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La Xunta not allow lifts to expropriate land for rehabilitation areas outside municipal News

Today in La Voz, a very bad news for our neighborhood. From concello has facilitated the possibility of installing elevators, the regional government now puts a significant barrier for those buildings that no agreement is reached with owners of spaces, where is the support of people:

"Although an ordinance adopted by the City Council in March 2009 enables local government to expropriate the land needed to provide elevators to buildings of the city that do not have them, their application is encountering more obstacles than expected. And it seems that in some cases, may be insurmountable.

From the Department of Rehabilitation who heads the nationalist Mario López Rico, explained that the City only has a free hand to seize when the buildings are located in Areas of Integrated Rehabilitation (ARI) or Pepri area (Old Town and Fisheries), but not in other areas of the city, where the regional government needs to declare renewal areas in order to proceed to expropriation.

This situation has eleven buildings in the city, already have asked the City Council for permission to seize a few square meters of shop space to install elevators and whose cases are still blocked, some for over a year and a half. And the Xunta warns that this will continue. Because if the City Council, as one of the lawyers who have advised neighboring communities, understand that the Law of Housing defend the possibility to expropriate commercial land to install lifts, Xunta not think so.

point from the Galician government that Article 70 of the Act, which find shelter requests raised by the City limits the declaration of renewal actions in separate buildings outside of ARI to recover property of architectural value, nuclei coastal and inland traditional, historic and declining urban areas, so they understand that "I buildings for you statement requesting a non SUMMIT I requirements, non é pole may declare Refurbishment '. Or, what is, not allow the City to expropriate land for low trading in these eleven buildings to install elevators.

For its part, the City Council hold the last point of the article, which also marks the law as a priority for the rehabilitation "mellor da accesibilidade as buildings and vivendas" .

Agreement

While clarifying the situation outside the areas rehabilitation, the City has already begun processing the expropriation of two buildings in the Old City, where they need permission from the regional government to expropriate land to low. "