Advance review of La Laguna PGO

In the month of November last year 2008, CPPA participated in the drafting of the revised General Plan of San Cristobal de La Laguna, specifically in the planning phase for Advancement of Full Adaptation to revised 1/2000 Territory Canary and Full Adaptation to the Law 19/2003 General Management Guidelines and Turismo.Nuestro team was responsible for drafting the proposed management of urban Bajamar, Punta del Hidalgo, War and Tejina Valley. These proposals came after an earlier phase Urban Information and Diagnosis, which detected the existing problem in each of these cores laguneros. Currently these proposals are on public exhibition period and public consultation. These days they are holding meetings in each of the cores to explain the document and review management proposals raised. This is the link where you can view the document in its entirety Progress:Advance General Plan de La Laguna

For the core Punta del Hidalgo alternatives arise regarding the following topics:

- Management options for agricultural peninsula Punta.The existing large agricultural area in Punta occupies more than 90 hectares of land and is partially cultivated with banana plantations and greenhouses. This space forms a strategic location for the incorporation of recreational sports facilities could be supplemented with new tourist accommodation. Turn has raised the option of encouraging agricultural activity in the area, implementing tourism establishments linked to agriculture.

Alternative 2: Tourist establishments linked to agriculture
- Intervention in the neighborhoods of La Hoya and The Homician. The goal is to treat the neighborhoods of La Hoya and El Homicián since its structure suffers from certain aspects morfotipológica ending to define its urban. Both present difficulties of access, housing quality, endowments, etc..
Views from The Homician

To Low tide studied the following aspects:

-Improvements to the existing road structure. Bajamar core accessibility presents some problems associated with the absence of cross suitable for access to the central, roads with insufficient section for traffic along with a remarkable lack of parking that disproportionately affects users of the natural pools summer. This requires improvements to the current road network or creating a new variant to the TF-13 South.

- Basic proposals in the palm of Low Tide. For this large area south of the town of Bajamar alternatives arise as microparque creating an environmental theme or incorporating a recreational sports facility character that could be complemented by tourist establishments alojativos.

Alternative 3: Generating a recreational sporting facility
- Port infrastructure in Low Tide and The Point. Contemplate deployment options port infrastructure in the Northeast coast of La Laguna (comprising of Low tide coastal fronts and Punta del Hidalgo).

In Tejina proposed these discussion topics:

- Management of singular residential areas. It includes the addition of two vacant areas, one north and one south of Tejina, they have enough surface dimension to conform as unique areas. For location and insertion in the urban, must have global use residential; however, its size and make it desirable urban function arising basic options for management, unlike other parts whose small size vacancy ordering schemes force the.

- Spatial unique area south edge of Tejina. Among Tejina and Tegueste, in the municipality of La Laguna, there are still undeveloped land that acquire a special strategic value for the auction and urban conformation of both cores. The thematic scope is defined exactly for this border area treated as a unique area of ​​Tejina for which can be raised basic management alternatives. The alternatives are defined by the global use to apply in this area among them tertiary mixed use, Industrial and agricultural.

To Valle de Guerra these alternatives include:

-Improvements to the existing road structure. The objective is to evaluate the new elements that could be introduced to improve road infrastructure of Valle de Guerra. We propose new ways north, South and even in the field this nucleus central semivacante. The development of these pathways or not is defined by the urban growth model chosen.

Alternative 3. Creating new road network in the core areas of Valle de Guerra. Via linked to reserve free space for parking, comfortable bicycle lanes and pedestrian circulation.
- Spaces of centrality. In this section we study the possibilities to equip War Valley structuring axis of the core economic activity.

-New production. This theme aims to raise the various options for the management of a territory to the kernel entry that could house production activities, contributing significantly to the development of Valle de Guerra. For this study the possibility of holding a new exhibition ground east of Valle de Guerra where mixed uses could be located tertiary, industrial or agricultural uses high production.

In addition to the issues identified for each core alternatives have been studied delimitation and kernel extension, to determine the most appropriate growth model.

Extension and delimitation of urban core Tejina

1 Advancing comment to PGO review of La Laguna