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Opinion CEDMA: «Without a General Plan is it better to live?»

17 October 2018 - 08: 21

Sometimes we get the impression that we are preaching in the desert, because when we warn that the 19 in October the suspension of licenses in Dénia is lifted without a planning in sight, very few people seem to care. But it should -and a lot- because right now it is putting at risk the economic stability of our municipality, as well as the investments, services and infrastructures of this city for the coming years.

Recently, residents of a Denia area protested that they were being charged an URBANA IBI on land that currently lacks this classification due to the absence of planning. For this simple reason, they pay 10 times more than their fair share. When these people protest, and rightly so, the answer they receive from the Municipality of Dénia can not be more laconic: it depends on Catastro. And what does Catastro say? That without planning the soil class can not be changed. And who are responsible for urban planning? Exactly: the City Council. The whiting that bites its tail.

We have been three years, almost four, without too much progress in terms of planning and when it seemed that finally they were going to leave a Transitory Urban Standards, those of Conselleria, the City has managed to delay them. The October 19 suspension of licenses is lifted and next year will expire the environmental phase of the documentation in process. Do they not want to have a plan? Is it that they are not interested?

There are a few questions that arise around this question:

  • 1. If the planning foreseen by the current government team is approved, how many properties would stop paying their IBI as URBAN?
  • 2. How much money would the City Council fail to raise?
  • 3. Can new planning jeopardize budget stability?

Is it possible that the answer to these questions is so obvious and dramatic that it does NOT allow this Corporation to approve a General Plan?

The worst of all this is that it does not affect a few as you might think, rather it affects all of the Dianense taxpayers. It affects Aunt Marieta or Uncle Guillem, retirees, who receive a pension of 800 euros and have a small house in an orange grove for which they have to pay more than 2.000 euros a year for supposed rights that they do not really possess. To you, who now thinks he pays a lot of IBI, maybe they will have to raise it even more to solve this "detriment."

Vice-president of Urban Planning and Infrastructure
Business Circle of the Marina Alta

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