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subscription. PALMA The Ministry of Defence and the Municipality of Palma have agreed to build 831 Housing Protection official in the grounds of Son Busquets, which supone half of the 1668 previstas THE CONVENTION signed between the two institutions in 1998, so this will allow the former military barracks have a population of 2,500 residents, half of the 5,000 originally planned.
This was explained in a press conference the mayor of Palma, Aina Calvo, who said that the municipal proposal, which has been accepted by the Ministry headed by Carmen Chacón, provides triple the land available for equipment in Son Busquets , going from 5,900 square feet in the General Urban Plan to 16,800, so that this area will provide a training facility, a sport, a cultural and health.
For its part, the Councillor for Planning, Yolanda Garvie, stressed that the 10 hectares, 25 percent will be green area (25,000 square meters) while 17 percent reserved for equipment (17,000 square meters). Thus, stressed that has been reduced by 31,000 square meters, the land for development, respect the original agreement, whereby the Ministry of Defence military demolished the homes of Príncep Baluard and Palma Consistory agreed to reclassify the use of Busquets headquarters are in order to build 1,668 homes and 30,000 square feet free of tertiary.
With the new agreement reached between both institutions, Garvi stressed that housing density decreases, which will go from 150 to 75 apartments per hectare, whereas, by contrast, will double the area devoted to tertiary uses (offices and shops), reaching 70,000 square meters , compared to 35,000 under the General Urban Plan. Thus, Garvi emphasized that the offices will avoid you having to locate in industrial estates, but in Busquets are mixed and residential uses with the administration, also preventing that this area has only homes.
however, said the number of occupied dwellings more than half of the 10 hectares, while the rest will consist of facilities, green spaces and areas for tertiary use (commercial and sports facilities, tourism and administrative).
Specifically, explained that the 188,000 meters square of urbanization initially referred to, have declined 31,000, and are therefore 157,000, of which 70,000 will be allocated to tertiary and uses the rest for residential use.
Another major new agreement is that the Defense Ministry will assign to the Town Hall on 15 percent of the homes, which will allow the City Council put available for 180 of the 831 citizens VPO to be built in Son Busquets, while also manage 8,500 square meters for equipment and tertiary uses.
About 1,100 claims
Garvía said that the agreement reached with the Ministry of Defense is the result of the nearly 1,100 claims that were raised against the Special Plan to Reform Interior (PERI) of Son Busquets made in 2006. In this way, announced that it will draft a new period for this area of \u200b\u200bEixample de Palma, for which the City will meet with affected neighborhood associations, in order that this project has the "widest possible participation."
The Planning Councillor hoped that this year, the full City Council to approve the new PERI unanimously by all groups in 2011 to begin the processing of development projects Busquets Son of to face as soon as possible to begin the work, whose sponsor is the Ministry of Defence.
For its part, the first mayor welcomed the agreement reached with defense, taking into account that, in principle, the City was required to comply with the agreement reached between the Ministry and the Consistory in 1998, which was incorporated General Management Plan Urban Palma and by which, Busquets were to be built are 1,668 free housing.
However, he recalled that from the beginning, the current Government of Cort team has worked to achieve growth "sustained and sustainable" in the Eixample, in order to reduce the number of flats are Busquets, despite that the former Defense Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, had already committed to decrease in the number of housing 354 in the former military barracks, which Calvo described as "good news, though not what we expected to hear."
After negotiations "intensive and costly" to the Ministry of Defence where there have been several partners for the different changes of minister, Calvo said that the result has been "extraordinary" and a "victory", considering that the City owed a debt to the central department of the Executive.
however, noted that it remains to define the distribution of residential areas and equipment in Son Busquets, which hoped to have the cooperation of neighbors. Asked if he expects to have the support of PP and UM to approve the new PERI, Calvo said that the improvement achieved is "incontestable" with respect to the initial draft, so it was his "conviction" that all groups will "Agree."
