The Madrid City Council will not be able to install cleaning cantons in green areas. The political parties will not enjoy the privilege of being approved to the public administration, to install their venues in plots destined for that use. And that double rectification, which means changing the urban planning norms of the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU), after, is the work of a lawyer who studied the 2023 agreement that changed the regulations, and concluded that “it was not fair.” Sleitary, he explains, was “a form of protest.” It’s called Javier Flores, he has “FOURTES”, Ironize about his 49 years, and after approaching the policy attracted by the UPyD of (from which he ended up disenchanted) and make his way of the hand of, that he was number two of the capital with, he argues that the public does not defend himself alone. And that sometimes he has to take a step forward.
“My work with Marta has greatly influenced. Absolutely everything,” he says about the reasons that led him to be stubborn with the City Council of Madrid, which presides. “We tend to have the idea of what politics is to enter a party, appear to the lists … And what goes!” “It is much more: from associationism, which is what I have met with Marta, to everything that has to do with foot citizens,” he argues. “After Marta from the Government [tras gobernar con Ahora Madrid hasta 2019]I said I wanted to continue doing things, within my greater or lesser reach. Because you pass around, you get in touch with a lot of people, and you don’t turn your face anymore. You can’t look elsewhere, “he argues. And he finishes:” We think that someone will always take care of the right thing, and it is not so. Sometimes you have to be yourself. The change proposed in the plan eliminated rights of citizens of Madrid. ”
Flores pleaded with the City Council and the Community of Madrid for multiple aspects of the modification of the PGOU. They have only proved him in a handful, as can be seen from the sentence published on Wednesday the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, and that collected the annulment of four points of the articles, including one that facilitated breaching the regulations of habitability in cases of transformation of premises to housing, being able to give the windows “to a patio with dimensions smaller than regulations”.
Thus, the victory of Flores has not been much less. But it does have practical effects, since the City Council has resigned to resort to it.
“Political parties will not effectively be located in plots with the qualification of public administration services,” acknowledges a spokesman for the area of urbanism, environment and mobility, directed by Borja Carabante, a trusted man of Mayor Martínez-Almeida. “And, indeed, cantons cannot be located in green areas,” adds this interlocutor, which states that at this time “there is no canton in the green zone.”
That is, according to the City Council, what Flores has achieved has been to close the door to a future possibility. That is why that of this lawyer is one of those partial victories that run the risk of going unnoticed: most of the almost four million inhabitants of Madrid will never know that thanks to him they have not put them in an area dedicated to their enjoyment and recreation one of the controversial new cleaning cantons, which so much reject, for example,.
How has flowers get to this? “With Rosa Díez is where I discovered politics, and I was frightened,” he recalls on the UPyD driver, a party of which he was a member of the Regional Executive and Secretary of Communication in Madrid, and Cuyas. “Rosa is an expert in political marketing, in winning votes, and that is very hard for people who arrive at politics with enthusiasm,” he adds. “Then you discover the way of making Manuela’s policy [Carmena]from Marta [Higueras]and it is something else: the vocation of service, always put in front of any electoral or personal interest the commitment of service. They are such different visions … “
New lawsuit with the City Council
Flores was an advisor to Public Affairs of Higueras, and became his chief of cabinet between November 2021 and May 2023. of his time at the City Council, where he went, retains an expert knowledge of urban planning regulations.
Although today he dedicates most of his work Pro bonus (altruistic) to the care of especially vulnerable population, already has the target on a new legal pulse with
“Almeida presumes a lot of legal certainty, but Madrid has a series of very serious background errors in urban planning regulations,” says this lawyer specialized in the field. “The first is that the ordination plans are not correctly published, which are the ones that say what can and what cannot be done on the ground,” he explains. “It’s as if someone publishing the circulation code had forgotten to publish the annex with the design of traffic signals,” he abounds. “It should be published in the Official Gazette, and not being it, it opens the door both to annul sanctions and licenses and projects that are based on urban regulations that are not fully published,” he says. And he warns: “There we will have news and news.”
