Magnifying glass on Martinelli era, zoning changes

Minister of Housing Mario Etchelecu said Monday, July 14. that the entity’s legal team institution will review, with a magnifying glass, each one of the zoning changes authorized in the last administration.. These collaborations will enable the ministry to give technical opinions that can lead to a reversal, he said.

 “Unfortunately it is not in the hands of the ministry to act against its own resolutions,” said Etchelecu at a press conference.
However, the Etchelecu. Said that the Ministry will support residents who have been affected by these changes in any legal action they undertake.
He said such changes include ones made in Ancón and Altos de Curundu.
In his view, in these two cases there were irregularities.
He also made it clear that, during the transition process, he asked members of the previous administration to halt pending requests for zoning changes. “We did not find any technical support justifying these changes in land use,” he said, adding that the irregularities are supported in a report of the Municipal Planning Bureau,