The damage of the superisles is already visible
Ada Colau must tell us if it is true or not that the overall cost of the Eixample supervilla is above 700 million euros
It is not necessary to speculate on the consequences of the Eixample supervilla, because realities of a much smaller entity already make it clear what their effects and damages are on our urban fabric. thediscrepancieson the use plan for the superilla of Sant Antoni and its surroundingsbetween the Commons and the PSC is much more than a bickering between parties.
In reality, it is the emergence of the background problem that a superilla entails: the distortion and dysfunction of the economic activity of the economic base of the territory directly affected and its area of influence. Because as you see a Sant Antoni, the superilla promotes a certain type of activity (bars, restaurants, leisure spaces, shops dedicated to very selective aspects, vegan, fashion, etc.) and displaces trade and neighborhood activity.
It is not a new fact, it is the problem that has been registered for yearsCarrer Enric Granados, despite being just a pedestrian path without any greenery. The colonization and transformation of the street has been extraordinary and today it is full of bars and restaurants.
The City Council intends to correct these distortions withthe use plan,that is to say, with restrictions on the opening of certain businesses and economic activities. Precisely the discrepancies between the two government parties in the case of Sant Antoni come from the intensity of these prohibitions. If they extend far across the territory and are very wide, they limit economic activity. But if they occupy a small space and address few aspects, then they do not have the capacity to fully correct the impact of the super island.
In short, of course the solution of the Commons of Colau due to the negative transformations caused by its urban model is the restrictive use plan, which means the liquidation of the free market and moving to a planned and centralized urban economy.
If the Eixample supervilla is carried out, this central planning operation will be necessary to carry it out throughout what is today the great central space of the Cerdà plan with the consequences and serious economic distortions, because it is clear that replacing the market with rigid regulation, together with the profound alteration of mobilitywill suffocate the economic dynamism that Eixample has today.
It will be the ruin for some and the destruction of the economic base of what has been Barcelona as a whole.
But it will not be enough to regulate economic activity, but it will also be necessary to intervene in ithousing regime. Because for the same reason, gentrification occurs in the green areas, an expulsion of the neighbors who are renting and their replacement mainly by residents, temporary or more permanent, the result of the tourist attraction of the city.
We would thus have serious problems as a result of the transformation, not only at street level, but in height on all floors that are not owned. It is evidence thatThe City Council is improvising in this important transformation.
You need to stop it and find out what the forecasts are about the activity and the homes as a result of what you want to do. As long as this does not happen, the superisles must stop and the green axes cannot continue to move forward, and what is being done in theCalle Consell de Centit must stop its works and restore its normality as a street in the Eixample.
When we know the bread that is given in the transformation, we can talk about it again. Talk about the consequences and also thecost of this transformation.
There is Colaumust tell us whether it is true or not that the overall cost of the Eixample superilla is above the700 million euros, as he must also explain to us before the elections which one he istram connection cost via Diagonal,who will be in charge of this management, if the current public company or Transports de Barcelona, and in this second case, what will we have to pay the company for rescuing the tram concession.
