His office did not take more than the minute we were asked vote of the 12 directors were present, being absent 10 of the 22 making up. Once again
notes with shame, that the State of Chile is at the mercy of the dictates of the market, relegating the political scene civic organizations.
Intervention Citizen Network for ÑUÑOA:
Santiago, August 16, 2007
Dear Sirs and Ladies of Council the Regional Environmental Commission Metropolitan authorities present, on behalf of Red Ciudadana by Nuno, representing more than 10,000 ñuñoínos, is that they do this as follows:
Today is not a happy day either for ñuñoínos Ñuñoa today concludes a process that from its inception has been impregnated vices, technical incompetence and negligence by local authorities, literally giving back to those supposed to represent, its people, who suffer, our children and grandchildren, from the irresponsibility of those in the urban and social management of the commune.
civic organizations may speak frankly, we are not constrained by an institutional policy framework that stopped us in our reporting, even as the country has seen, the promised citizen representation has steadily become more and more relegated to the Stage national when taking important decisions for their future.
Our struggle is to defend the common good, that which lies from the heart of a community, identity and character. And also how it is projected into the future.
Therefore we will use this space to try to describe from the perspective of citizens aware, even in the latter instance, the serious situation that finds itself today Nunoa and to what extent the current draft Communal Regulating Plan amendment will have a detrimental effect on quality of life of all ñuñoínos.
Ñuñoa suffers from inexplicable paradox, although it has recently been awarded the borough a better quality of life for a study of governance has been at the same time seized with a violent disturbance of urban equilibria for the past 5 years, through the policies themselves edilicias incentives to real estate investment, delivering, which plunder, to make of it what market indicators dictate.
To which we call attention to regional public authorities, who are responsible for determining and regulating the environmental impacts, such projects will have on the population of a municipality, in pursuit of sustainable development Metropolitan Region, as expressed by the current government guidelines.
no mistake when the mayor presents this proposal as a liberal solution to the urban crisis Ñuñoa because only proposes to restrict the heights to less than 29% of its territory and decimated by the real estate business. But unfortunately, we have been behind this drama, we have been giving it much the same way, with height restrictions or not, there are all kinds of subterfuge, at central and regional urban regulations that ensure fold the heights of local urban planning.
In short, the PRC proposal in consideration, not amend the course of the current urban crisis Ñuñoa, but the imprisonment and worse. As investment moves property from the devastated city center and the edges of the community, ensuring a new wilderness area for the conduct of its business. Therefore, the latter in no way is responsible for the catastrophic situation that the same administration that now governs us the lead.
This proposal keeps intact the main structural lines of the territory of the commune, in headroom. Opens new areas of urban renewal and even more current releases. And very new and huge portions of the edges of their territory, setting the strange figure of a walled commune, as if it were the confines of a medieval city.
be declared, first, that the proposal encourages Ñuñoa needs continue to absorb new population, but all we ask on what basis can make such decisions if it were never made for population studies to date, after the very fast destruction-construction process of the districts of the municipality? Indeed, Lords and Ladies of the Metropolitan Environmental Commission, this is a project blindly.
is why it impresentable ñuñoínos for the regional authorities would allow the mayor to limit the study only one Declaration Environmental Impact Assessment (DIA), which avoids the environmental impact studies, the results must, by law, subject to the public. That would certainly not go unpunished left as a proposal, as it is today.
Given the seriousness of the matters at issue here is that we ask the following questions and request to be answered today during this session of the Council of the Regional Committee of the Metropolitan Environment:
1. Who will take responsibility for a municipality as Ñuñoa into an irreversible process of collapse of their urban structures?
2. Where are the concrete proposals in this PRC in terms of new public facilities, landscaping, increased traffic volume and sewage systems and drinking water, for a projected population at three times the current 5 years from now?
3. Who will take the high social cost that is imposing the expulsion of large sectors of the population most vulnerable of Providencia, Santiago towards the periphery of its replacement by sector in social ascension, coming mainly from regions?
4. Who will take the serious environmental pollution and traffic congestion that will be produced due to high rates motorized Ñuñoa will cross the street?
5. Who will assume the mass loss of particular tree because of the demolition of residential property Ñuñoa?
6. And finally, who will take the irreversible loss of cultural and historical heritage will be wiped from the face of the earth result of this myopic and shortsighted management building industry, of that municipality, which is where the passing of the years, the legacy landmark of the best planners and architects who have ever had the country?
Therefore, is it's a day for Ñuñoa unfortunate, because today is not in your hands to decide their fate, and puts it in front of a perverse choice. Because if the PRC was passed today in the regional bodies of the COREMA, is pave the way for them to open their borders, with all the negative consequences described above and on the other hand, if approved, would become the former PRC, which would lead to the definitive destruction of the historic districts of the commune.
What will ultimately decide for this suffering Ñuñoa?
Under these conditions, we request a special political will by the metropolitan government, as to not approve the proposal to amend Comprehensive Ñuñoa PRC and to extend the period of freezing permits building the whole territory of the commune, in the hope that ñuñoínos themselves determine, after a village referendum, a solution to the current urban and social crisis Ñuñoa.
This process is already underway and plans to meet all requirements of the law, so that in early December 2007, Ñuñoa to rule democratically, by way of a community referendum on what will be the future of the community.
