniture ", laments Manuel Padín who has reported that for this square there is" a project that surely accumulates dust in a drawer of the San Miguel Building ".
"In the surroundings of this area a letter of presentation of the neighborhood of Santa Lucia, there are completely abandoned private premises and lots that are a source of unhealthiness and project an image of neglect that does not deserve this neighborhood," said the Liberal spokesman.
On the other hand, neighbors have reported that in recent weeks have increased thefts in homes and robberies in the street, and are collecting the necessary information to transfer it to different forces and security forces, especially the National Police.
The neighbors want a response to take place as soon as possible before the situation of citizen insecurity gets worse.
The neighborhood president has also specified that the neighborhood needs a sports area on a municipal plot or in some that we have already agreed with Adif its use, "to prevent kids from jumping the fences, and sneak into the school to play football "and a commitment to the local, regional and national promotion of the Dársena de Santiago, where the Saint arrived, and work in the Castillo de Los Moros.
Regarding the project of the urban beach in Santa Lucia of ANSE, the Neighborhood Association of Santa Lucia has regretted that no one invited them to be present at the presentation of this idea in the meeting that took place in the Palace Hall.
Projects of the Port Authority, abandoned
Cs has been able to know from the neighbors that the five projects for the improvement and activation of urban public spaces in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia, promoted by Port Authority and Cultural Factory and in whose drafting the neighbors were involved throughout the year 2018, have been completely forgotten by the public administrations.
The Association of Neighbors thus disclaims the recent statements by sources of the Authority who claimed that they had launched those on which the Port had powers, such as the project 'Run' or the project 'Vitreous', "the neighborhood collective we he informs that it is not true, that the works referred to by the Authority to justify that he has done something are small specific actions that were carried out before the projects were drafted, "clarifies the spokesman for Cs Cartagena.
In February 2018 and under the impulse of former port president Antonio Sevilla, the APC and the Cultural Factory convened a contest of ideas to which nearly twenty urban designers and architects presented themselves.
Five projects were selected and for ten months, technicians from both entities, the winning authors and the residents of the neighborhood specified and defined the work to be done;
the financing of those located in the port domain would be the responsibility of Puertos del Estado, which was to start executing them in January 2019, for the rest the search for private resources was envisaged with the collaboration of the City Council and the Community.
Ciudadanos is committed to recovering them, "they will be part of our electoral program, the projects are done, they are there waiting for the political impulse to put them in motion and to make good the work done by the neighbors and the promoters of the ideas so that So much illusion and so much effort is wasted ".
The five projects
Chirrete Proyect, a project for the implementation of a brand that connects Santa Lucia with the cultural and tourist routes of Cartagena.
Vitreous Project, an integral proposal whose objective is to recover, value and disseminate the cultural heritage (material and immaterial) of the Santa Lucía neighborhood.
The neighborhood between seams, urban rehabilitation interventions after the detection of the most degraded points in the neighborhood.
And Frascolor, a mural painting on the façades of the Museum of Glass to enhance the relevance of this property and its value.
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena