The Council of Regidores of the National District approved the change of land use In 14 blocks around the Quisqueya Stadiumin it Ensanche the faithby “special use zone”, which according to the commission that studied the project, will allow the development of that area.
The decision was taken at the request of the General Directorate of National Assets and the Bank of Development and exports (Bandex) to the Mayor’s Office. Both entities are the owners of the land, according to the report read in Friday’s session.
Giancarlo Vega, president of the Territorial Planning Commission of the Council of Regidoreshe said that also housing owners in the area were requesting the change of land use that allows them to generate the conditions so that in the future present some type of project.
“To this day, the only thing that is being known are the rules, the norms imposed by the city. Beyond the owner of a perimeter or property, the city is empowered, it has constitutional powers under the Law 176-07 to regulate the space, what is buildable and what is not buildable in the city and what is the vocation or not of a space, “he said.
He clarified that the change does not imply densities or other measures, but only to establish an area with potential for a better use of that territory and clarified there can be no project proposal if there is no regulation that governs in that sense what is buildable or not in any polygon of the city.
On his side, Elizabeth Mateo, general secretary of the Mayor’s Office, reported that the project was subjected to public views in which they participated together of neighbors, merchants and other interested parties in the area.
He clarified that it is a process that has been known since October of last year and that the Administration has given a legal course to culminate with the process that has been the approval in the change of land use.
“In that partial plan, the Urban Planning Department has the work of defining what are the regulations that apply to that environment and what could be done and what could not be done there to establish parameters. That is, that is going to Allowing the administration to take control of what could be done there or not to do, which is something very positive for the city. “
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Eleven of the 30 Regidores They left the Chamber during the approval of the new regulations claiming that the project was left on the table because there were processes that had not exhausted their procedure.
The remaining 22 Regidores They were from the modern revolutionary party and everyone decided to raise their hands to approve the project.
The Regidores who left were the representatives of the Dominican Liberation Party, of the Force of the People and two independents.
Nerys Martínez, of the people’s force said in the room that the public views that were made was with the boards of neighbors who respond to the interest of the modern revolutionary party, but that we had to consult other surrounding entities such as the Board of Trustees that directs the Zone, to the owners of baseball teams, CEDIMAT, Public Health, to the Reform Party, among others.
“That land has been developed as a sports field with all the conditions and for having and that is what is happening to us, president. And from you not to obtain our application, I ask you permission to withdraw from the session because I do not want to witness Of the illegalities that here as regulators we are committing, “said the governor.
While the spokesman of the same party, Jairo Doñé, said that they consulted the representatives of Bandex and that the explanation they gave him was that in the area there was a specific project, but in the future.
“What happened today (Friday) in this session is that the local municipal government decided People and that people do not know what is going to really do with that land, “he said.
