For more than fifteen decades, this section has tried to propose concepts and ideas that help the urban and territorial development of our canton and suburban settlements, as well as the permanent improvement of the provision of services that the County is obliged to provide every day. Constitution and law.

For example, I have asked more than once that Guayaquil be seriously considered as a metropolitan area, not because of how nice it would sound, but because of the importance that its creation would contain from the point of view of territorial planning. Within the framework of that concept, I also insisted on the need to decentralize the management of the canton. Just to illustrate the importance of the latter, it is quite inefficient for a citizen living on the coast or in the extreme south of the city to have to go to the city center to pay a fee or fine for building without a permit.

The Citizen Security Corporation would become a municipal public company and be called ‘Segura’

Blanca López was elected as the new deputy mayor of Guayaquil

We also insisted on the need to codify the regulations. One must have lost the memory of how many times the regulations related to public roads, billboards, spatial planning, urbanism, etc. have been reformed, resulting in an intellectual, technological and patient challenge to be able to update them with the current regulations, except that the municipal portal is quite good when it comes to transparency of information related to regulations.

On other occasions, we have considered it important to question and criticize what is happening in most municipalities in the country, where there are excessive municipal taxes that have earned the dignified punishment of the Constitutional Court, throwing them out of the legal system (declared unconstitutional) for being openly confiscatory.

Success in its management will benefit all of us who were born or live in Guayaquil…

Likewise, taking European countries and especially Eastern countries as models, we believe that the creation of massive plans for low-income rental housing is an idea that must be technically and legally analyzed. For example, through the formation of public-private alliances in which the Municipality hands over the land to the developer (a qualified partner) so that the developer in turn builds on it at his own expense and risk, but with the financial consideration of managing the bank of apartments he builds and which he will be able to use with a concession during a certain period of years, renting out the mentioned residential units at values ​​determined annually by the respective utility company.

Achilles’ chair

My best wishes to Mayor Aquiles Álvarez and his team. Success in his administration will benefit all of us who were born or live in Guayaquil as if it were his hometown. We know that the challenge is huge and that there will be no few problems, but we believe that with youth and enthusiasm, together with the desire and desire to move Guayaquil forward, they can build that new city that we all want to see and feel. Prosperous, safe, habitable, respectful of the environment, and above all self-sufficient and independent, open-minded and supportive in the crucial moments that history has imposed on it. (OR)