The Council of Local Agenda 21 has today approved the second draft of the Plan since this organization was founded in 2008 to improve environmental quality by promoting citizen participation.
The 2010-2011 Action Plan was developed with a high degree of compliance
Councilman Environment of the City of Lorca, Melchor Morales, has reported that the Council of Local Agenda 21 has met this morning to approve the draft Action Plan Local Agenda 21 for the period 2013-2020.
Morales stressed that "this is the second Action Plan adopted in 2008 since the establishment of Agenda 21 Local de Lorca".
The mayor stressed that "the first Action Plan for the years 2010-2011 was developed with a high degree of compliance, and now it is the turn of this new Action Plan is more ambitious both in their objectives and their timing ".
The mayor has said "The new plan covers a period of 7 years, from 2013 to 2020, because we want to make it a useful guide short, medium and long term, future-oriented and allows no time to develop projects that would be large impossible to execute. "
Councillor for the Environment stated that "the new action plan includes more than 200 proposals to improve the quality of life of Lorca, not only in the environmental area, but also others such as mobility, culture and participation citizen, but who agree to promote sustainable development of our municipality. "
Morales said that "these proposals have been developed by the Board of the Agenda, as well as neighborhood organizations and social lorquinas as Rabaleros Neighborhood Association or the Board Sustainable Mobility and Air Quality. Among these proposals are issues concerning the arrangement of streets, industrial development, improved sports facilities, enhancement of cultural facilities, and a long list of issues that matter to Lorca and affecting their quality of life. "
The Action Plan, which must be approved by the Local Government Board, includes "in addition to the list of actions, the timing of them, serving grades of urgency and need to ensure meaningful planning over time. We expect that a large number of proposals from the Plan are addressed by Lorca because his character can become vehicles for the development of our town after the earthquake of May 11, 2011, "announced Morales.
The mayor stressed that "through this Action Plan, as with all actions taken by the Local Agenda 21 Lorca, encourage citizen participation in Lorca, one of the major objectives of the Municipal Government Team because we believe that Lorca must participate actively in shaping our city among all of creating the future Lorca's neighbors want. "
The Lorca Local Agenda 21 with the participation of more than thirty collective municipality.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca