The guidelines of the General Plan for Urban Planning (PGOU) will begin their participation process, after the Plenary Session approves submitting this doccument on public information
The guidelines of the General Plan for Urban Planning (PGOU) will begin their participation process, after the Plenary Session approves submitting this doccument on public information
PRESENTATION OF THE BASIC GUIDELINES FOR THE REVISION OF THE GENERAL PLAN FOR URBAN PLANNING OF CALVIÀ
The Mayor Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, the Deputy Mayor for Tourism, Environment and Urban Planning, Antonio García Moles, and the general director of Urban Planning, Housing and Environment, Jaume Carbonero, have presented this morning the guidelines of the General Plan for Urban Planning (PGOU) that will begin a participation process, after the Plenary Session approves submitting this doccument on public information.
The meeting was also attended by the deputy mayor of Citizen Participation and Youth, Israel Molina, and the general director of the area, Juan Antonio Marcos.
The Town Hall of Calvià, by agreement of the Plenary Session of the 24th of September of 2015, took the decision to initiate the revision of the General Plan for Urban Planning. The reason of this revision, that is part of the agreement, reflects the desire to adapt the land management of the municipality in order to solve existing problems from a general view proposal, beyond the change started earlier to modify punctually the qualification and ground parameters with growth expectations.
The basic guidelines that the Town Hall presents have two purposes:
be a starting point to articulate proposals
motivate and involve the citizen participation
THEREFORE IT IS STARTING POINT, NOT THE ARRIVAL POINT
PGOU BASIC GUIDELINES:
Rehabilitation, Refurbishment and Urban Regeneration
The proposal is a model not based on growth, but in rehabilitation, refurbishment and urban regeneration.
The municipality of Calvia has 3 types of urban settlements:
The historical centres of Calvià and es Capdellà (reactivate urban life)
Tourist resorts
Residential and service areas(Son Bugadelles zone-Urb. Galatzó)
The Plan is not intended to modify the existing territorial development model in Calvià, but the proposal is to work on these consolidated urban areas to mitigate the consequences arising from the fact of such a fast urbanization.
The Plan will not allow new actions involving an urbanizing process of the first lines or in the existing vacant areas. Moreover, as far as it is economically possible, areas will be marked for decongestion in the most saturated coastal areas of the same type than those already done by the Town Council as a pioneer in decongestion actions.
Amend the consequences of climate change
To meet the commitments 20_20 (reach 2020 with a 20% reduction of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere) the General Plan itself should incorporate measures.
The intention is that the Plan has an important environmental component, so environmental technicians will involved in its preparation.
It is the first time that the General Plan will be written with environmental aspects incorporating these measures as basic elements of the a priori formulation and not a posteriori, as usual.
Proposed strategic guidelines:
Incorporation of renewable energies
Energy efficiency in building, houses, etc.
Increase in tree mass in the municipality (especially in tourist areas and Son Bugadelles-Galatzó)
The establishment of a sustainable mobility plan
The improvement and optimization of water consumption
Promoting recycling and waste reuse
Infrastructures
WATER
The municipality of Calvià doesn't need a major intervention in the water channeling network because of losses, as in this sense, it is an efficient municipality. However, the General Plan should solve the current problems of possible flooding in specific areas of the municipality, due to rainwater, especially in areas of the Marina de Magaluf, Son Ferrer and Son Llebre.
A study is being conducted on flooding in areas that could accommodate part of this rainwater. One proposal is to reverse the drainage process of the Marina de Magaluf, with the creation of areas as a rainwater receptacle.
TRANSPORT AND ROADS
The basic lines also propose actions on the road system.
Calvià suffers a historical deficit in public transport and its inhabitants have an almost absolute dependence on private transport. Improvement proposals focus on promoting a cleaner public transport, establishing an intermodal mobility, introduce park and ride car parks, and expand bicycle and pedestrian networks, among others.
Other measures proposed in the basic guidelines are to finish and complete the Passeig Calvia, allowing traveling the municipality from end to end, or slow down motor vehicles on the inside of urban areas (giving priority to residents and services).
Guarantee the right to housing
In the municipality of Calvià there is sufficient ground to do a real housing policy as a result of the Strategic Reserves of Land, however, they have hardly developed after the approval of the Law 5/2008, of 14 May, of urgent actions to obtain land for public housing.
There is an unresolved issue of social housing at affordable prices, and a null existence of protected rental housing, so it is proposed that the Plan includes a comprehensive diagnosis of the current social reality of the municipality to carry out actions for the benefit of groups affected by the housing access difficulty, and in order to respond to the major lacks of equipment and for the identification of social groups in high exclusion risk, including the integration criteria of gender equality in urban development.
Citizen participation
In the Plenary Session of March there will be a proposal to approve submitting the Guidelines of the General Plan for Urban Planning on public information.
From there, a 2 months period with the guidelines on public information will be opened and the process of Citizen Participation will begin.
Out of this debate, the Advancement of the General Plan for Urban Planning will emerge.