The conflict in Sicardi and Garibaldi due to the opening of streets in sectors affected by wetlands this morning threw another chapter of tension when residents summoned in good quantity stood up before the advance of the machines and prevented the tasks that were planned for that area of the city from continuing. Town.
Today’s day began heatedly after the presence of another truck full of rough materials to be dumped on tracts of land at the height of 19 and 670 was detected in the neighborhood. As they described, it was a “huge truck with double trailers that began to dump rough on one of the streets they want to open”.
As expressed this week, the residents oppose the opening of streets ordered by the municipality. They argue that the neighborhood priority is to protect the wetlands and therefore the biodiversity, nature and environment that characterizes that sector of the City.
So much so that today, in a new day of tasks, they opposed the work in the place. In this regard, they prevented the passage of backhoe loaders, so the tasks could not continue, at least until this noon.
“There is a provincial law and a municipal ordinance that not only does not authorize these works, but also prohibits them completely,” the inhabitants of the area argued again.
In the midst of the tension, the residents held a new meeting shortly before noon where they read and analyzed municipal reports on the tasks planned for today around the conflict lands. In this sense, they objected that it is probable that there is no environmental impact report for carrying out such works either.
Yolanda, a neighbor folded to the claim, said that “the trucks returned to throw rough in the streets, we opposed them to enter again.” “It’s a protected landscape, it’s prohibited,” she explained.
“We are processing an appeal for protection because the only thing that can protect us is the judicial system,” he commented on the next steps regarding the conflict.
The woman denounced that the workers “first marked out streets 17 to 19 bis and 670 to 673.” “From the Municipality they know that there is a provincial law and an ordinance that can be built up to 670”. According to the woman, in the place “there is a real estate business.” On the other hand, she criticized the municipal argument that indicated that “the opening of streets is to communicate to the neighbors, because there are no neighbors here.”
After the conflict, 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 the connectivity of the sector.”
