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The full government team to explain that "we are presenting a sketch to remodel the Garden of Los Patos" (18/06/2009)

The government team to complete, led by Mayor Juan Romero and the mayor of Town Planning, José Espadas, sorry this morning to the local media to give all the information available on the Garden of Los Patos.

Both the mayor, Juan Romero Canovas, as the Town Planning, Pepe Swords, have clarified that this is a reworking of the garden, in any case remove it.

They have also indicated that they have held several meetings with opposition political groups, neighbors of the garden of The Ducks, with the Merchants Association, the Social Economic Council and the environmental association APEDSE in order to present a sketch, and that there is not a specific project, precisely in order to carry out all the possible and achieve a final draft and agreed.

"Not only have we held these meetings, but we have offered to hold all the meetings that we requested for the same purpose, to submit an outline on which to rely, to gather input and develop a final draft and agreed," he told the Swords morning.

"No one wants to remove anything, you want to remodel, you want to improve," added the mayor.

In these meetings, team officials indicated to the Government, came to a unanimous agreement on which is based the sketch on which it is working: the convenience of single platform, the maintenance of existing trees and sources The Ducks and Bastarreche, these aspects are shared even by the Association APEDSE in the brief submitted to the Council.

As for other aspects that may be reflected in the project, as have been meeting and offering the City Council to study the collective observations of Alhama citizens might wish for.

From there, they added, there has been talk of installing pergolas if deemed appropriate and space is left with little shade.

Moreover, municipal officials indicated that what it is to improve a garden that is what we all yearn built in the 50's and no longer exists.

In this garden was a performance at the 80, which as a result led the current garden and has since deteriorated mainly on the pavement, and where vegetation has grown and pergolas are invading the area of pines that her day was small, but now give more spare and need more space.

It also noted the government team presented the sketch was developed primarily in 2006 and is consistently below the atrium of St. Lazarus, the aim is to integrate all the space.

In this sketch, not only kept the trees, but gives it more space and consequently more land, with tree wells about 16 meters.

For its part, the mayor of Alhama, Juan Romero, accompanied by the entire government team, clarified that this is not a personal initiative, but an initiative of all the government team that has the sole intention of improving our town, above all to improve an area in the center of town and whose improvement is being demanded for years.

The two city leaders also alluded to a survey conducted in 2006 prior to the drafting of the sketch of the remodeling.

In this survey, residents overwhelmingly advocated keeping the icons above and noted the need to remodel the garden.

Also, the government team at the possibility of simply carrying out a "facelift" or develop a makeover, chose the latter option because they understand that the Garden of The Ducks deserve to look with the splendor that citizens demand.

On the budget of the initiative, pointing out that there is an item that provides the performance, but as yet there is a final draft is unknown what the specific amount.

It also clarifies that it is not an isolated action because there are now running more than 11 construction projects worth over five million euros, some of them in other gardens of the town, as regards the criticism of the priority of the flow when can address other needs, given the good situation of municipal finance, the Council can undertake the project without problems which also has a grant, and this without neglecting other investments that are being developed and no unattended other general interest requirements .

In short, the government team showed its full decision to keep the Garden of Ducks with their emblems, for what they are looking for contributions that enrich the remodeling project and definite improvement.

Not surprisingly, indicated that the municipal technical team is already developing several sketches in which they have integrated some of the submissions received.