2024-02-28 03:30:00
The project of Mayor Walter Cortés for declare economic and housing emergency In Bariloche you will have a new opportunity today, after a busy round of meetings with opposition councilors in the search for votes to avoid a new setback, like the one last Thursday.
Cortés and his collaborators agreed to review the text, They assimilated some of the suggestions expressed in writing by JSRN, including Bariloche and other blocksand yesterday at the last minute they were going to send them a “reformulated” project, waiting to get the desired eight votes.
The extraordinary session that was held last week for the same purpose failed due to lack of quorum. Six of the eleven councilors decided not to appear, with criticism of the content of the project, to “the lack of a government plan” to support it and also to the hostile presence of some union activists, willing to pressure for approval.
The president of the Council, Gerardo del Río (PUL) said yesterday that the agreement was on track, although he did not want to provide details on the terms or the points reviewed.
The emergency has an economic chapter, which enables the Executive to make direct contracts, promotes the review of the transportation contract and enables efforts to refinance the municipal debt, among other points. Also includes a long section on urban planningin order to expedite the approval of new private ventures, with the condition that they contribute land to carry out social subdivisions.
Friday and also Yesterday there were feverish contacts between Cortés and the opposition councilors to evaluate possible changes. In that negotiation, the Chief of Staff, Héctor Leguizamón Pondal, was sidelined in the last hours, for reasons that were not revealed.
The president of the JSRN bloc, Natalia Almonacid, said yesterday afternoon that they made some written contributions and were waiting to see which ones had been accepted by the ruling party. “We don’t have the reformulation yet,” she said.
As detailed, in the economic emergency they aspire to withdraw “all those things that the mayor can already do and does not need an emergency declaration. For example the rnegotiation of the urban transport contract, or the hiring of temporary personnel”.
Almonacid said including that in the ordinance is unnecessary. “It is as if the mayor wanted to make us responsible for decisions that he has the power to make on his own.“said the councilor.
The They put a bigger magnifying glass on the housing issue, since the emergency clears up current legislation to favor entrepreneurs, with permits and licenses that do not exist until now. According to Almonacid, they made a “superior” proposal in writing, with the aim of guaranteeing that the approval of parameters for new lots can be accelerated, but always go through the Council as a final instance for approval.
One tool would be to commit to giving “urgent treatment” to these projects in the Deliberative, with a period of 45 days.
He said that it seemed to them controversial that in the original text a exemption for developers from the obligation to cede ecological reserve areas and green spacesas has been legislated for years in the Code, in order to expand the quotas intended to solve the housing demand.
The opponents proposed “a more careful wording” and it was well received, but they hope to see it in the project that they will discuss today at the table.
Among other modifications They suggested eliminating the Lago Moreno delegation and also the northern slope of Cerro Otto from the future lots promoted., which concentrate the areas of greatest environmental fragility. According to Almonacid, the ruling party accepted this change.
They also asked to legislate with greater precision the scope of capital gains, that is, the transfer of land in favor of the municipality (or the performance of works) to which private parties are obliged when they obtain authorization for new lots. “It is something quite complex, the urban planning of the city cannot be resolved in four days,” said Almonacid.
Leandro Costa Brutten, president of the Including bloc, also expressed his willingness to meet today if his observations are accepted. He said that they made technical proposals and if they appear in the reformulation they will “evaluate and accompany them.”
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