suffocation A VILLAGE HALL VERSAILLES |
Mayor Juan Carlos | Guevara Ostos |
UPTC "CHOKING" A 40 FAMILIES SOGAMOSEÑAS
urbanization in "Versailles" feels official neglect
In 1955, the mayor of the priest Gustavo Suarez Child, 40 families never imagined that in seeking to realize the dream of homeownership would end become a real headache.
This is referred Juan Bautista Varela, president of the community action board of urbanization "Versailles", a Barranquilla, when Sogamoso met, fell in love with this land and his family decided to make " Sun City "his second hometown.
The fighting has been intense from the moment when their self-initiated social housing in an area neighboring the site of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia-Uptc Sogamoso-Sectional, which by then was already interested in purchasing this property. To circumvent the conflict of interest emerged, the May 18, 1955 signed an act of commitment from the dean of the Uptc Sogamoso, Pascual Fonseca, and the representative of the self, Edilberto Rodríguez Sierra with Mayor Gustavo Suárez Niño-who worked as guarantor, to determine who got the farm.
In one of the highlights of this commitment, the engineer Fonseca Pascual vowed to "advance all efforts conducive to the acquisition of funds for the purchase of the land where it is now forward the program of self", specifying that if the first of July of that year (1955) has failed to ensure a serious prospect of negotiation, "the co-owners of the program of self continue to develop their project."
At that time the guarantor of this commitment, the Mayor Niño Suarez, pledged to work with teams and expedite the process to legalize the program of self, if this instance was reached, as evidently occurred because the university did not succeed.
The December 28, 1995, the then head of the municipality's Urban Planning Division, Edilberto Alvarez Naranjo, in a note to the representative of the self, Edilberto Sierra, he states that 2B Street South between carriage 14 and 16 is projected into the road plan and reminds them that to date the section between the race 14 and the Private "Versailles" has not done the assignment of routes to the town, a circumstance which with the passage of time was supplied.
On 10 August 1999 the inhabitants of "Versailles" asked the then head of City Planning, Aida Luz Ballesteros, were taken into account in the Land Use Plan (POT) for the projection of the pathways that affect the development, which is known as they say, "the surrounding properties belong to the Uptc and Mr. Hernando Alvarez Chaparro, who have never been interested or in accordance with the opening track" approach that so far remains, what has made these families live in a place to only have one path.
Mayor Ostos unresponsive
By Decree 055 of March, which declared the absence of the restriction of public space reserved for the POT posed to neighboring properties to the Uptc, the inhabitants of urbanization "Versailles" say they have been hit hard by Mayor Juan Carlos Ostos, who listened to the demands put by the Conciliation Commission of the town council in the statement filed on April 8, nor has it responded to a right of petition which was filed in his office on 11 February.
when we expect a good neighbor - the Uptc, they found "an unwanted neighbor," which met in attitude 2007 when about 200 students, led by the now-elected House Representative, Carlos Amaya, came to the village "Versailles" in a threatening tone to notify them that "we will not steal a meter of land."
"We're not pretending to take anything away from anybody, we are only asking that the municipal administration to end the closure that we have been for lack of authority," said town council president, Juan Bautista Varela , recalling the series of challenges faced by the only path that is your community, as well as being close because the area did not yield Uptc rightful, so it was not possible to construct platforms. States that the right time Public Service Company was providing the refuse collection service once a week, because of the narrowness of the road. "Today we are paying twice a week, a car collector should enter into reverse. In this circumstance we are discriminated against taxi drivers do not serve us for the same reason, if a family emergency can present a tragedy for the same cause, "said community leader.
"Prison" where residents live in "Versailles" is dark, having found ways and neighboring properties to the Uptc as areas for institutional use, since the university purchased an estate of over 22 thousand square meters by 550 million pesos-that some relatives of the sellers claim that the deed of sale is flawed illegal ", is now become a new landfill site and an insecurity he has downloaded lots of debris that has served escampadero of vicious and pimps, thanks to which the end of 2009 there were three residential burglaries in the sector with losses millions. The Uptc Sogamoso is interested in buying the houses that make up the urbanization "Versailles" to develop their physical projects, but about community spokesman said none of the people are interested in sell their property and all they want is to "preserve the tranquility of our neighborhood, which for 15 years was set up as social housing with effort own work, with simplicity and respect that characterizes our rules-abiding citizens and respectful of the authorities. "Secretary of the community board, Martha Lopez did not hide his disappointment with the position of mayor Ostos, compared to other problems have led to their neighborhood, saying: "giving back to the community are not educated or future builds."