The association of commercial axes requested the precautionary measure arguing economic risk in the face of a possible sentence against the reform
Justice guarantees the continuity of the works that Barcelona City Council has undertaken to reform Via Laietana. This has been ruled by the court number 14 of the contentious administrative in a car dated April 25 in response to the appeal filed by Barcelona Oberta.
The association of commercial hubs claimed as a precautionary measure that the road reform work be stopped in the contentious administrative appeal that it presented on March 23 against the resolution of the city council of February 15 in which the reform draft was definitively approved. of the street.
The consistory presented a written opposition and the judge has rejected the arguments of Barcelona Oberta to demand that the works stop: the possibility that a future judgment will annul the plan when it is already finished. According to the association, this could have two consequences: suppose a great economic cost for the city council and that the remodeling is not reversible, so that Via Laietana cannot return to its previous situation.
The judge replies that these situations could not occur in any case at the same time, because if the reform is irreversible, the city council would not have to pay anything to reverse it. It also emphasizes that in any case, if there is financial risk in the event of a possible sentence adverse to the urban plan, it would not be for the complainant associationwhich he indicates as another argument for not accepting the precautionary measure requested, that is, the stoppage of works on Via Laietana.
Discrepancies
The reaction to the street works caused discrepancies in Barcelona Oberta at the beginning of the year, when the Via Laietana Association abandoned this group for disagreeing with the allegations presented against the reform. The president of the Via Laietana association, David González Deltell, explained the reasons for his departure in a letter to President of Barcelona Oberta, Gabriel Jené.
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“Barcelona Oberta decided to prepare and present allegations to the Barcelona City Council regarding the planned reform of Via Laietana without our prior review, our association being the main affected and interested in this reform,” González wrote, adding: “We cannot share the content of these allegations because it is not going into details of the reform, but rather they are allegations that go against carrying it out & rdquor ;.
Barcelona Oberta, which brings together more than twenty central and tourist axes, believes that the project makes accessibility by car too difficult to the commercial epicenter of the city.