Nolberto Salinas, a lawyer and urban planning consultant, along with neighborhood leaders from Ciudad Salit, visited Lautero Street, a dilapidated local road of stones and mounds of earth, which serves as a connecting route between Ciudad Salit, Santa Ana de Chena and the Hug. of Maipú, whose improvement and signage is a desire of the inhabitants of these towns. Below is the lawyer’s story with his views on this situation..
The Law of Contributions to the Public Space and the Law of Mining Royalties appear to be the legal and budgetary ways for Maipú to receive resources that help improve Maipú’s connectivity.
Maipú is a commune with an area of 135 km2including Urban areas, urban sprawl and rural areas. Urban areas were not exempt from lack of maintenanceWeek after week, situations are reported, accidents, traffic jams, floods and other deficits that make road connectivity complex.
So when there is a lack of resources to invest in road improvement works on public roads, it is quite difficult to think that through fiscal resources it is possible to achieve improvements on local (private) roads.
Let us remember that the neighborhood roads These are restricted use roads that serve the neighbors of the adjacent plots, The normal thing is that on roads of this type, their maintenance depends on their owners.. It is likely that roads like those on Lautaro Street were born as a connection between Parceros of adjacent properties., But for many years, Lautro Street has been used by drivers who need to move from place to place within the commune., Especially when it comes to the connection between the satellite city, Santa Ana de Chena and El Abrezo. Entire families seek to find a route that shortens the precious time needed to travel from one point to another in the same area of the commune.
Getting to know the commune, a tour of its grounds, is the key to understanding the needs of its residents. Therefore together with the Board of Directors of the Satellite City Neighborhood Council We started looking for solutions that help improve road connectivity in the area.
Lautre is not a street that only serves the farmers, on the contrary, it serves a huge number of families which travel daily and connect through it to two important neighborhoods of Maipú. That is why we are already making efforts, collecting background information and soon we will work on studying the legal and budgetary regulations that enable the administration of roads in the Ministry of Public Works.
We have already found several opinions of the Comptroller’s Office, which allow the Ministry of Public Works to intervene in the improvement of internal roads or local roads, as long as their owners (parceleros) undertake to transfer the essential strips of land for the benefit of the treasury to connect or give continuity to public roads, which in this case will connect one point to another in the commune .
A few months ago it fully entered into force Mining Royalties Lawwhich allocates an additional three billion pesos to our commune, added to this the resources that will eventually be provided from the Donations to the Public Space Law and the corresponding budgetary corrections set by me The budget law.
We are sure that both the community authority and the regional authorities will know how to handle and quickly resolve the deficits in connecting the roads that affect our neighborhoods.
God Ciudad Satellite Neighborhood Councilin collaboration with local professionals And the Department of Highways will search Timely solutions.
