the neighbors asked yesterday to “preserve the protected landscape” / d. ripoll
Neighbors of Parque Sicardi and Villa Garibaldi met yesterday to protest against the opening of streets in the protected landscape area bordering the El Pescado stream. The protesters called for the project to be reversed.
According to Yolanda Olmedo, a neighbor of Sicardi, “they are opening streets beyond the regulations. They already started in the sector from 670 to 673, where it had already been prevented years ago when they tried to carry out these works ”.
A group of neighbors met yesterday early in the morning to “defend the protected space, we know the importance of biodiversity in this area and we seek to preserve it,” they indicated at the meeting they held on 19 and 670.
As Olmedo commented, “by provincial law and by ordinance these works cannot be carried out. However, since last week they began with the works to open the streets. It is not true that the protected landscape is not altered with these works. The Municipality is aware of the ordinance (12,079) and does not respect it”.
Yesterday there was an intense debate and a request to the Commune not to advance with the work in the area and they also made banners to express their opposition to the work.
For its part, the Municipality reported that “the opening of streets ceded to public use is being developed, without affecting the protected area.” And they added that “the opening of Calle 19 between 670 and 672 was recently authorized to improve the connectivity of the residents of a sector of Parque Sicardi, where homes were built for decades past and today requires appropriate road infrastructure.”
Meanwhile, the secretary of Urban Planning of the Commune, María Botta, added that it is a “current” ordinance that was “proposed and approved by this management in 2021” which “prohibits the development of urbanizations in the area because it is of a protected area. She also specified that opening a street “does not imply urbanization, does not affect the protected area and favors connectivity in the sector.”
