All citizens, entities, collectives and associations that wish to do so can supervise, from the 7th of June, the preliminary public consultation document of the General Urban Development Plan of Mijas and present their proposals. "This prior public consultation aims at everyone but above all at the main town planning operators, professional associations, such as the architects', quantity surveyors' and engineers' associations, the Bar Association, etc. And also to the large groups and the most representative associations in this field such as the Association of Developers and Builders of Malaga or neighbourhood associations and neighbourhood councils," explained the Town Planning Councillor, Andrés Ruiz (Cs), on Tuesday.
The City Council intends to give the document the maximum possible coverage. "We are going to publicise it and distribute it through the different electronic media so that it has the greatest information guarantee and, of course, so that everyone can participate, which is one of the objectives, not only of the Town Hall but also of the law," said the Councillor.
You can check this document on the notice board and the municipal web transparency portal www.mijas.es. You have one month from its publication on the 7th of June. And to make your proposals, the Town Hall has set up this email address: nuevoplaneamiento@mijas.es.
"Once we receive all these proposals for a month, we will answer which ones are appropriate or which are not. After that, we have to make a progress report with environmental reports, gender reports, road reports, in other words, what we call sectoral reports," Ruiz added.
Sustainable development
Within a year, this advance, "the backbone of the planning", Ruiz stresses, will be drafted for final approval, a process that could take up to four years. This way is how the Mijas of the future will be outlined. They assure that it includes "sustainable growth, and large green areas to increase the life quality of our neighbours. In short, a more pleasant municipality to live, receive and work, why not." Ruiz concluded that the new Mijas development plan drafting also includes an "increase in sports and socio-cultural facilities, and more connections with the motorway and between urbanisations, giving more structure to the municipality". "The first step is to listen to the citizens, but from the Town Hall, we set the objectives we must aim for when designing this new plan," said the Town Planning Councillor. "We do not want to have a high land use, but to ensure that the structure of the city is maintained and for this, we must carry out a more sustainable development, better interconnecting the town, with each other, with its urbanisations and its urban centres. In addition, we want to support public transport to reduce motor vehicle journeys, give greater importance to pedestrians and cyclists, increase green areas and facilities, among other ideas," he adds.
New features of the new law
Among the new LISTA features is that it establishes a dual system of urban planning that replaces the traditional PGOU. In this way, what we knew, until now, as the General Urban Development Plan is divided into a general Urban Development Instrument now, called the General Municipal Development Plan (PGOM), and an urban development instrument called the Municipal Development Plan (POU). The PGOM will establish the new planning model for the municipality, while the POU will do the same with the detailed planning of the existing urban land.
Finally, the second major LISTA novelty is that "both the PGOM and the POU can now be approved by the Town Councils, without prejudice, of course, to the sectoral reports on the environment, roads, etc. The advantage of the Town Councils having the municipal competence for their approval means that the procedures can be speeded up to a greater extent", concludes Ruiz.
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