The neighborhood group wheelie that opposes the initiative of the Buenos Aires government to transform an avenue into a linear park this Tuesday he asked the legislators of the City of Buenos Aires to accompany his position, when it transpired that the management of Horacio Rodriguez Larreta A bill is being drafted to achieve the completion of the work, which will be sent to the local Parliament in the coming days.
“We learned that the legislators of the ruling bloc would be discussing a bill to ‘solve’ the legal problem and try to move forward with the false linear park,” said the neighbors who formed a neighborhood collective after the announcement by the Buenos Aires administration to take lanes of Honorio Pueyrredón Avenue to set up a recreational space.
In this sense, they considered, in a statement released to the press, that “the main problem is the legitimacy of the initiative, that is, the lack of social license and the strong rejection generated in the neighborhoodfor their negative consequences on the quality of life of those of us who live in that area of Caballito and Villa Crespo“.
“Legislators and legislators, all the conditions are given for this conflict to be resolved in favor of our quality of life. They have the possibility of demonstrating that they really are representatives of those who voted for them and not mere actors who respond to party discipline or hidden interests. “, they assured in the statement.
Y demanded that “they do not validate the destruction of Honorio Pueyrredó avenueAnd listen to the thousands of people who demand the definitive cancellation of this project”.
Strictly speaking, the work was stopped in February by a court ruling that gave rise to an injunction filed by the SOS Caballito neighborhood association, which denounced that the Buenos Aires government failed to comply with the previous instances of citizen participation that are mandatory in these cases, such as carrying out an audience.
Faced with this judicial blockade, the Executive analyzed the possibility of modifying, through a bill, the current regulations regarding the uses of the avenue in question, in order to advance with the idea of transforming the public layout.
At the same time, he began with a new design for the linear park, for which he summoned the legislators of the ruling party in order to know their opinions.
For the neighbors, “they must convene a work table between the Government and the community, to build on the consensus the new green spaces of Caballito”, in reference to the alternative proposal prepared by the neighborhood group that promotes the creation of a space green of about 15 hectares in a nearby railway land.
