SEREMI of Housing orders Municipality of La Florida to approve real estate project in El Panul.
On June 7, the order from the SEREMI of Housing and Urban Development, Marisol Rojas, arrived at the Municipality of La Florida to approve the real estate project at Fundo El Panul, located in the precordillera of the district.
This instruction came because the Director of Municipal Works, Agustín Pérez, had rejected for the third time the project to subdivide and build 1,370 housing units, submitted by the real estate company Gesterra on the fundo belonging to Vicente Navarrete — who purchased it from the State during the final years of Pinochet's regime for the sum of three million pesos at the time.
The municipality's main reasons for maintaining this rejection have been the high risks of landslides and mass removal associated with construction in this area of ravines — with a significant slope and located above the Ramón fault — which clearly poses a danger to the lives of both the current and future population of the district, as was the case with the 23 La Florida residents who died in the 1993 landslide. This view is unanimously shared by the Municipal Council, which mandated the Director of Works, the Urban Planning Advisor, and the Legal Division to maintain their position before the SEREMI — and committed to conducting a risk study of the piedmont in order to amend the Municipal Zoning Plan.
However, taking advantage of the municipality's delicate situation — without a sitting mayor since Jorge Gajardo's resignation — the government continues to pressure in favor of real estate expansion over the lush forests of La Florida's piedmont.
The organizations of Red por la Defensa de la Precordillera call on citizens to contribute to the struggle to preserve our heritage and the rights of the territory's inhabitants to decide what kind of urban development we want — by attending the next Municipal Council session on Wednesday, June 15, to express their rejection.
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