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The project Urkupamba asheslocated on the slopes of the Pichincha volcano and which became a trend after the alluvium that devastated the sectors of La Comuna and La Gasca, lost the urban planning metropolitan license (LMU) granted on June 20, 2020 by the North Zonal Administration (AZN) Eugenio Espejo. The same administration issued a new resolution on February 4, 2022 with which the license is extinguished.
According to this document, which bears the electronic signature of Gina Yánez, administrator of the North Zone, the Directorate of Management and Territory is available “cancel the computer records and corresponding books” to the license in question.
In addition, it indicates “leave safe the rights that the Constitution and the law grant to nature and to the inhabitants of the DMQ, to fully respect their existence and guarantee them against the negative effects of natural or man-made disasters through risk prevention, disaster mitigationthe recovery and improvement of social, economic and environmental conditions, with the aim of minimizing the condition of vulnerability”.
Through a statement, the Municipality of Quito emphasized that the favorable license, which was granted to the project in June 2020, was during the management of former mayor Jorge Yunda.
“In 2019, the Environment Secretariat of the Municipality of Quito determined that the location of the aforementioned project was in an ecological protection zone and that no type of project could be developed; Despite this, the former mayor Jorge Yunda violated the norm and granted the permits for its development, to the detriment of the residents of the area and the protective forest, which constituted an attack on the security of the city of Quito, “says the statement. official, posted on social networks.
The June 2020 license was declared null and void in June 2021, by the same zonal administration. Then, in December 2021, the Metropolitan Attorney’s Office, by an appeal for review filed by the company promoting the ash heap, reversed the last decision and reactivated the license in favor of the project. Now it is invalid again.
Andrés Carrasco, manager of Urkupamba, confirmed to EL UNIVERSO that this Friday afternoon he received in his mail the resolution that annuls the LMU. He rejected the measure and anticipated that will appeal to the appropriate authorities. For him, the issue fell into a political struggle between Yunda and the current mayor, Santiago Guarderas.
some sectors blame the ash pit for the alluvium on January 31, which, so far, has left 28 dead, according to figures from the Municipal Security Secretariat. However, the mayor himself Guarderas assured that Urkupamba had no relation to the tragedy in La Gasca and La Commune.
On Friday morning, several councilors and officials from the AZN, as well as from the Metropolitan Potable Water and Sanitation Company (EPMAPS) and the Environment Secretariat, went to the property to carry out an inspection. Outside, on Occidental Avenue, a group of residents from the surrounding neighborhoods protested against the project.
Other rejection concentration It happened in the afternoon, at the intersection of Occidental and Mariana de Jesús avenues, north of the city, promoted by the Union of Neighborhoods. This organization brings together inhabitants from at least eight sectors that are opposed to the development of Urkupamba, since they consider that it represents a risk for the slopes of Pichincha and the community. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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