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The open cases against the Barcelona City Council government team led by Ada Colau are piling up.
The Barcelona Prosecutor's Office has opened proceedings after a complaint filed by the Salvem Barcelona platform against the Consistory for the project of the so-called 'superblock' of the Eixample, an initiative that wants to transform Consell de Cent, Rocafort, Comte Borrell and Girona streets into hubs greener and whose works are scheduled to begin this June.
The platform considers that the municipal government could have committed a crime against land use planning by approving this project without the necessary modification of the General Metropolitan Plan.
Salvem Barcelona believes that the reforms have a strong impact on businesses, residents and mobility in the city, which is why they believe that the government team did not follow the appropriate administrative procedures.
For this reason, they demanded its suspension until the end of the investigation.
The project is part of 'Superilla Barcelona', one of Colau's star proposals with which he plans to gain 58,000 square meters for pedestrians in this term, since they consider that it would allow the city's current Eixample model to be preserved.
After learning of the complaint, the second deputy mayor of Barcelona, Janet Sanz, lamented the "clear political will" of the Salvem Barcelona platform.
"It is not the first time that there is a clear political will from certain sectors to paralyze the transformations that the Barcelona City Council is carrying out," he said in statements to journalists, also referring to the appeal that Foment de Treball announced that it would file with the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC) against the works of Via Laietana.
From the Consistory it is ensured that the complaint does not paralyze the works that will begin in June.
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