Junts per Reus will bring to Friday's plenary a motion for the City Council to begin drafting a new Municipal Urban Planning Plan. The proposal suggests activating the process with two closed deadlines, six months for technical services to draft a document of bases and strategic objectives, and three months to present a detailed calendar of all phases to the plenary.
The initiative starts from a premise that the training places at the center of the local urban planning debate. The group maintains that Reus continues to be organized with a PGOUM approved in 1999, while demanding that the new planning incorporate criteria related to mobility, health, and climate adaptation.
Junts per Reus gives six months to draft the bases of the new POUM
The motion that the municipal group will defend demands from the town hall's technical services the drafting of an initial document that sets the bases and strategic objectives of the future planning. In addition, it claims that the council detail in three months the complete project calendar along with the planned budgetary and technical resources.
The text also asks that future work take advantage of the analyses and diagnoses already prepared in the advancement of the 2012 POUM. Junts per Reus proposes that reuse to avoid duplication and higher economic cost during processing.
Teresa Pallarès, spokesperson for Junts per Reus and leader of the opposition, frames the proposal within a change of focus on municipal urban planning.
"Today urbanism no longer consists solely of ordering streets or growth sectors, but of defining how we want to live, move, and coexist" - Teresa Pallarès, spokesperson for Junts per Reus and leader of the opposition
The spokesperson adds that the new POUM must place quality of life, urban cohesion, the connection between neighborhoods, and people's health at the center of planning. With this approach, the group links the revision of the urban planning model to decisions that will affect the coming decades.
The group asks to recover the progress of 2012 and open citizen participation
The motion also incorporates the opening of a citizen participation process. Junts per Reus demands that entities, residents, and the city's economic fabric participate in urban design.
Joan Carles Gavaldà, councilor of the group, places mobility and climate adaptation among the arguments to accelerate the change of planning.
"Sustainable mobility and resilience to climate change are no longer complementary issues, but rather backbone axes of any modern city" - Joan Carles Gavaldà, councilor
Gavaldà also defends that the starting point should not be a new document from scratch, but the update of the draft prepared in 2012. In its formulation, the starting point involves reviewing the POUM Draft of 2012 to activate the process immediately.
Junts per Reus maintains that the current Municipal General Urban Planning Plan has become exhausted and obsolete. That urban planning document, which remains in effect in the city, was approved in 1999.