Referring to the experience accredited by the CPPA team on urban planning, include the work done in reviewing the overall planning Tenerife municipality of San Juan de la Rambla. This revision addresses the requirement to have a management tool tailored to the needs and actual characteristics of the municipality, something that presents great difficulties due to its peculiar topography and historical existence of a relaxation in the management and planning discipline.
The new law established the requirement territory of adaptation and revision of the current planning as a way mandatory General Plan, due to the passage of more than a decade since the adoption of the Standards Planning Subsidiary, whose elements territorial model management and have been superseded by the strong growth experienced. That is why the main objective of this work is the revision and adaptation of the current planning Planning Act and Canary Island Natural Areas (Legislative Decree 1/2000 of 8 May) as well as Management Act Guidelines General Guidelines and Tourism of the Canary (Law 19/2003 of 14 April) and the current Management Plan Insular de Tenerife (finally adopted by Decree 150/2002 of 16 October, onwards, IOP Tenerife).
CPPA begins his work in the management of this municipality with the wording of Advance Planning and Initial Approval for the period between 2005 and 2006. Finally the latter document was not processed by the municipal administration.
Back in the year 2009, restarts the legal process to form the general plan of the municipality where CPPA composing a new Advance Planning Document which is approved by the full City. Then we continued with the procedure laid down resulting Initial Approval document which already defines the detailed planning of the municipality. This document has not yet been processed.
Aerial photo of the town from the coast (Google Earth)
The municipality of San Juan de la Rambla is characterized by suffering a slow process of transformation in recent years. Has been gradually moving from an economy closely linked to the primary sector to start developing service activities related to population growth.
In San Juan de la Rambla are four distinct urban: San Jose in the mediocrities and San Juan de la Rambla, Waters and El Rosario, on the coast.
Old picture of the core of San Juan de la Rambla
In urban areas concentrated approximately 65% population, due to the dispersion characteristic of the municipalities edificatoria north of the island.
The core is San Jose, it is the larger and larger population. Likewise, in this core are most endowments and economic activities.
San Jose nucleus tends to grow in all directions along the existing road, while coastal communities are bounded by the coast and Tigaiga Escarpment so that its growth can only be parallel to the coast. Currently the three cores are separated by vast agricultural areas but the trend is coming to join.
Structural Planning (Advance Planning Document, 2009)
From the analysis and diagnosis made was posed the management strategy.
In the coastal area, comprising the nuclei of San Juan de la Rambla, Waters and El Rosario established a series of spaces to ensure a possible moderate growth development through to try to clog the gaps existing urban.
On the other hand in the area of the middle (San Jose) the sort key consisting of the existing core compaction occupying vacant spaces a series of continuing the existing road network to improve accessibility.
In reference to the management of road infrastructure fundamental aspect is the incorporation of the island ring stretch through this municipality, layout made by the Highways of the Canary Islands, taking into account the area of topographical, requiring the need to run several tunnels and bridges. Moreover incorporated include the connection path between San Jose and La Guancha as an extension of the existing promenade in order to ensure better accessibility between the two neighboring municipalities.
Participants in the drafting of this document:
Federico Garcia Barba (chief architect)
Ralf Veyrat Palenzuela (arquitecto)
Patricia González Fernández (architect)
Jorge Mosquera Paniagua (arquitecto)
Hasse gislaine (architect)
Hernandez severe Fe (geographer)
Victor Gallo (ldo. Physical sciences)
Ricardo Mesa Coello (biologist)
Carlos Diaz Rivero (economist)
