The corporation rejects the three complaints that had been filed against this amendment. The corporation gives green light to the Ordinance on Transparency and Good Governance
The plenary of the corporation has agreedon Monday, by a majority, the final approval of the specific amendment number 19 of land-use planning (PGOU), after rejecting the allegations made by two commercial and the Independent Dealers Association (AICO). The councilwoman of Urbanism, Lourdes Caselles, said that the reports prepared by the municipal architect, the technician of Legal Affairs and the Engineering department agree in rejecting the allegations, and pointed out that the Ministry of Environment has reported favorably on the Environmental Strategic report of this specific amendment. This amendment concerns Article 112 of the General Plan and allows the implementation of large shopping centers in the city. This procedure makes possible the implementation of the planned shopping center in the site. With the majority vote it has been given the green light to the study of the specific modification of the General Plan No. 9, which dates from 2005, by which a block of apartments, pending of execution in Ciudad Patricia are divided into two. This detailed study includes the transfer to the City Hall of about 4,000 square meters of green areas and that will complete the 16,000 square meters of public facilities agreed. With the vote of the majority of the corporation have been solved allegations made by the local groups Citizens (C's) and Compromís-Los Verdes and for a particular Ordinance of Transparency and Good Governance, which has been partially successful and, therefore incorporated into the text, which thus definitively is adopted. Unanimously it has beeen approved the expropriation agreement for the fixing of fair compensation by mutual agreement that has allowed the City Hall to complete the urbanization of the Beniardá Avenue according to the provisions of the General Plan 1990. With the vote of all councillors it has been agreeded that the informative commission of Internal Affairs prior to the regular full session is celebrated on Wednesdays prior to the plenary session with all motions of the political groups and issues or records to be discussed in it. With the vote of the municipal government it has been approved an extra-judicial recognition of credit to pay bills amounting to 32,203.57 euros. It has also been explained the performances that have been done to fulfill the plenary agreement to extend the locker room of the football field Antonio López, and the letter sent to the Generalitat Valenciana about the municipal request to reverse the transfer of the properties of the building Acuarium II. It has also been realized the document submitted by the Association of Relatives and Mental Patients of the Marina Baixa (AFEM) about the agreement reached in the plenary session to support the 'Year of Mental Health'.
Opposition Motions
By the majority it has been approved a proposal by the PSOE for the Youth Information Centre to open in the afternoons and weekends, with qualified personnel linked to employment schemes, for workshops activities for children and youth. Besides it has come forward a motion in the same group as amended by Compromís-Los Verdes, to create a Municipal Office for Social Housing to collaborate with and assist people applying for housing with social rent and those that have for that end. In addition, following an amendment of C's, it will be considered incentives to owners who offer their homes for social rent. With the majority vote a motion of Citizens for Benidorm (CBM) has been approved for the implementation of surveys of satisfaction of municipal services, and whose parameters must be set within a maximum period of three months. The corporation has approved unanimously a motion of C's to promote a 'gourmet' area in seven municipal market stalls that are currently empty. Another motion in the same group has prospered for an expansion of special discounts in municipal services for registered people, studying the implementation of the Citizen Card to access these discounts and see the feasibility of imposing a fee for civil wedding ceremonies at the City Hall and public spaces in the municipality, with a possible exemption for census-. Unanimously a motion of Compromís-Los Verdes has been agreed for a policy development of buying organic products, which do not contain hazardous substances, reused and have less impact on the environment; and promoting good environmental practices including awareness campaigns. With the same result another motion has prospered in the same group for the project 'Voluntariat pel Valencià;people who speak valenciano language to devote an hour a week to talk with people who want to learn this language. This motion has been amended by C's, to boost a similar project for English.
Emergency motion
Outside the agenda, it has been approved unanimously a motion by the local government of the PP for the creation and establishment of various advisory bodies to monitor the measures to be developed in relation to the Plan of Sustainable Urban Mobility (PMUS) and its various action plans. Thus it has agreed to create the Commission of Mobility -formed by municipal technicians, the editor of Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan and the mayor, the Mobility Council, made up of members of the former, by representatives of different political groups and different business and social associations, and by a member of the Nieghbor Council and the Forum of Mobility, involving members of the Board of Mobility and educational and health communities.
